Fascinating reports about #Edinburgh active travel & 20 minute neighbourhoods schemes:
1. The change curve is real - previously skeptical locals now happy with schemes once delivered.
2. Built it well: they come.
3. Locals more positive than people who drive through neighbourhoods.
Findings 🧵👇
1. The change curve is real - previously skeptical locals now happy with schemes once delivered.
2. Built it well: they come.
3. Locals more positive than people who drive through neighbourhoods.
Findings 🧵👇
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So yes, I support the CC LTN but they made a pig's ear out of it.
Bollards are utterly unambiguous. You simply can't ignore a bollard.
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
Also it sounds like the detailed design and signage needed to be a lot better.
🚲 Kids cycling to school up from 13 to 24%
🏡Resident satisfaction up from 49% to 64%.
đź›’Businesses more satisfied too.
🚗 💨 90% of shoppers didn’t drive (Morningside & Bruntsfield shopkeepers take note)
This paragraph sums it all up:
Fewer than 1% of pedestrians have ANY interaction with a cyclist at all at a bus stop on CCWEL.
This aligns with @livingstreets.bsky.social report.
https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/media/hdlfxpio/ls_inclusivedesign_busstopscycletracks_main.pdf
It’s the same with a congestion charge in New York, London bike lanes or a tram in #Edinburgh.
People adapt to and welcome change. Build it well and they come. Important lesson for the Dalry scheme. @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social
Look at the previous post! CCWEL proves it needs good design - people will then welcome it, particularly those locals who already do.
Who is more likely to be against it?
🚗 💨 Older drivers who don’t live locally. 20% of respondents ONLY passed through the area and don’t stop!
Who is more likely to support it?
Younger folk, residents and those who use public transport and/or walk.
Just like Leith Walk - Las Shamblas.
Reducing the filter times at Haymarket will mean it’ll be less effective overall and please no one: do it properly or don’t bother.