There are many appropriate uses for sarcasm, but it is as a response to being patronised where it is at its most beautiful!
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Based purely on observations while walking, the New Town private gardens are rarely busy. Surely, catchment areas can be expanded to provide more refuge to residents? It would bring in more income and serve more than a privileged community. I speak as a slightly bitter resident of Leslie Place
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Offensive graffiti can be removed on request. Comments/complaints to Edinburgh Council via the usual channels. (Oversight is by the Public Transport Team, not Cleansing)
Your readers may like to know, re bus shelter cleaning: JCDecaux shelters in the City Centre are cleaned weekly. Outwith the city centre once every 2 weeks. They're cleaned by JCDecaux. All other Council shelters are supposedly cleaned once/56 days; currently sub-contracted from JCDecaux to Mitie.
Comments thread at foot of article now includes observations by a civil engineer, who says Council is right to take the issues seriously.
@spurtle.bsky.social · last mo.POWDERHALL BRIDGE LATEST.—Council responds to 11 questions. See update below article here: www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/powderh... #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #transport
Could it be triggered by the heavier weight of e-bikes I wonder?
These connections are critical to the bridge and the council is right to take it seriously.
The splitting is so serious because it is in the first diagonal members of the longest span. This is where the greatest forces in the diagonal truss members are.
