Why I Wanted A Petition...

This was a wet morning in January earlier on this year but the scene is quite typical.
This corner will feature in my countdown of weird and downright dangerous corners
in Musselburgh. There are no brilliant corners as they split in '93.





I shall post more videos showing speeding traffic, poor parking, bad pavements, badly designed junctions, chip cartons, dangerous driving, and pedestrians running for their lives - oh and seagulls, lots of seagulls.

This is a picture of Dalrymple Loan at the Caprice restaurant taken in October 2010 before the improvements. No concession was made to pedestrians other than the introduction of tactile paving. The lamp and sign posts combine to make the current junction cramped and congested.

Dalrymple Loan.

The proposals for this junction are for MOVA traffic lights with possibly a roundabout at the three-way junction between the Mall, the High St. and the bridge with a staggered Puffin crossing for the benefit of pedestrians. This traffic management system is designed to increase the flow of traffic.

MOVA explanation here

https://trlsoftware.co.uk/products/traffic_control/mova

The relevant extract from the Musselburgh Interim Report Transport Appraisal is here

Extract from MIR

The link to this Pdf is here

http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/downloads/file/8870/mir_transport_appraisal

This is not a bedtime read.

All of the modelling scenarios result in large increases in traffic through Inveresk Road with   longer queues of standing traffic at the caprice junction and the concomitant increase in particulate and CO emissions.
More on this in a later blog.