“Third World” City Centre pavement

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 […]

City Archives been left to rot

The city’s archives which date back to the tenth century we have now found out have been all but ignored since local government reorganisation 10 years ago.
The move follows scathing criticism from George MacKenzie, the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, of the city’s archives, which has thousands of artifacts detailing the history of Edinburgh […]

“The locals are getting humpty”

That was the word from Sergeant Kenny Milne, a senior member of the police’s traffic management section to the council about the Central Edinburgh Traffic Management scheme which Alan Roden has managed to get hold of through the FOI act. It also shows the threats that flew from the Council’s full-time public realm co-ordinator […]

Explain the £35,000 fix

If it’s true, then it is amazing that the council could carry out the work for the price stated. We asked earlier for the council to publish the amount it would cost to reverse the nightmare that they call the ‘traffic management’ scheme. The council this week published the figure of £35,000 and […]

Tram Plan gives Labour bloody nose

The council’s ruling Labour party got yet another bloody nose in the last week thanks to the voters of the Murrayfield district. They were pushed into fourth place garnering only about a shocking 6% of the vote in the district.
What made matters worse and is telling for the future is that the appearance […]

City politicans join our call for resignation

Leading city politicians today joined with EdinburghSucks!com call earlier this week for the sacking of city transport supremo Andrew Burns.
Phil Wheeler, the Liberal Democrats’ transport spokesman, agreed it was time for Mr Burns to resign from his post.
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Iain Whyte, the city’s Tory group leader, said he had lost confidence in Mr Burns overseeing transport […]