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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20080121
Author:Andrew Picken

IT was the Capital's most illustrious spy - no, not Sir Sean - Daniel Defoe who famously remarked that "In no city in the world so many people live in so little room as at Edinburgh".

Things today are not as tight as they were in Defoe's day but we still live and work in such close quarters that even the slightest tweak to the city landscape, from collapsed buildings to roadworks, can result in chaos.

This was more than evident during the traffic management reorganisation in 2005, which was eventually partially overturned after a campaign by the News. This disaster is still fresh in the ...

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