For comparison the active travel budget for the *entire country* is £220m/a.
It's long past time for @transcotland
to redirect funding for climate emergency era obsolete road schemes like the M8, A9 & Sherriffhall to sustainable modes.
*Year* *Cost* *Completion*
Sep 21 £35m Late 23
May 23 £100m Late 24
July 24 £152m Early 26
That’s a >400% rise in costs over a three year period.
Jan 30 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
So, Edinburgh's Circulation Plan is finally out!
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The CP set out to significantly rebalance our streets city-wide to meet our now - *extremely pressing* - 2030 Net Zero & 30% car km reduction commitments.
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After almost two years of serious graft, the CP has evolved into a huge, sprawling, ambitious, highly complex piece of work that has involved CEC officers, consultants & stakeholders alike often grappling with approaches that are still genuinely novel in the UK context.
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Jan 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Agree: Its definitely not either or!
The CPs finalised networks have been much more heavily discussed & properly integrated with other workstreams & modes than the tram work & as such
are likely to be much more definitive (than an offhand paragraph in the tram report)
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