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Jun 10 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
🚨New Bike Bus🚨

Details here of the Bike Bus SW: Juniper Green Primary School👇

Local parents (and kids!) will launch the route to #JuniperGreen Primary on 24 June.
It’s being organised by local parents in connection with the school. It’s so popular, a second meeting point in Baberton has already been arranged!

@Junicycle_LR

See more on our blog

hellosw20.wixsite.com/sw20ed/post/bi…
It’ll be guaranteed to make you smile!!

Just like the @blackfordsafer1 @safer_to & @BikeBusShaw!

We’ve emailed all local ward councillors to see if they want to attend, support and even marshall - get in touch with @junibikeb!

@CllrScottArthur @MarcoGBiagi @NeilCllr @FionaCllr @sjenkinson76 @ColintonCC @JGBMCC

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Jun 11
🚨 SW20 on Tour 🚨

🧵 Wee trip to Waltham Forrest, London

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, accessible public transport, walkable communities and safe cycling - showing what’s possible in a UK context.

Many lessons for Edinburgh..!

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The local authority here delivered traffic calming/reduction projects know as Mini Holland schemes
Through traffic was filtered from residential streets using one way streets (with two way cycling), trees as filters and small gardens.

The effect:

✅less thru traffic
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✅less noise (it’s remarkably quiet) 🐦
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What can we learn from elsewhere about traffic calming the wide roads in SW Edinburgh?

Rapid fire thread🧵

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Watch this from @mobycon @modacitylife @lennartnout

40 years of traffic calming experience 🇳🇱 distilled into 10 mins!

10 mins to change your perspective!🤯

🎥 26min 40sec to 36min 15 sec.



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@mobycon has three key principles for traffic calming:

1. Enforcement is futile
2. Width is everything
3. Car volume is not a barrier
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Oct 8, 2021
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?
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Oct 7, 2021
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👇
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Oct 6, 2021
🚸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
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Sep 25, 2021
🚨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
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