6.1 There is an overwhelming body of opinion among the people living and working within the Terraces in favour of keeping the right hand turn from London Road into Blenheim Place open.
6.2 This web site has presented a series of arguments and objections to the closure on the basis of:
6.3 The reasons for closing this right hand turn have been shown to be flawed.
6.4 An accompanying technical report by Goodson Cole Transportation has outlined a simple alternative to the closure of the right hand turn into Blenheim Place.
6.5 We recommend that the City of Edinburgh Council review and redesign the Blenheim Place junction to allow a right hand turn from London Road into Blenheim Place.
6.6 We recommend that the City of Edinburgh Council investigate methods of traffic calming along Royal Terrace.
For more information, please contact
The Keep
Blenheim Place Open Group
Also known as Royal, Regent & Carlton Steering Group
5 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5AB
Tel. 0131-557 5739
E-mail: visit
http://scr.im/cnimmo
For
technical web-site matters, please contact the current
webmaster;
Jonathan
Baillie Strong
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Updated December 2010
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