@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.
🌳⬆️more trees
♟️⬆️more bollards
🌷⬆️more greenery
🚶⬆️walkable neighbourhoods
🚃⬆️prioritise public transport
🪑⬆️more places to sit
👂⬇️less noise
🚗⬇️fewer (but not no) cars
France is consistently adding green to grey spaces.
And it does so not as an exception, but at the point streets are resurfaced - often filtering them too.
Rather than planters, #Edinburgh needs to add proper rain gardens and greenery as well as…
…street trees.
Trees are either lacking or don’t feature enough in #Edinburgh plans for George Street, Teviot Place, Dalry, the recent tram routes, the West Edinburgh link etc.
#Edinburgh designs are grey, late-1990s designs and not welcoming or climate-friendly.