Talk Porty ~ Portobello

Grunk

Alternatively there is always the Prom itself.

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20 minutes? I must be getting the wrong bus. The 26 struggles to get through the junction at bath street in 20 minutes during the morning rush.

Thanks for the references Bob, I'll do some digging.

I'll also ask my boss if we can move offices to York Place.

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I was wondering if including Portobello on the Borders Railway route had been considered? Given that it can take over an hour to get the Centre of Edinburgh (4 miles), seems like the town could benefit from a regular rail service (6-minutes to Waverly). I realise Brunstane is on the route, but there...

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Just watched the video, quite interesting.

The main thing, is that they had a good traffic designer/planner, I wonder if we can get one of those...

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Absolutely ridiculous this morning, Portobello crossroads had a tailback all the way to Eastfield. What happened to the idea of synching the pedestrian crossroads with the lights? In fact all CEC need to do is change the order of the traffic lights so the main road goes after the green man, to ease ...

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As Residents of Portobello, shouldn't we be against this sort of thing?

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On behalf of all the people of Portobello: We're against this sort of thing.

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The eye of Mordor is upon us once more...

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On the plus side, I don't think we have a Sue Ryder yet, this could be an opportunity for them.

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It's worse now it is dark most of the time, folk think they can get away with it under the cover of darkness. I would like to see more environmental wardens (not just during the day). A way to report owners that let their dogs foul the area. And a more punitive approach. The last is probably all tha...

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admin: thread split from New Portobello High School - PPAG win legal appeal.

Can I graze livestock on common good land?

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Perhaps next time they decommission a North Sea oil platform, we could see if we can have it to build a school on.

I think the repercussions of this will last a long time, What a shame for the kids, for progress, for common sense and for Portobello.

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Now the real question is whether having more accomodation in Portobello as well as a commuter link to Fife would have increased the High Street footfall enough so that Woodwares could be sold as a going concern.

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I heard a story about a guy with a fixed wheel bike.

Never had to chain it up because no one could ride, it, or even if they could they never got very far because of the lack of brakes.

Grunk

Speaking on behalf of All Portobello residents:

We are against this.

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How about appreciating physics, chemistry and (partly) British Engineering. And to add to what Franck says... War is political, don't blame the Armed forces for the wars we fight. The Men and Women of the Military should be praised for doing a difficult and dangerous Job. Some of them are not even a...

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Since we are getting reduced service for now, can we have a full squadron on the last day?

Afterburners on, reach the castle then pull up and aim for the sky. would be good to see.

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The problem with using sat navs in Edinburgh (or should I say Heisenburgh) Is that you can never be certain whether a street has roadworks on until you turn into it.

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Really, I didn't realise that, I thought there was still an issue with some of the flats being 5 storeys instead of 4 or something.

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The issue is that it can't be developed, because no matter what the plans are a campaign group will sprout up against it. The last plan, I think, was for a modest amount of housing, some greenspace and more shops. but much better to have a vacant site. Same with the site at Baileyfield. we really ne...

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Now if only we could convince the council to let us have more bars and restaurants, then we could have a proper resort town.

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Not going to vote this time, didn't even bothering to register. In the past, my vote has never made a difference, and putting a number on a piece of paper once every 5 years is hardly democracy. I guess once candidates stop, towing the party line or evangelising their own personal politics, and actu...

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wangi wrote:Old pet shop will be two charity shops I understand - Salvation Army + another.

Pass on Barelio / Figgate Whins.

Will that give us the full set?

Another winner for Portobello in the Top Trumps Card Game....

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Surely, given the uproar with building a new school on greenspace, the site should be kept for either a new school or greenspace. i.e. we keep one piece of greenspace and rotate the building of new schools to the current "space" Like leaving a field fallow in farming terms. So if a new primary schoo...

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Apparently there was consultation about this which ended last week. I wonder how many other consultations I am unaware of... http://www.scotsman.com/news/bid_to_tackle_portobello_s_rat_run_1_2059493 Bid to tackle Portobello’s rat run Portobello streets where a one way system may be introduced A NEW ...

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I don't actually like shared pavements, as cyclists and pedestrians tend to get in the way of each other. Really what you want in a cycle path is a transport conduit that you can cycle down without fear of a pedestrian or dog suddenly deciding to veer off into your path. Now this idea, works well in...

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Unfortunately its a catch 22 situation. People feel that their opinions don't matter, so they don't bother trying to make their opinions known. Doesn't help when there are occasions that the vote goes one way and that information gets deliberately misrepresented. Or that a democratic party can form ...

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If it also sell snowboarding equipment, cheese and video games, I'm in.

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Is it a running shop?

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If we increased the traffic flow on the High Street, other cars would realise that this was a good option, and start using it, thus building up the pressure again, bringing us back where we started. It's a pattern seen time and again with traffic flow. I agree, that's the basic catch-22 of traffic ...

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So the two issues are: Timeout period is too short (pretty much goes whenever anyone turns up). Crossing period is too long (to allow slow folk to cross). A zebra crossing would fix issue #2 but make issue #1 worse. I would have thought that phasing, would be easier to accomplish as the required cir...

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The first thing that needs to be done is to ensure that all the junctions are working at maximum efficiency. To do this the bottlenecks need to be identified and the timing adjusted to suit. The simplest way to identify a bottleneck is to see where a queue of backed up traffic starts from. As can be...

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Hasn't this all been covered in another thread. I seem to recall that the general feeling of some members of PCC was the the community is too stupid to know what's good for them. The other issue was that it was difficult to get a representation from all the entire community, so it's probably best no...

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Anyone know where I can get some Arcari's ice cream, it is apparently my Wife's favourite, but there is no shop anymore

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