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How your comments are helping with the next steps

While we’ve been asking for your ideas for temporary measures, we're also been looking at the views we’ve gathered on our planned improvements to our active travel network . We know from this work that there are areas where you feel less comfortable moving around on 'wheels' of various kinds. We’re also looking at areas of the city where businesses will need more outdoor space as they re-open.

We’ve already reviewed many locations and are currently drawing up plans so we can put temporary measures in place as quickly as possible. Many of the comments you've given us on the Commonplace interactive map are about issues in these locations.

So, your comments are already helping us to refine our next set of proposals for temporary changes, and they'll help us to identify other possible temporary measures across the city.

Find out more about what we’ve already put in place and what we’re planning for the city centre, local shopping areas, segregated cycle lanes, spaces for exercise and low traffic neighbourhoods.

Transport and Environment Convener Councillor Lesley Macinnes said :

"We’re leading the way with our plans to create more space for everyone – pedestrians, cyclists, wheelchair users, people with prams and families. Over the coming months we’ll be installing more than 30km of segregated cycle lanes across the city to support people to return to work, take leisurely trips or to visit one another on bike.“These upcoming schemes were identified on key routes by officers as priority areas. As the number of cars using our roads gradually increases with people returning to work, changes like this will help people to continue choosing to cycle when we come out of lockdown.“Work also starts this week to create more space temporarily in local shopping streets, making easier to distance as businesses reopen. Measures include widening pavements and removing street clutter in Corstorphine, Gorgie/Dalry and Portobello, with more areas to follow next week.”

Posted on 22nd July 2020

by Project Team