René Winkler
@verdantrene.bsky.social
Historian of knowledge🇪🇺🏳️🌈 - Interested in the history of natural history and collecting in early modern Scotland - Sibbald, Balfour, Wodrow
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#Edinburgh needs a de-congestion charge too.
As well as making public transport quicker and raising funds to further improve it - the New York
Congestion Relief Zone has cut both crashes and injuries by 50%+.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
As well as making public transport quicker and raising funds to further improve it - the New York
Congestion Relief Zone has cut both crashes and injuries by 50%+.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
Congestion Relief Zone is Also a CRASH Relief Zone: Data - Streetsblog New York City
Congestion pricing critics will have one less reason to say the toll isn't working
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#Edinburgh needs a de-congestion charge too.
As well as making public transport quicker and raising funds to further improve it - the New York
Congestion Relief Zone has cut both crashes and injuries by 50%+.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
As well as making public transport quicker and raising funds to further improve it - the New York
Congestion Relief Zone has cut both crashes and injuries by 50%+.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
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When the scaffolding comes off in 2025 for a project that was due to be completed in 2020 - any normal city would now extend the pavement and not return it to parking or (effectively) a dual carriageway in a World Heritage Site.
It’s one of Edinburgh’s busiest pavements. What will #Edinburgh do?
It’s one of Edinburgh’s busiest pavements. What will #Edinburgh do?
Scaffolding to be removed from G&V Hotel – at last
The plastic covered scaffolding wrapped around the facade of the former G&V Hotel on George IV Bridge has been there for so long that it is difficult to remember what it was like before. In an update to councillors, a timetable has been uncovered…
The plastic covered scaffolding wrapped around the facade of the former G&V Hotel on George IV Bridge has been there for so long that it is difficult to remember what it was like before. In an update to councillors, a timetable has been uncovered…
Scaffolding to be removed from G&V Hotel – at last
The plastic covered scaffolding wrapped around the facade of the former G&V Hotel on George IV Bridge has been there for so long that it is difficult to remember what it was like before. In an update to councillors, a timetable has been uncovered confirming that scaffolding on one side will be removed by next month. The statement from council officers reads: "Work at the G&V Hotel was originally scheduled to commence and complete in 2020.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
When the scaffolding comes off in 2025 for a project that was due to be completed in 2020 - any normal city would now extend the pavement and not return it to parking or (effectively) a dual carriageway in a World Heritage Site.
It’s one of Edinburgh’s busiest pavements. What will #Edinburgh do?
It’s one of Edinburgh’s busiest pavements. What will #Edinburgh do?
Leningrad: 67 years. Stalingrad: 26 years. Horst-Wessel-Stadt: 12 years. Gulf of America: ?
January 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Leningrad: 67 years. Stalingrad: 26 years. Horst-Wessel-Stadt: 12 years. Gulf of America: ?
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Dr Simon Buck (IASH) & Bianca Packham (Heritage Collections) announce "Dreams of Darien", an online Library exhibition on the University of Edinburgh's links to the Darien 'scheme' and the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (1695-1707).
exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
University of Edinburgh Exhibitions | Dreams of Darien
The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (1695-1707) was a joint-stock company, incorporated by an Act of Scottish Parliament, most well known for attempting to establish the Scottish ...
exhibitions.ed.ac.uk
November 19, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Dr Simon Buck (IASH) & Bianca Packham (Heritage Collections) announce "Dreams of Darien", an online Library exhibition on the University of Edinburgh's links to the Darien 'scheme' and the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (1695-1707).
exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/...