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Edinburgh’s Stalinist planners

By The Basa ⋅ November 3, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

George Kerevan’s column in today’s Scotsman (unfortunately, this is in the premium content at the site) and I hope he won’t mind me quoting some of it here in the interest of public awareness:
In fact, I’m only moved to write this because in the past week I’ve heard several prominent environmentalists denounce Edinburgh’s traffic management […]

Leader held up - work put on hold

By The Basa ⋅ November 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that although the whole population of the city have to be held up for hours in roadworks on the way to and from work. The city center has been taken over by our elected officials and is failing. However, if our dear leader Teflon Don Anderson gets stuck in traffic […]

Council wins! ICity center is a no-go area.

By The Basa ⋅ November 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Edinburgh City Council have finally won, and they have the audacity to complain. They have spent years trying to close down the city center to cars, children, the elderly and disabled and in their leader’s own words “bizarre” traffic management and now we find out they are going to be short of cash.
New figures […]

Where to shop? Try Glasgow

By The Basa ⋅ October 31, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks to our esteemed council, world famous Princes Street is dropping down the shoppers place to be seen in favour of … erm… Glasgow.
It appears that shoppers have had enough of the council enraging drivers by controversially changing a number of routes in the city centre, a scheme which many motorists and indeed the […]

Third rate station from 5th rate council

By The Basa ⋅ October 31, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Finally, Teflon ‘Don’ Donald Anderson speaks out about the Waverley station - and says nothing. What makes this so urgent now, when it wasn’t last week, last month, last year, last decade, last century? What made the biggest street furniture installation in a World Heritage Site come before the upgrading of the station?
Anderson […]

Business chiefs want trams trashed

By The Basa ⋅ October 15, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Business leaders are today coming out and trashing the tram proposals for the city and going as far as accusing the people behind the trams as having no business sense.
Tim Steward, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said: “We are concerned that we’re seeing the same sort of rising costs that we saw with […]

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