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.
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
@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