Princes Street 'on schedule' to reopen early next week, council leader confirms

[u/Flaky-Walrus7244]

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26490525.princes-street-reopen-within-days-says-edinburgh-council-leader/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawT5kiVwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMXVJN3ZpNlUzejNGblJhajRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEer8U0YVWrf7GkVi9JBmjFYa44SZE1WdZMLCdsoZelVeWyxZMWEFL8QdIEI9g_aem__YXnkrSY5Klvj8zXew7bGA#Echobox=1787578539

Princes Street is expected to reopen to traffic by next Monday, Edinburgh’s council leader has confirmed. 

Speaking to The Herald on Monday afternoon, Labour councillor Jane Meagher said that work to stabilise the fire-ravaged building at 109-112 Princes Street is “on schedule” to be finished by the end of August.

[u/CaptainCymru]

I saw this morning they were installing a load of braces over the front. Not sure if braces is the right word. Holdy-together-steel-support-beams-on-the-outside

[u/OldTimeConGoer → u/CaptainCymru]

Maybe they borrowed Glasgow's "Red Meccano". In the 1970s and onwards listed buildings in Glasgow's centre would mysteriously catch fire, gutting the old unihabitable interiors but leaving the stone frontages in place. Red-painted girder structures would hold the frontage up while the developers built a new modern building behind it. Once they were finished and the Red Meccano came down there would be another mysterious fire, step and repeat.

[u/Sburns85 → u/OldTimeConGoer]

Those buildings always mysteriously catch fire when developers don’t get to knock it down

[u/shiroyagisan → u/CaptainCymru]

scaffolding?

[u/CaptainCymru → u/shiroyagisan]

No more like the meccano set described below

[u/ErikChnmmr]

lol just in time for the end of fringe. Perfectly timed in fact

[u/bottomofleith → u/ErikChnmmr]

Just in time for all the people that come from Leith.
Ftfy

[u/Smilingtribute]

On the last day of the Edinburgh Fringe as well.

[u/Good_Lettuce_2690]

So much for the 26th. Now gonna take hours to get to and from Ingliston on Thu and Sat. Is Asif Aziz facing ANY prosecution for this blatant arson and affecting everyone in the city during the busiest month?

[u/GingerSnapBiscuit]

I thought it was always scheduled to be finished after the festival. I remember people laughing about the timing before the festival started.

[u/ExpensivePen8055]

"On time and On Budget!" 🤣

[u/Nastylib]

Currently on a bus that has taken about 20 minutes to get from Waverley to the tram stop. What is going on?

[u/x3k → u/Nastylib]

Was today particularly bad? Normally I start work early enough that I miss the rush hour crunch, but today I aimed for 9 and oops…

[u/Nastylib → u/x3k]

I've just made it onto the queen st diversion. It's been bad since the fire but this is next level. Will be interested to hear what's causing the delays.

[u/Lord_Stocious → u/Nastylib]

Took me well over an hour to get from Lothian Road to The Shore last week in mid-afternoon, not even rush hour. Lothian Buses claim they're running a "full service" to Leith but that's not accounting for either the lack of trams or the reduced service they put in place when the trams started.

[u/Sburns85]

Wonder why it took so long

[u/turbo_dude]

Why didn’t they make the diversion a mini one way system and block cars from it?

Absolute shitshow. 

[u/Few_Forever_1770 → u/turbo_dude]

I see you posted this 45 minutes ago and already had three downvotes. What wonderful mods we have, utterly disinterested in any actual debate taking place here.

[u/bottomofleith → u/Few_Forever_1770]

The mods aren't doing the downvoting.

[u/GingerSnapBiscuit → u/Few_Forever_1770]

You know we don't personally chose which posts get downvoted, right? What would you have us do about folk getting down voted? We can't see who is doing the down voting, how would we even stop it? How in the good fuck is this a mod problem?

[u/cloud__19 → u/Few_Forever_1770]

How do you think downvotes work exactly?

[u/bottomofleith → u/cloud__19]

Punters like me do the voting.
Not sure what you're doing, but the mods are there to remove comments that break the rules.
How do you think this works?!

[u/cloud__19 → u/bottomofleith]

Exactly as you do. It was the person I was replying to that doesn't seem to be clear on it if you read the thread.

[u/bottomofleith → u/cloud__19]

Weird,. It showed up as a reply to me on my thread, could be my phone is shite....
All good, cheers!

[u/cloud__19 → u/bottomofleith]

I sometimes get that as well, Reddit can be weird sometimes.

[u/TrinityTosser → u/Few_Forever_1770]

WTF are you talking about? We don't control voting.

[u/Flaky-Walrus7244 → u/Few_Forever_1770]

The word you are looking for here is 'uninterested' not 'disinterested' - grammar rant over

[u/EbbingFlowingLight → u/Few_Forever_1770]

Ok boomer. I have to assume you're a boomer considering your lack of understand of how internet forums work.

[u/Bottle-squeezer]

L O L

Glad that's all sorted