Agenda and minutes

Venue: Dean of Guild Court Room - City Chambers

Contact: Natalie Carter-Osborne  Carolanne Eyre

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No. Item

1.1

Order of Business

Including any notices of motion and any other items of business submitted as urgent for consideration at the meeting.

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2.1

Declaration of Interests

Members should declare any financial and non-financial interests they have in the items of business for consideration, identifying the relevant agenda item and the nature of their interest.

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3.1

Deputations

If any.

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4.1

Minutes pdf icon PDF 184 KB

Minute of the Transport and Environment Committee of 20 June 2024 – submitted for approval as a correct record.

 

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5.1

Work Programme pdf icon PDF 165 KB

Transport and Environment Committee Work Programme

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5.2

Rolling Actions Log pdf icon PDF 863 KB

Transport and Environment Committee Rolling Actions Log

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6.1

Business Bulletin pdf icon PDF 251 KB

Transport and Environment Business Bulletin

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7.1

Update on Council Transport Arms Length Companies pdf icon PDF 182 KB

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7.2

St James Quarter – Introduction of a Traffic Regulation Order pdf icon PDF 3 MB

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7.3

Strategic Review of Parking Monitoring Update pdf icon PDF 2 MB

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7.4

Low Emission Zone (LEZ) – summer 2024 update pdf icon PDF 427 KB

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7.5

Local Traffic Improvement - Delivery Programme pdf icon PDF 703 KB

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7.6

Trial of 7-7-7 Bus Lanes pdf icon PDF 341 KB

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7.7

Implementing the Footway Parking Prohibition pdf icon PDF 176 KB

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8.1

Ellersly and Kinellan Roads pdf icon PDF 150 KB

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8.2

Appointments to the Boards of Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams pdf icon PDF 99 KB

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9.1

Motion by Councillor Ross - Road Resurfacing and Resident Co-ordination

Motion by Councillor Ross - Road Resurfacing and Resident Co-ordination

 

“Committee:

1.  notes the Council’s road surface treatment contractor has again encountered difficulties this year in completing jobs as specified because vehicles remained parked on the road.

2.  notes this has resulted in a range of missed patches, varying from single vehicle shaped patches to long, multi vehicle stretches. These missed patches have sometimes remained untreated until the contractor returns the following year,

3.  notes residents are notified in advance of the road surface works starting.

4.  requests a business bulletin update in three cycles on how this process can be improved with a view to reducing, or ideally eliminating, the occurrence of missed patches and including consideration of the types of notification that could be given and to whom, the length of time in advance that leaflets are delivered and notices are posted in the street and the effectiveness of vehicle removals/relocations.”

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9.2

Motion by Councillor Lang - Delivering the committee's decision on Cammo Road

Motion by Councillor Lang - Delivering the committee's decision on Cammo Road

“Committee

  1. notes the decision of the committee on 25 April 2024 with respect to Cammo Road, namely “to consider the next steps at the May committee, if no guarantee can be provided that works [on the Craigs Road / Maybury Road junction] would commence in the next six months, the agreed ETRO closure trial on Cammo Road would be commenced immediately, with the evaluation report brought back to committee in due course.”
  2. notes that no guarantee has since been provided.
  3. therefore agrees that officers should commence the agreed ETRO through-road closure of Cammo Road immediately.”

 

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9.3

Motion by Councillor Whyte - Mass Rapid Transit in Edinburgh

Motion by Councillor Whyte - Mass Rapid Transit in Edinburgh

 

“Committee:

 

  1. notes that some six months have passed since the Committee acknowledged that the further expansion of the Tram network in the city requires an initial unfunded £44m to develop the Outline and Full Business Cases and that Committee is yet to receive a formal update on approaches to the Scottish Government seeking funding for this work
  2. further notes that the initial estimates of the funding required to complete a north-south tram link from Granton to the Bioquarter sit at £2 Billion, that this is likely to increase as the delivery timescale is expected at 10-20 years, and that no funds have been identified to achieve this;
  3. additionally notes that it is Council policy to press ahead with a City Mobility Plan that relies on a Mass Rapid Transit system to replace current travel modes and that suggested implementation dates are relatively short;
  4. therefore agrees that a report should be provided to a future Committee meeting (within six months) setting out the possible options for moving ahead with a Bus Rapid Transit system for the north-south and other potential routes recognising that such a system could be replaced by Tram in the longer term and that evidence from the Belfast Glider system indicates that this could be achieved in a quarter to a third of the time of Tram implementation, at potentially one tenth of the cost and with similar short to medium term transport outcomes;
  5. further agrees that the report should provide short medium and long term cost benefit analysis of alternative systems, clarify likely costs and delivery timescales within an Edinburgh context, set out the relative flexibility of each system and provide outlines of possible funding methods available to the Council.”

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10.1

Resolution to Consider in Private

The Committee, is requested under Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, to exclude the public from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they would involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs [xx] of Part 1 of Schedule 7A of the Act.

 

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11.1

Edinburgh Bus Station Options Appraisal Update

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