@GMacdonaldSNP@joannaccherry This would be one of your safety concerns we’d hope you could work with us on. Under an ETRO the community could try & adapt a range of different measures to get this area prioritised for local families instead of racing cars. /1
Ripping everything out achieves zero & is regressive. The area outside your office ‘could’ be great for a signalised crossing and plenty empty space next to the pavement which could be used to create ‘place’, bike racks, planters, seats integrated into crossing design/ 2
Opportunity here to create better transition from Canal & WOL connections to pavement & cycle lanes. Bikes have to use pavement to reach connections, not great. Crossing here too perhaps? Redesign could bind in floating parking with permeable surface, planting to calm traffic/3
Great option for a proper pedestrian crossing here, loads of local folk & users use this route to Redhall Walled Garden, Redhall Allotments & to access local walking routes. Previously the tiny islands always blocked by parked cars. Let’s not go back to that /4
There is a poor access point opposite the junction with Kingsknowe Dr. Very poor sight lines when crossing here on foot/bike. More could be done here. Poor design. Popular crossing point to park though. Solution & improvements needed. /5
Much more could be done to all the side road junctions along Lanark Rd to give priority to pedestrians and cycles crossing them. /6
Opportunity here by bus stop area next to Kingsknowe golf course to allow extreme rainfall event floodwaters to drain onto golf course. /7
Crossing point from Hailes Grdns to Clovie network has poor site lines. We note a fully pedestrianised crossing is planned here as part of the West Edinburgh Link project which will be welcomed by all locally. /8
There is a huge need to take a serious look at a floating bus stop design with key stakeholders. A solution needs to found that shares risks appropriately in line with transport hierarchy & meets everyone’s needs./9 @EdinburghBUG@AccessPanelNet@LivingStreetsEd@SpokesLothian
Lanark Rd would be a great choice for including a properly studied bus design under an ETRO that could provide learning/insight building on evidence from Napier Uni analysis of Leith Walk ones previously. drscottarthur.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/edinbu… /10
There is much that can be learned from using Lanark Rd under ETRO which can be used to inform other schemes & for having a serious look at improving Colinton, Juni Green, Currie, Balerno & Kirknewton. Let’s not waste that chance/11
The planned 2006 £2/day charge to pass one of the boundaries would have raised £50mn a year had it been introduced.
By now, the city might have raised an extra £850mn to spend on public transport.
Possibly above a billion if adjusted for inflation.
Almost two decades later, Edinburgh has ambitious car km reduction targets backed (in principle, although sadly not in practice) by 4/5 council parties.
But without measures like a congestion charge to both cut traffic AND raise funds for public transport, those will be missed.
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.
The impact assessment is interesting - worth a read - but missed a fundamental point: that if the scheme is watered down with significant exemptions then that mean less funding raised for public transport and more traffic - harming those it identifies as most impacted!