Readers' Best Comments

A supermarket on stilts is planned but with ruined roads and people being blocked in will we be able to get there?

Developers want to build a split-level supermarket on the site of a former B&Q store. You were all very enthusiastic

Who cares just as long as the empty warehouse is actually used.

Angus Mcdonald, Edinburgh

As usual you will no doubt get the usual objectors complaining about something petty, which in turn will delay any development.

r chee bold

Waitrose in Morningside and Comely Bank have car parks on the roof... this is hardly new thinking.

fcuk

It will be dead handy when all this global warming nonsense comes true and half the world's under water.

bikerider1

An area already struggling to cope with traffic volumes hardly needs more traffic attracted to it. Other than that nothing new here.

Nitpicking, Edinburgh

We are such a third-rate country-we lived in Singapore nearly 20 years ago and all the carparks were underground – sometimes several levels - never a problem!

ianpg, Musselburgh

It's not just car parking that set our readers off, three quarters of Scots are angry about poor road maintenance following the bad weather

What maintenance has taken place anyway??

TankEngine, Edinburgh

Sick of hearing about the severe winter and the results, I tried cycling the other day rather than using the car and the roads are a disgrace. Maintenance, the council does not know what the word means.

The Real Alfonsa Pedrosa, edinburgh

Amongst other things, motorists want more money spent on roads, everything to do with the cost of running a car reduced and all other road users removed (and apparently quite a lot of them have an important phone call to make that can't wait until they stop). Just assume these things and don't report them as news.

Ron D, Enybru

To be fair to the motorist, approximately 80% of the cost of fuel is tax. Annual car tax. Tax paid on car insurance. VAT on new cars. Showroom tax on new cars. Tax on all car accessories (tyres, oil, wipers, filters etc.) Tax on servicing. Annual MOT (a form of taxation?). Cost of a driving licence. Parking fees (another form of tax?). Driving lessons (which include tax). AND they don't get to drive on the green bits... I wonder if there is any other group that is taxed so heavily for the privilege of dodging potholes?

Eric The Archer, Edinburgh

A city resident's car was blocked into her drive after gas workers dug a trench across it without warning her

They tried knocking on the door but she wasn't in. Probably because she was at work, shopping, generally having a life, she cant wait in 24/7 in case gas workers come to her door. Why couldn't they have put a letter through her door or a notice next to the work site or something?!

Chirpy Council Worker

Can't see the problem myself. She came home to find she couldn't move her car on Wednesday night. By Thursday, the situation was sorted.

fcuk

You lot are funny. Bet if the same thing had happened to you, you'd have kicked up a fuss.

Diana, Edinburgh