Kings Road roundabout replacement

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[Brian McCrow]

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Ceejam

I think you've illustrated your own point. Why are you driving to your parents when you could use public transport or walk or cycle.

Alternatively if you have to use your car it wouldn't be a hardship to go this alternative route as it's hardly miles out of your current route!!

However, with a one way you wouldn't touch the Town Centre.

Or you could park by the Foresters and enjoy a very pleasant walk to your parents passing the crowds of people enjoying a traffic free latte or glass of wine!!

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From tonights letters in EN

Traffic in Portobello is being mismanaged


WHILE Edinburgh has the reputation of having some of the worst maintained roads in the country, the city fathers are going to squander materials and manpower on the construction of traffic calming measures on a number of short, dead-end streets in Portobello, each carrying very few motor vehicles.

While speeding is taking place along the main road through Portobello every day, nothing is attempted to do anything about it, where a simple, cheap speed limit can be quickly put up.

Portobello now carries an impossible burden of extra motor transport due to the enormous expansion in Leith, while a traffic choker is being deliberately maintained in its centre in the form of a now unnecessary pedestrian crossing right beside inadequate bus stops. This pedestrian crossing is a leftover from the time when the Portobello bypass was built, but motorists, due to inadequate signposts, kept going through Portobello.

Now also the bypass is inadequate and should be dualled with a flyover at each end. Traffic lights at the Seafield roundabout are supposed to be our salvation, but they will not solve anything with

For fear of being litigated against , I shall refrain in answering this highlighted statement.

[Bob Jefferson]

From today's EN Letters Page:

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