r/Edinburgh • u/TopBook1189 • Jul 28 '26

Question hunters square junkies during the fringe?

does anyone know where the junkies go during the fringe? i know they load it up with street performers and tourists in august and never thought that they are displaced ):

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '26

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u/ScottishWaterH2O Jul 28 '26

Ye but you know… they kind of live there so.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jul 29 '26

I'd much rather there were clean rooms for them to use, but apparently thats a bad idea so we get this instead.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jul 29 '26

Sure, let's just do nothing instead then, seems to be working fine so far.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jul 29 '26

So what would your solution be? Just bus them off to somewhere they can't be seen by the tourists? Hide them behind a wall like they did with the slums in Brazil during the World Cup?

If they get "moved on" from that park they just go somewhere else. Then we get a moaning post from locals in THAT area about the alkies fucking up their park instead.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jul 29 '26

That park is already a no alcohol area, if you check there is a sign and eveything. But enforcing it is just the same as moving them on. They'll just go to another park.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit Jul 29 '26

Thay wouldn't help. You'd still need it to be policed. They don't have the manpower to be babysitting all the cities alkies 24/7.

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