Is this the decade of the bollards? - The Edinburgh Reporter

Paul from Fountainbridge is a regular correspondent and user of social media.

@fountainbridge will reach him

This year he has started off with a simple message. Is this the decade when the bollards will be fixed? He has been promised endlessly that the mechanism would be reengineered and made to work again.

He has sent this message to local councillors : “Do you think the automatic bollards that are supposed to protect the city’s pedestrian zones will be fixed this decade? I was told these would be fixed “after the festival” – I should have asked which year.
“Council policy is pedestrians first. Councils actions say pedestrians last.
“Photos attached from Saturday 4th January 2020 taken during the hours of pedestrian zone operation.”

Well the bollards are certainly not fixed yet – but maybe soon?

UPDATE – Councillor Macinnes replied on 7 January 2020. She wrote : “ATG, the Council’s bollard contractor, will be finalising repairs to the automatic bollards towards the end of January (2020). Subject to there being no issues with these final repairs we expect the bollards to be fully operational in February (2020).”