Five things you need to know today
Drop in sessions at Citizens Advice
There will be extra sessions at Citizens advice on Dundas Street each Thursday from 9.30am to 12.30pm. You don’t need an appointment.
Leith Theatre Heritage Tour
One of the next tours will take place on 5 April.
Critical Mass – Morningside Manoeuvre
Following a recent decision by the council to rip up the low traffic neighbourhood measures in Morningside and replace planters which act as modal filters with segregated cycle lanes, Critical Mass will visit the area on Saturday.
This decision was taken at the same council meeting when councillors mourned the loss of 11-year-old Thomas Wong on Whitehouse Road in Barnton who was cycling to school. But these measures will be scrapped in a move which council officers said would compromise safety close to schools and on a road often used by children for walking wheeling and cycling.
Braid Avenue and Braid Road will be opened to through traffic and a cycle lane – which officers estimate will cost around £400,000 to install – will be built. But a traffic filter on Whitehouse Loan south of Strathearn Road close to James Gillespie’s Primary School will stay and a new traffic filter will be brought in on Clinton Road around Church Hill and Pitsligo Road.
It was clear the road layout would change but only the SNP group rejected the result saying that the traffic filters on the Braid Estate “have made it safer for pedestrians”.
At the Leith Walk Police Box today
Functional Neurological Disorder is a brain network condition caused by a problem with the functioning of the nervous system. Living with FND can be confusing and alienating due to the lack of awareness about it so this stall is an opportunity to create better understanding and recognition of the condition for the FND community. It is FND Awareness Day in the UK today soon information stall has been organised and will be running from 11am to 6pm.
Monty of the police box said: “Come say hello and have a chat about FND with a cuppa if you’re about. Everyone is welcome!”
The Police box is at Croall Place on Leith Walk Croall Place, EH7 4LT.
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