This article was published in the Evening News today.
Trams, Transport and Trust in the Council.
At least two of these are vital to the city but, sadly, at the moment they’re all the dock.
The most important of those is a collapse in trust, because it harms everything else the Council wants to do.
After the fiasco surrounding the development of a tram route through the city the people of Edinburgh simply don’t trust the council any more to deliver any major transport project.
What’s more, they don’t trust them to even get the small things right as far as transport and traffic are concerned.
That is something I’ve been hearing from more and more people in recent weeks, and is a problem we urgently need to do something about.
Councillor Lesley Hinds Is the Labour councillor for the Inverleith Ward. From 2003 to 2007 she was Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Now she’s got another big job: speaking on Transport for the Labour Party on Edinburgh Council.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Sixty ideas
The transport consultation meeting I organised earlier this month was a lively and talkative affair. As anyone would expect, there were many views of what transport improvements could be made in the city. Here’s a full list of the sixty ideas from discussion that we recorded. Some I agree with, some I don’t. Some are immediately practical, some are not. Some repeat others, some contradict others. But here they are.
What do you think? What ideas would you add?
What do you think? What ideas would you add?
- Improved signage to make safer for pedestrians, cyclist and motorists
- De-clutter pavements
- Cancel Trams, learn from other cities: trolley buses
- Abolish maximum 4 hour parking
- Take bus drivers off from fare taking: two doors - one off, one on
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