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8 Oct, 8 tweets, 7 min read
Excellent to see council officers recommending significant improvements on #LanarkRoad to Committee next week.

✅ Fantastic proposal to have two🚦proper crossings that will hopefully have cross-community support.

A proposal helps walking, wheeling and scooting!
The scheme also looks like it has reduced vehicle speed on #LanarkRoad. 👍
Could #lanarkRoad look like this in the future?

Is this the start of considering parts of South West Edinburgh as streets, not roads?

Where people use local services, green spaces and businesses and move around more sustainably?
And positive also to see further improvements across the city. 👇

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More from @SW20Ed

7 Oct
Have a look at our latest blog on how the #spacesforpeople #TravellingSafely scheme has improved safety & visibility near junctions.

Summary: Good progress, but more can be done with permanent designs.

hellosw20.wixsite.com/sw20ed/post/to…
✅Junctions are clear of parked 🚗
✅Some junctions are now less wide
✅speeds have reduced

❌more dropped kerbs and tactile needed - no change
❌pedestrian priority could be enhanced with pavements being level across junctions.
If we #improveNOTremove the #LanarkRoad scheme we could consider designs like these in Glasgow & Cardiff which improve accessibility & pedestrian priority👇
Read 6 tweets
6 Oct
🚸New Blog Post🚸
1/We hear a lot about how things have got more dangerous for pedestrians, children, elderly & disabled people since the temporary Lanark Road 'Travelling Safely' scheme was implemented, and that the scheme should be removed on that basis. hellosw20.wixsite.com/sw20ed/post/fo…
2/But does that argument hold up when scrutinised? Should we return Lanark Road to how it was pre-pandemic? What would the impacts on pedestrians, bus passengers, parents, elderly &, disabled people be?The new blog looks at the 7 existing crossing points on Lanark Road.
3/We want to make to make our streets, safer, slower, accessible and people friendly. #improveNOTremove #20mphstreets #CutTheClutter
Read 7 tweets
25 Sep
🚨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
Read 16 tweets
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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