Agenda item

By Councillor Munro - Experimental Traffic Regulation Orders (ETROs)

“Committee

I.      Notes the majority decision taken on 1 September 2022 to approve the recommendations of report 7.7 on “Active Travel Measures - Travelling Safely Update”, including progressing the listed projects to experimental traffic regulation orders (ETROs).

II.    Notes that, ten months on, these ETROs are still to be correctly advertised due to errors in both the original orders and the revised orders from the external consultant engaged by the City of Edinburgh Council. This means the consultation with the public will result in a further 28 month delay which is far from acceptable.

III.   Notes the delays have caused public outrage, consultation fatigue and a lack of trust in the Council to deliver the outcomes residents want.

IV.  Requests that officers provide a public statement on the legal status of the ETROs and detailing the errors in the originally advertised ETRO.

V.    Committee further instructs that a public report is produced detailing the costs, the legal implications, the sign off process for the ETROs and why they went to badly wrong.  

The Committee also urgently agrees to revisit the decision of 1 September 2022 and exclude the following schemes from the current ETRO process, all of which saw high volumes of negative feedback from local residents in the original consultation.

a) Braid Road and the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route schemes.

b) Comiston Road

c) Duddingston Road

d) Duddingston Road West

e) Lanark Road

f) Silverknowes Road North;

g) Silverknowes Road South”