Edinburgh Evening News Morning Update 10 April, 2025

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00:00This is your morning update for Thursday the 10th of April 2025.

00:05Brought to you by the Edinburgh Evening News.

00:09New speed cameras to be switched on next week to improve road safety.

00:13Two Edinburgh streets will see fixed speed cameras operating around the clock in a bid to improve road safety.

00:19From Monday the 14th of April, two fixed speed GATSO cameras will commence enforcement on Maryburn Road and Liberton Gardens, Edinburgh.

00:26The camera on Maryburn Road will enforce eastbound traffic, while on Liberton Gardens, southbound traffic will be monitored.

00:33The fixed cameras will replace the mobile enforcement that had been in place in each of the locations.

00:39With speed surveys finding that a significant number of motorists were travelling above the 30 miles per hour speed limit,

00:44and a disproportionate number of offences were occurring out with hours of mobile enforcement,

00:49Police Scotland felt the locations would benefit from a trial of fixed camera technology.

00:53Former Edinburgh Post Office to be demolished and replaced with new 11-bed hotel.

01:00Plans have been approved to demolish a former Morningside Post Office,

01:03and build a new 11-room hotel with a restaurant and bakery.

01:07The redevelopment of 265 Morningside Road will create an 11-bedroom hotel with restaurant, bar and bakery facilities,

01:14after Pentland Investments Looted's planning application was accepted by the Council's planning department on April 8th.

01:20Edinburgh councillors reveal 70% of active travel projects have been delayed.

01:27Concerns have been raised about projects designed to improve walking and cycling routes across Edinburgh after it emerged.

01:33Some had been delayed by as long as 10 years.

01:36City councillors revealed that 27 of 39 active travel projects being worked on by the Council have slipped beyond their original completion date.

01:43Green's co-leader and councillor, Chas Booth Group, has urged officers to take action on the delays in an emergency motion.

01:51It further said that funding and staffing resources, as well as some of the bureaucracy involved in building new infrastructure, was to blame.

01:59The delays were made public in a response to a question at a full Council meeting last year.

02:04Among the delayed projects are improvements to active travel in Charlotte Square,

02:08which has seen its completion date push back from 2016 to 2027.

02:13For more news go to edinborownews.scotsman.com

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