Craigleith Crescent
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Craigleith Crescent
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 16 Sep 2021
Craigleith Crescent is a spacious street that meanders gently to its junction with Queensferry Road. It used to be quite wide enough for traffic turning left to do so while other traffic waited for a rare opportunity to turn right. However Edinburgh Council, as part of its long-term vendetta again motorists, has seen fit to install cycle lanes, delineated by unsightly black-topped white poles, all along Queensferry Road and at the end of Craigleith Crescent, with the result that there's only room now for a single queue of cars. Anyone wanting to turn left now has to wait, wasting fuel and adding to pollution while they do so, until any vehicles ahead of them have been lucky enough to be able to make a right turn across both lanes of traffic on the main road. I suppose it could have been worse. They could have put in a roundabout like they did at the end of Belford Road, giving all traffic on the side road priority over traffic on the main road.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.956416
Longitude
-3.24473