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February 23, 2005
'No' to congestion charge
As expected, Edinburgh voted against traffic congestion charges - by a margin of three to one.
Whether the scheme was well-planned or not, I believe the end result is bad for the city. In the words of Duncan MacLaren, of the Friends of the Earth, “No one should be happy with this result - it is not a victory for anyone. Dealing with traffic growth needs political leadership, not opportunism.”
It’s difficult not to see the result in part as a verdict on the city’s Labour council and its work style - slow, unresponsive and tending towards arrogance.
Nevertheless Edinburgh does have a traffic problem - we experienced it only yesterday! Now nothing will be done about it until after the advent of the STV-elected council in 2007. A new traffic scheme is unlikely before the end of the decade.
What will happen to the proposed tram lines? Will any of them go ahead now?
news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=203642005
www.snp.org/index_hires.php?pageName=news/newsdetail.php?newsID=2833
Posted by Simon Holledge at February 23, 2005 11:59 AM
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