🚨SW20 on Tour 🚨
We took a trip.
Sometimes in Edinburgh its difficult to imagine a better future. We’re keen to show what might be possible.
Where did we go?
📍 Paris? Copenhagen? Amsterdam? ✈️
Nope….
…🚂 40 miles to the West: Glasgow!
It faces the same issues:
🏥⛑health & 💰inequality
📖legislation / TROs
🅿️🚗legacy of 60s / 70s planning
⛰🌦hills & weather
💰funding challenges
😷Covid affecting local business & more working from home.
But it has managed to deliver…
The South City Way!
Could this be #lanarkroad, Comiston Road, Portobello, Corstorphine or any Edinburgh street like Lothian Road, Gorgie or Newington? @best_edinburgh @LivingStreetsEd @EdinburghBUG @blackfordsafer1 @Cyclesouthedin @TrafficLow
glasgow.gov.uk/scw
Is it all about bikes? Nope.
A 20 minute community:
👍placemaking
👍public transport
👍low traffic side streets
👍safer floating parking
👍cars flowing well
👍pedestrian priority
👍thriving businesses
🔊 less noise, but still busy - hearing bird song 🐦 🎵
What’s remarkable is the diversity of users. Different ages, ethnicities & abilities, co-mingling in a thriving streetscape @LivingStreetsEd
Pedestrians, prams, bikes, disabled people, buses & drivers able to mix safely thanks to great accessible design - all at a slow pace.
Plus a willingness to trial and test.
Like at these protected junctions. 👍
🚨kerb nerd alert 🚨
Angled kerbs indicate changes in use & are safer for cycling.
Rougher sections indicate edges for floating parking.
Active pavements for 🚶♀️🦽 with a different level for 🚲
Floating bus stops were well used with higher boarding kerbs for accessibility 👀
Passengers able to exit floating parking safely onto a level surface. Same at bus stops. Accessible design.
Shows Edinburgh what’s possible: could we #improveNOTremove our schemes with this vision? @lmacinnessnp @adamrmcvey @cllrcammyday @KarenDoran3
Was it all outstanding? Nope.
Compromises in places - particularly towards the city
But consider the debates in Edinburgh about allowing parking in bike lanes, when with better, accessible designs we can imagine what could be if we #improveNOTremove #lanarkRoad schemes & others
Our local businesses need our support. So does our health.
This thriving Glasgow street, helps the community become more resilient, accessible, healthier & safer. Which is what our medics called for:
@lauramcw @now_its_nora @SuzyScarlett
What’s the impact of safe, accessible infrastructure?
👇 this:
@SW20Ed believes this could be the vision for #lanarkroad, Longstone but also elsewhere in SW Edinburgh @BalernoCC @currie_comm @JGBMCC @ColintonCC @Longstone_CC @craiglockhartCC @CV_Enterprise @ColintonAmenity
We can do it too. Locally for #lanarkroad we could build on the base we have, #ImproveNOTremove active travel measures for climate & health.
@NeilCllr @DenisDixonSNP @cathyfullerton @CllrScottArthur @ashleyannotate @davidfkey @gavincorbett @henderson_ricky @donaldwilson
Off the 🚂: the cold reality in Edinburgh:
😞 This disabled cyclist negotiated Fountainbridge’s hokey-cokey infrastructure
😞 🚗 illegally on zigzags, no🚶♀️ priority
😞then legal parking in 🚲 lanes
To coin new phrase: People make Glasgow miles better?
We can be better too
Cc’d:
@GMacdonaldSNP @joannaccherry @thecockburn @SarahBoyack @djohnsonmsp @lornaslater @POScotParl @FoysolChoudhury @farroutdelivers @WHALE_Arts @SpaceBroomhouse @cargobikemovmnt @SCOREscotland @Bridge8Hub @WOLCT @TransformScot @TS_Director @EdibleEstatesEd @CATRl0NA
Come talk about your vision for our community at our event tomorrow:
@cargobikemovmnt @LaidBackBikes @PathsforAll @SpokesLothian @CV_Enterprise @TheBikeStation @CyclingUKScot
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