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What does the proposed M1 Motorway speed limit tell us about Edinburgh?

The BBC and other media have been telling us that the government is proposing to set up a 60mph speed limit for a 32-mile stretch of the M1, in a bid to cut pollution.

This is because reducing the speed from 70mph to 60mph is expected to reduce the adverse effects of the traffic in respect of air quality.

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It isn't HOW they say what they say that's important... it's WHAT they actually said that matters

Submitted by e2toe4

on Sat, 06/22/2013 - 19:48

It's sometimes worth looking back to see what people said back in the old days,as here in 2003 by a chap called Andrew Burns, confident that Edinburgh wouldn't make the same mistakes as all those other places had made building a tram --- Or here by a Gordon Mackenzie in 2010 strenuously denying...well, some far fetched story that the tram may not get to Leith...AS IF?!?

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Edinburgh twinning with Detroit??

The cascade of bad decisions now being revealed piecemeal have been inevitable for years, and clear to anyone who has looked at the plans of the tram project and various associated piecemeal traffic management proposals that have flown from it.

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Edinburgh to DEFRA ..SOS... is anywhere else seeing pollution 14% up on traffic 5% down??

"the Council has been given advice by the Head of Legal, Risk and
Compliance that it would no longer be prudent to hear deputations on
Traffic Regulation Orders and to do otherwise could expose the Council to

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