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SpokesLothian
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1 month ago
Poster for drop-in ARBORETUM PLACE Join us to view and discuss proposed changes to Arboretum Place. Public Realm & Streetscape Proposals The City of Edinburgh Council is aiming to reduce surface water flooding by capturing rainwater along Arboretum Place using raingardens. These interventions are an opportunity to help improve the public realm and parking provision available outside the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Inverleith Park. WHERE you think! : Ground Floor, John Hope Gateway Visitor Centre Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Arboretum Place, EH3 5NZ WHEN: Saturday 7th March 2026 10:30am - 2:00pm

Poster for drop-in ARBORETUM PLACE Join us to view and discuss proposed changes to Arboretum Place. Public Realm & Streetscape Proposals The City of Edinburgh Council is aiming to reduce surface water flooding by capturing rainwater along Arboretum Place using raingardens. These interventions are an opportunity to help improve the public realm and parking provision available outside the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Inverleith Park. WHERE you think! : Ground Floor, John Hope Gateway Visitor Centre Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Arboretum Place, EH3 5NZ WHEN: Saturday 7th March 2026 10:30am - 2:00pm

Part of a Spokes email to members living in the area. Also includes 2 pictures from London, showing bike lanes installed next to SUDS (sustainalbe drainage) features We have received the email below about a drop-in, this Saturday 7 March, 10.30-2pm at the Botanics Visitor Centre. It is about... "sustainable drainage measures along the length of Arboretum Place and around the entrances to Inverleith Park and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, including placemaking opportunities between the two." We are disappointed there is no mention of improving cycling conditions at the same time, and indeed without such consideration, conditions could worsen. The current road layout already encourages car dominance, with long wide stretches. The opportunity could be taken to incorporate bike lanes along the whole of Arboretum Place, separated from the main carriageway by the sustainable drainage measures, as has been done in several other towns, such as these two examples from Waltham Forest in London image.png image.png Secondly, protected bike lanes along Arboretum Place could usefully be extended north along Arboretum Road to link to the Ferry Road bike lanes. Although these are now in poor condition they are due (eventually) to be converted into proper segregated lanes.

Part of a Spokes email to members living in the area. Also includes 2 pictures from London, showing bike lanes installed next to SUDS (sustainalbe drainage) features We have received the email below about a drop-in, this Saturday 7 March, 10.30-2pm at the Botanics Visitor Centre. It is about... "sustainable drainage measures along the length of Arboretum Place and around the entrances to Inverleith Park and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, including placemaking opportunities between the two." We are disappointed there is no mention of improving cycling conditions at the same time, and indeed without such consideration, conditions could worsen. The current road layout already encourages car dominance, with long wide stretches. The opportunity could be taken to incorporate bike lanes along the whole of Arboretum Place, separated from the main carriageway by the sustainable drainage measures, as has been done in several other towns, such as these two examples from Waltham Forest in London image.png image.png Secondly, protected bike lanes along Arboretum Place could usefully be extended north along Arboretum Road to link to the Ferry Road bike lanes. Although these are now in poor condition they are due (eventually) to be converted into proper segregated lanes.

🙋 DROP-IN, Sat 7 March, 10.30-2pm, Botanics

#ArboretumPlace sustainable drainage #SUDS
- will this include 🚲 lane?

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