See also our tram downloads page
1102 Gehl report on City Centre [largely Princes St/ George St]
- The Gehl study, ‘Edinburgh Revisited’ [link to council download page - 6 files, total over 10MB]
- The officials’ report [pdf 557k] on the above to the Edinburgh Council 22.2.11 Policy and Strategy Committee. Spokes prepared a briefing [pdf 108k] on this official report, which we felt seriously downplayed the role of cycling, especially in Princes Street (despite very positive Gehl recommendations). At the Committee, Cllr Steve Burgess got agreement to the most important single item (3a) in our briefing (the specific inclusion of cycling in the draft action plan for Princes Street). The Head of Planning also told the Committee, ‘it is not the intention that cycle lanes are squeezed out but are part of the solution’. For more on this episode see Spokesworker 07.03.11 [pdf 226k].
- But – in a report to the 10.5.11 Transport Committee [1MB] this was not included in the draft action plan, and only through Spokes diligence was this discovered. We again contacted Cllr Burgess, who obtained a high level assurance that cycling would be properly covered [txt 3k] in the consultation options for Princes Street and the surrounding area.
- The consultation is still awaited and we understand it is likely not to be until well into 2012.