Theme - Traffic & Movement
Active & Safe Travel |
The Local Place Plan should support safer school travel, improved village-centre pedestrian priority, better connections to rail and regional destinations, and targeted interventions on roads where speed, crossing safety, and pavement quality are recurring concerns.
Balerno should prioritise safer walking, better-managed traffic, reliable public transport, and targeted parking management. Balerno has grown as a village with new housing developments over the past ten years. The traffic infrastructure has not kept up with the increased demand, and is now creating issues at key times and key locations. In addition the ability to use public transport is restricted by Balerno being served by two buses. The Local Place Plan identifies transport, movement and accessibility as key priorities for the future of Balerno. Community responses indicate a strong desire for a safer, more accessible and better-connected village, where walking, wheeling and public transport are more practical for everyday journeys, while traffic impacts are managed in a way that protects residential amenity and village character. Objective: Balerno should function as a village where people of all ages and abilities can move safely and conveniently, with priority given to walking, wheeling, public transport and road safety. Future transport improvements should support access to schools, local services, community facilities, the village centre and wider regional connections. Below are draft Proposals from responses to the questionnaire relating to Transport and steps to promote Active Travel
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Image of parking on Main Street. Noted as one of the issues in the pedestrian zone
