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South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods. Positive, sustainable changes. Live well locally. FREE e-cargobike hire & Tool Library @sw20etl #streetsNOTroads
Sep 22 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
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Aug 13 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
🚌Bus lane trials and tribulations:

Edinburgh Council meets this week to decide whether to trial something it already knows will work & is well supported - extending bus lane times🧵

But simultaneously it will allow 2,600 private hires cars to use them🤦‍♂️
The councils own analysis says when bus lane times were reduced in 2015 bus time journey times and reliability suffered.

So why are we trialling it?

We know it works! Image
Jul 4 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
It’s time for an #Edinburgh congestion charge.

Here’s why🧵 Image The planned 2006 £2/day charge to pass one of the boundaries would have raised £50mn a year had it been introduced.

By now, the city might have raised an extra £850mn to spend on public transport.

Possibly above a billion if adjusted for inflation.
May 6 • 11 tweets • 9 min read
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What can #Edinburgh learn from 🇫🇷?

🌳⬆️more trees
♟️⬆️more bollards
🌷⬆️more greenery
🚶⬆️walkable neighbourhoods
🚃⬆️prioritise public transport
🪑⬆️more places to sit
👂⬇️less noise
🚗⬇️fewer (but not no) cars Image
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Image France is consistently adding green to grey spaces.

And it does so not as an exception, but at the point streets are resurfaced - often filtering them too.

Rather than planters, #Edinburgh needs to add proper rain gardens and greenery as well as… Image
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Feb 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Every day approximately 7,650 pupils at Edinburgh’s Independent Schools are driven some of the way to school.

Despite being only 20% of the total pupils educated in Edinburgh - they form 53% of the kids driven to school in #Edinburgh

They are a huge part of city traffic.

🧵1/4 65% of kids are driven at least some
of the way to Edinburgh’s independent schools.

A high proportion of privately educated kids are driven all of the way (44%).

It’s likely their journeys, on average, will be longer too.

“The school run” is a huge part of congestion.

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Feb 10 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Who holds a Drivers Licence? Scotland-wide data:

🙋‍♀️A third of women don’t drive

💸 The more you earn more, the more likely you are to be able to drive and the more frequently you will drive.

🤷‍♂️Men are much more likely to drive and do so more frequently.

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🚗 Drivers are more likely to to male

🙋‍♀️A third of women do not hold a drivers licence

⬆️ But the % of women holding licences has increased - a lot.

📈10% more men hold a license than women. Image
Dec 9, 2023 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
Viewforth should’ve been wider pavements as a minimum, but ideally the filtering of rat runs.

Instead four parking spaces have been prioritised.

But it’s part of a long list of council failures to take opportunities, making their own car reduction target harder to achieve 🧵👇 Removing not enhancing temporary measures:

George IV & Forrest Rd
Braid Road
Longstone
Silverknowes

Failure to capitalise on lengthy closures and filter, bus gate or narrow:

North Bridge
Shandon
Craiglockhart

Poor design:

Elm Row
Ocean Terminal
CCWEL
Picardy Pl
Leith Walk
Nov 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
First New Town Design:

A missed opportunity to create spaces with greenery and much wider pavements where cars are guests - like every other major European capital?

Where are the trees, bollards, seats and sustainable drainage?

Lessons not being learned fast enough. 🧵

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So why are bollards not in the design?

Otherwise we end up with another Elm Row, Leith Walk or Parliament Square

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Sep 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Worth re-tweeting this thread on the #Edinburgh Workplace Parking Levy.

It’s a key tool for the council in hitting its own car km reduction target.

@SanneDD @kevin_lang @CouncillorCowdy @CllrScottArthur @DAstonSNP @julebandel @KatrinaFaccenda @FinlayMcF @KayleighFONeill


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Image One this is for sure: there is no perfect policy.

But there’s much scope for mitigating it’s impacts.

However exemptions will need to be managed carefully should it not become too watered down or difficult to administer.

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Sep 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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Berlin, Ljubljana? No: Kirkintilloch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Could this be a model for high streets or neighbourhoods in #Edinburgh: Colinton, Currie, Craiglockhart, Morningside?

🚶‍♀️wider pavement with nice materials
🚗cobbled median
🌳trees
🚲bike parking
🚏bigger bus stops

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Image Slower speed, more tentative junctions.

Won’t work everywhere - but with bus gates reducing the volume of through traffic (but without stopping any access) it could work in some places in Edinburgh - Gorgie or Stockbridge?

Not sure whether this works with tactile tho?

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Aug 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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📍 Sighthill, #Glasgow

Could this green, walkable, low-car 20 minute neighbourhood be something #Edinburgh developments like ‘West Town’ or Redford Barracks aim for?

#streetsNOTroads #twentyminuteneighbourhood #gentledensity There’s a lot of good stuff going on in Glasgow at a level of quality sadly not yet matched in #Edinburgh.

It’s far from perfect, but still there much Edinburgh can learn from.

In the South of the city, there’s this👇….
Aug 16, 2023 • 32 tweets • 11 min read
#Edinburgh councillors meet to discuss transport & the environment tomorrow.

Having access to the #data in this thread will help them come to good decisions!🧵

@CouncillorCowdy @kevin_lang @SanneDD @CllrScottArthur @KayleighFONeill @FinlayMcF @CllrScottArthur Image
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Image Everyone in Edinburgh drives right?

Wrong.
Jul 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
🚨 @SW20Ed on Tour! 🚨

Glasgow’s #SouthCityWay has been quietly progressing over the past couple of years.

You can see what kind of journeys it facilitates below, but it’s not all about bikes - far from it…

What can #Edinburgh learn?🧵 Image There’s space to sit & chat with some greenery that’s been added to filtered streets - making side streets quieter, safer and more liveable - and enabling the Main Street to be made more cycling friendly.

#streetsNOTroads

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May 8, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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🇧🇪 🇫🇷 Comparaison Bruxelles Edimbourg
🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Brussels Edinburgh comparison

🏔️ hills
☔️ rain
🏰 historic centre
✈️ tourism
🚗 thru traffic⬆️ (for now)

But Brussels has many more protected cycle lanes - even if often temporary (appears to be Cargobike Centraal) Bollards everywhere to prevent #PavementParking Image
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Apr 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
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Lessons from Central London: good & bad!

🧵 What can #Edinburgh learn? Image
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Image 1. 🦓 There are lots more zebra crossings than in #Edinburgh.

Often the streets are narrowed and raised at crossings or integrated with bike crossings. Image
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Jan 7, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
How might an #Edinburgh 20 minute neighbourhood work in practice?

Here’s what could be possible around the local schools in #Firhill & #Oxgangs.

The first of two short threads 🧵

#streetsNOTroads It has four schools within a very short distance: Firrhill High, Oxgangs Primary & Nursery, St Mark’s and Braidburn.

It’s surprising what’s within a ten minute walk or cycle.

@OxgangsPS @FirrhillHigh @BraidburnSchool @OxgangsN Map showing what’s within a ten minute walk or ten minute cycle of Oxgangs Primary School. More than you think! Ten mins each way = 20 minute neighbourhoods?
Dec 31, 2022 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods: most liked posts in 2022… 👇🧵

#streetsNOTroads #20minuteneigbourhood #edinburgh #improveNOTremove #TimeToDeliver 20

#PavementParking #JuniperGreen @NeilCllr @FionaCllr @sjenkinson76
Dec 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
📣New #Data:

More than half of all parking tickets in #Edinburgh every year are repeat offenders.

#streetsNOTroads Image #Edinburgh #ParkingFines

Everyone makes mistakes. 1 or 2 tickets in a year might be an error.

But 3 or more fines in a year? Or more than 10?

Perhaps the system of fines needs to allow doubling of each new fine after three have already been received in a calendar year? Image
Nov 19, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
“Everybody drives right?”

Actually, mostly folk walk to the local shops. Like the data for Roseburn & Haymarket says - c90% don’t drive.

Business owners often do though. So, it’s common for businesses the world over to over estimate how many of their customers drive too. Image
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Nov 16, 2022 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
There’s been discussion about traffic flow in #Edinburgh. So we looked at the data on a city-wide basis.

Its true: traffic flows less than in 2000!

But read on… all is not what it seems 🧐🧵 Total vehicle flows in Edinburgh year 2000-2021, showing a net increase to 2019, then huge decreases in 2020 and 2021. Traffic flow compared to 2000 has dropped. Significantly - by 16.7%.

But that’s if you include the 2020 and 2021 data which was affected by COVID! 😷

Those years were pretty unique! Same chart as previous tweet.
Nov 5, 2022 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 What’s #Edinburgh driving?

In the last 13 years, c25,000 more vehicles have been registered in Edinburgh.

Data 📈📊📉💹👩‍💻 Graph showing 25k extra vehicles since 2009 have bee registered in Edinburgh
Cars swamping an historic city with limited space There’s been no significant increase in roads though.

Changes from a bike hanger, extending a bus lane, adding a tram line or removing a parking space rightly require some level of consultation…

…but this organic growth has had ZERO consultation, despite its consequences.