First New Town Design:
A missed opportunity to create spaces with greenery and much wider pavements where cars are guests - like every other major European capital?
Where are the trees, bollards, seats and sustainable drainage?
Lessons not being learned fast enough. 🧵
We know that without bollards we’ll have blocked pavements and years of costs from cracked expensive paving slabs (repair & injuries).
So why are bollards not in the design?
Otherwise we end up with another Elm Row, Leith Walk or Parliament Square
Why is parking deemed more important than outside space for Cafe Rouge, The Queens Arms or Cote?
Perhaps 40 lost tables?
In the centre of most other Northern European cities this would be timed loading access. Instead we have permanent car storage in a World Heritage site.
If @edinburgh_cc hits its 30% car mileage reduction targets, with almost no traffic on George Street & traffic filters planned on Mound - why is anything beyond the minimum carriageway width considered?
Particularly at junctions where pedestrians need space to cross.
Where are the zebra crossings that a low traffic environment should demand?
Why no continuous footways?
@LivingStreetsEd
If Castle St, Fredrick St don’t allow through traffic (no one can drive on Princes St) - why is there not space for trees, pavements or seating?
Buses can still get through.
Couldn’t there be outdoor seating rather than car parking - just like every other N. European Capital?
Where is the greenery?
🌳 Trees?
☔️ Sustainable drainage?
Why aren’t these as important as parking & filter lanes for this streetscapes’s future and mitigate climate change and create pleasant spaces?
Great thread from @andyheald
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