Two depressing things witnessed – Shame on the City’s Council!

Two depressing things witnessed by me today as a result of poorly planned and executed tramworks fiasco / traffic diversions:
Sad thing #1) Sight-impaired lady with white stick patiently standing at Pedestrian Crossing at Queensferry Street opposite Ryan’s Bar. (The same crossing that, even when the Green Man is on, has no traffic light to stop [...]

On yer bike, and they really are serious

They actually surveyed the public about it. The public told them no. Guess what, screw the public, we’re in charge, we’ll just do it.
TRANSPORT bosses are to push on with plans to introduce a bike sharing scheme in the Capital, despite a survey failing to find public support for the project.
First mistake they [...]

Craigmillar totally fucked by publicly funded cabal

Last night at Craigmillar’s Community Council meeting the same three office bearers who were thrown out at the recent elections were installed back into their positions against the wishes of the community and using the publicly funded resources of Crapacity Building Project, Craigmillar Childcare Services and Haywired.
Installed against the wishes of the community were:

Chair: Paul [...]

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.
and
Iain Whyte, the city’s Tory group leader, said he had lost confidence in Mr Burns overseeing transport [...]