Corstorphine residents celebrated success recently following the completion of a successful partnership project, enabling residents to walk more for every day, local journeys.
Kirk Loan Residents Association have been working with Living Streets Scotland and the city council to get improvements made to local streets, meaning many residents can now reach the local shops and bus stop, instead of feeling isolated in their accommodation.
Over lunch, the residents shared their happiness at what the new pavement means to them and how it has changed their every day walking:
- ‘I think it’s a damn good thing we’ve done here.’
- ‘It’s made a big difference.’
- ‘It’s a lot safer to walk on.’
The residents are proud to have achieved this change themselves, and now feel empowered with knowledge on how to request safer streets in the future by using the Guide to Getting Better Streets and Pavements, which they co-produced with Living Streets Scotland.
There is still some work that Kirk Loan residents would like to see done, which they discussed while getting out onto the new pathway which makes accessing St John’s Road easier and safer.
One resident commented on how changes ‘have not stopped people driving onto the pavements on the double red lines’, as well as the new railings having already been driven into, knocking one end sideways.
Sheltered Housing Coordinator for Trust Housing Jo Grayland has already reported the problem, highlighting that this community is determined to keep up the current improvements, and rally for more!
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