Today’s meeting of transport committee was not as bad as I thought… infact it achieved some progress (limited yes, but some progress) on the issue I was raising of Duddingston village and traffic. Cross party agreement was reached to set up a member officer group to include Historic Scotland (who have responsibility for the park) and the …
Feb
08
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Today I shall again enter the weird and wonderful world of Duddingston Village traffic management. Essential this is problem of an ancient village now in a city where the traffic use the old streets for an arterial route with a huge loss of in quality of life for the residents There have been numerous reports …
Nov
23
Traffic and tough decisions
Edinburgh is a city of villages, the ancient communities that hold in their very walls the story of Scotland’s Capital City. One of them, Duddingston Village is blighted with traffic jams that seriously reduce the quality of life in the village. I proposed a motion to a recent meeting of the City Council which said “Council …




