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ISSUE 339 – PUBLISHED TOMORROW!

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As you read this, advance copies of the May Spurtle (Issue 339) are already filtering across the barony like birch pollen from the nose of a violently sneezing hayfever sufferer.

We begin on Page 1 with a metaphorically mauled lion and some hypothetically possible but pricey play equipment. We have also a shift in boundary benefits and the post-industrial aesthetic of an appropriate typology mix.

Cars on Calton Hill

Dear Spurtle,

I was astonished while out for a walk around Calton Hill.

I entered by the broken gated service road and was passed by not one but two cars. The first headed directly up to the square in front of the observatory.

The second didn’t turn up but parked on the upper path area. A woman got out, then her dog. She locked up and while it walked itself and did whatever it had to do, she checked her phone and wandered.

THE ENTRY LOCK/BARRIER NEEDS FIXED. 

Beverley Watson

BMW

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Spurtle's Issue 339 (published 1 May) will carry more news on this subject. 

CATHEDRAL LANE

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Aciter et Fideliter.

No. 34 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

[Bottom image by Dnalor_1, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0.]

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Tram project delivery – a work in progress

 

Dear Spurtle,

This Thursday, Edinburgh's Transport & Environment Committee will consider the long-awaited report on the status of the Trams to Newhaven project (8.2 Edinburgh Tram York Place to Newhaven Project Delivery).

Having previously announced the successful completion of the project, this report – no longer referred to as a 'close out' report - is the Council's response to two motions (one from August and one from November) and persistent lobbying from us. 

In February we posed seven key questions to the Project Team and Councillors in the form of a checklist. We are disappointed that the majority of these questions have been only partially or not at all answered in the report.

We have set out our position in a written deputation (here). Our verbal presentation at Thursday's Transport & Environment Committee will be based on this text.

Harald Tobermann

Spokesperson for Community Councils Together on Trams (CCTT)

CCTT is a coalition of the four community councils along the proposed tram extension

Leith Central Community Council - Leith Links Community Council - Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council - New Town and Broughton Community Council

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Note by Spurtle: Written deputations by the Edinburgh Bus Users Group (p. 22); City of Edinburgh Access Panel, RNIB Scotland and Sight Scotland (p. 25); and the Windsor Street, Elm Row, Leopold Place and Montgomery Street West Association (p. 27) can be read HERE.

 

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