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JAW-JAW ON GEORGE STREET

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Stakeholders and Council officials met today in a public meeting to discuss the latest visitor research findings on the George Street experimental lay-out.

The figures were compiled by interviewing 100 people each month in March, April and May this year.

Attached below are the raw data presented at the meeting, and a presentation by CEC’s Iain MacPhail.

Summarising what had been learned from the trial so far, MacPhail highlighted:

  • Need to preserve symmetry of street layout
  • Civic uses should not be permanently blocked by private/corporate structures/enclosures
  • Desirability of improved cycle facilities and segregated cycle lane
  • Importance of accessibility
  • Majority support for limited retention of car parking spaces
  • Flexible patterns of use for different times of year
  • Need for clutter-free access
  • Barriers needed to exclude non-compliant drivers
  • Buses and taxis found fault with experimental layout
  • Need to facilitate cross-city traffic, especially at Hanover Street.

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For more on this story, see Letters (22.6.15). UPDATE (25 JUNE 2015): Minutes of the 15.6.15 meeting are now attached below.

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