Edinburgh Sucks! | “Third World” City Centre pavement

Andrew Burns

“Third World” City Centre pavement

By The Basa ⋅ February 15, 2006 ⋅

It seems that private buildings advisors who are not in the Council feeding trough are able to find out exactly what the problems are with the city center’s pavements. Right in the middle of the “World Heritage Site” is nice ‘third world’ pavements and the council doesn’t even know they exist.

Gerry Ritchie, buildings adviser to Stateside Leisure, which runs Berlin Bierhaus on Queensferry Street Lane, is claiming that bags of rubbish and cracked pavements make it more like a street in Vietnam or Thailand.

He said that rubbish thrown into the street by neighbouring properties and passers-by was blighting the street, with bags and bottles strewn across the lane, which lies within the World Heritage Site.

According to the businesses along the lane dozens of people have had problems walking on the slabs because of the state of bad repair. Seemingly, the council have been advised on numerous occasions over the past six months but must have been too busy putting traffic lights on the junction of George Street and Hanover Street which have now been removed.