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| Author: | skippy41 [ Tue May 29, 2012 11:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-eveni ... w.facebook |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Wed May 30, 2012 1:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
Whats going to happen if you cross a Tram line in a car..Execution by firing squad?? |
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| Author: | chrismas [ Wed May 30, 2012 3:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
Stupid cooncil cant organise a ride in a whoorhoose. |
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| Author: | Jasbar [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
You take a look around Edinburgh and you realise it's a sh*thouse. The place is a mess. Our roads are third world, full of pot holes, mainly where roads have not been reinstated properly by contractors and the council fails to hold them to account. The speed bumps, as was predicted, are crumbling. Huge cost to put them in and no money to keep them in a decent state of repair. They're a sight, and they damage our vehicles as we have to negotiate them. The street furniture, which looks good when installed is similarly in a poor state of repair and an eyesore. Pillars that are palce to keep vehicles of pavements are knocked down, bent over and are left as another eyesore. The centre of the town is swept nightly, often during peak periods when collection creates traffic chaos. The outskirts are left as a mess. Leith in particular. Greenways, which were created with an expensive green chip coating, are now peeling off, leaving the cracked roads underneath exposed. Another eyesore, and no money available to repair them. Another expensive design folly, created to satisfy the politicians' photo opportunity then left to decay. Weeds growing in cracked pavements, and public areas outside the city centre left wild, not a pretty sight. Public toilets that close at ten, not that there's that many of them. And if you get one to stay open until ten, then you're lucky, as the attendants seem to believe its OK for them to just close the touilet when it suits them. they do have to get home after all. Greenways that hog road space, even when no buses are using them. A "rush hour" that extends beyond anything that's reality, and some lanes which run the whole day, designed to slow traffic down completely rather than just at peak periods. And that's not to mention education, social care and all the other aspects of this failing council. But the council does restrict taxis. Got to hold on to that little piece of power. And don't try to engage with them, because all they'll do is fob you off and buy time. The whole administrative process is still a shambles, despite the "leadership" of Chief executive Sue Bruce. We have seen no difference in substance, just a reorganisation of committees and administration. It's not getting any better. The bus lane cameras are an abomination. They were always only ever designed to raise cash. The only problem for the council is that they were so successful in the first instance that the council got embarrassed. had they had a gentler introduction they would just have pocketed the cash and stuck two fingers up to us once more. This is not a council serving the people, it is a council exercising fascist control over us. And its not coming from the politicians, who are largely just window dressing to persuade us that we live in a democracy. It is emanating from a bureaucracy that is self fulfilling and out of control. At least when the checkpoints go up for Hogmanay the city gets to look like the fascist cold war dictatorship city it has become. I simply ask, why bother taking the checkpoints down? Why not go the full hog and just fill them with Kalashnikov bearing stormtroops. At least reality would then be properly reflected. |
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| Author: | Jasbar [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
Sorry I forgot the cost of parking. A clear disincentive to attracting shoppers. pert of the trades problems is that the council has conspired, through incompetence and greed, to drive our customers away. You want a passenger, then he or she is likely getting into a cab in the gyle, Kinnaird Park, cameron toll, or even Livingston. You'd have to be insane to want to shop in Princes Street. Our council has destroyed it. And when the trams are eventually finished, what price the first death to prove that rail travel and pedestrians don't mix. I wonder if any of the councillors who drove the tram folly home will even attend the funeral? |
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| Author: | wee eddie [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
Will this be the pattern for Scotland run by the Scots? |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
wee eddie wrote: Will this be the pattern for Scotland run by the Scots? Naw..its the Pattern of how things go belly up under the Edinburgh City Council.. |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Edinburgh bus lane cameras to be scrapped |
Jasbar wrote: Sorry I forgot the cost of parking. A clear disincentive to attracting shoppers. pert of the trades problems is that the council has conspired, through incompetence and greed, to drive our customers away. You want a passenger, then he or she is likely getting into a cab in the gyle, Kinnaird Park, cameron toll, or even Livingston. You'd have to be insane to want to shop in Princes Street. Our council has destroyed it. And when the trams are eventually finished, what price the first death to prove that rail travel and pedestrians don't mix. I wonder if any of the councillors who drove the tram folly home will even attend the funeral? I quite often take clients to Cameron toll, drop them there so they can pick up a city hack and let it do the Donkey work in the town centre, then I pick em up a few hours later minus the stress. |
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