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25 Sep, 16 tweets, 20 min read
🚨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

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10 Jul
@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
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