RE: Roadworks aren't working: PH Blog
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Digga said:
ad, is that you?
All good, but we'd all have to put up with significant cost inflation for goods and services - everything from your online shopping delivery to the journey made by the guy servicing your washing machine/central heating/wife.
Not at all. In fact the opposite. I'm not advocating pricing commercial traffic upwards. And with the emptier roads this key traffic will move more quickly and efficiently. All good, but we'd all have to put up with significant cost inflation for goods and services - everything from your online shopping delivery to the journey made by the guy servicing your washing machine/central heating/wife.
Commercial traffic wins. Enthusiasts win. Business wins. The only people who lose are the type of punter that thinks going shopping is some form of recreation. Frankly, I think they would be getting off lightly.
LivewareProblem said:
I would be much happier if I saw roadworks being a 24 hour operation, too many times I see stretches of Motorway closed for f
k all, no-ones there!
it is, most roadworks are done from 2200hrs and some from 2100 hrs unless its an urgent repair, I know cos i take the call and set the sigsk all, no-ones there!Online shopping, there's another bugbear of mine, it's killing the high streets... go into a big town like Guildford and they're full of nothing but high-end fashion which nobody ever actually buys...
We used to have a huge and brilliantly effective rail network which transported passengers and distributed goods efficiently to every town and village. Now it's a far shadow of what it once was, thanks to Marples, Castle et al. So much of today's traffic jams could and should be on the railways instead. All this smart motorway bks - imagine how many significant railways (e.g. Great Central, Somerset & Dorset) that could have reopened? There used to be a line linking Didcot and Southampton too, carried a lot of freight in its day, but that's now got the bloody Newbury bypass all over the trackbed...
We used to have a huge and brilliantly effective rail network which transported passengers and distributed goods efficiently to every town and village. Now it's a far shadow of what it once was, thanks to Marples, Castle et al. So much of today's traffic jams could and should be on the railways instead. All this smart motorway b
ks - imagine how many significant railways (e.g. Great Central, Somerset & Dorset) that could have reopened? There used to be a line linking Didcot and Southampton too, carried a lot of freight in its day, but that's now got the bloody Newbury bypass all over the trackbed...RoverP6B said:
Online shopping, there's another bugbear of mine, it's killing the high streets...
Good. High street shopping deserves to die. I'd say the sooner the better but in return for the experience High Street shops deliver I'm actually pleased that they're being tortured slowly to death. High street shopping is a dismal hate filled journey into parking tickets, miserable, stupid, shop staff and the pointless need to visit a dozen places to get anything done.jnoiles said:
Good. High street shopping deserves to die. I'd say the sooner the better but in return for the experience High Street shops deliver I'm actually pleased that they're being tortured slowly to death. High street shopping is a dismal hate filled journey into parking tickets, miserable, stupid, shop staff and the pointless need to visit a dozen places to get anything done.
Not my experience generally - it's the enclosed shopping malls I hate. I make a particular point of supporting various independent local shops, especially my excellent local bookshop. I refuse to use Amazon etc and try also to minimise my use of supermarkets. If I have to pay a quid or two extra for something, and that's the price of keeping my friendly local traders in business, so be it... parking can be a pain, but it's usually possible to park legally at a reasonable price, if not for free.TooMany2cvs said:
Somebody must be, else the shops would go out of business...
In Guildford, they do with monotonous regularity. Low turnover plus stratospheric rents, but nobody ever learns because nobody worthwhile can afford the rents and the landlords won't learn by lowering them...Mojocvh said:
The A1.
That is all.
I've started using the A1 to get to Nottingham now (rather than the M1) because even if it's only 2 lanes for most of the way it's still more interesting than the miles of roadworks.That is all.
The only regular problem is the roundabout where the A421 meets the A1 just north of Sandy.
This is the Forth road bridge of roundabout roadworks - as soon as they finish, the next set of works starts. It's been constantly widened and revised for much of the last 15 years.
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