Take a walk

Here’s something I didn’t know until recently. Over 70,000 Edinburgh citizens live within a 20 minute walk of Princes Street.

So then, when people do want to walk, why can’t we make it a whole lot easier and more pleasant for them? Long waits at pedestrian crossings while traffic speeds past. Dangerous railings around junctions and crossings so you can’t see round the corner to see what’s coming. So many signs, poles, boxes, cluttering up the pavements. So many detours around those railings. And of course, the state of the pavements themselves. It’s time we really made that 20 minute walking area a pedestrian paradise! It would be good for our health and good for our economy as people enjoy being in the Centre more.