Stafford Traffic.

Benedict

Benedict

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You would think the council could at least put a sign up explaining what they doing and why, This Dickensian council attitute of 'need to know' is insulting and patronising..
 
Cue

Cue

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Cue said:
I used to live off Douglas Road, my car's still recovering from it.

Is The Hough owned by the council? Because if anything down Lichfield Road needs doing it's that car park.
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I just went down Douglas for the first time since we moved. Holy hell is it worse, I'm pretty sure there are third world countries with roads that will do less damage to your car.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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Cue said:
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I just went down Douglas for the first time since we moved. Holy hell is it worse, I'm pretty sure there are third world countries with roads that will do less damage to your car.
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This IS a third world country ( backwater )
 
Steve_b

Steve_b

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Was on Chell Road today, was the usual car park, along with Newport Rd & Station Rd, no wonder no-one wants to go into town!
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Western Power are digging up Greyfriars now. This may not improve the situation there...

The sign said something about "one way", but I wasn't able to digest it all.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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A miracle has happened!

The futile traffic lights at the first Chebsey turn out of Great Bridgeford on the Eccleshall road have been removed - I nearly stopped anyway, just out of habit.
 
proactive

proactive

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So will the council officer or engineer who thought putting them there in the first place was a good idea be reimbursing the public purse for this blatant waste of taxpayers money?

No of course not because it's not like real money is it!


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Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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proactive said:
So will the council officer or engineer who thought putting them there in the first place was a good idea be reimbursing the public pure for this blatant waste of taxpayers money?

No of course not because it's not like real money is it!
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I wonder if it was railway subsidy money that paid for them?

Still "ours" in the end, I agree.
 
stelladog

stelladog

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Hi everyone, after spending a few years out in the UK wilderness...and then Market Drayton...my wife and I are looking to move back to the A34 corridor. We went to see a house today on Parkside, but have a suspicion from recent experiences that the traffic on Sandon Road and onwards towards the motorway junction could be terrible in the morning rush. Are we right?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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stelladog said:
Hi everyone, after spending a few years out in the UK wilderness...and then Market Drayton...my wife and I are looking to move back to the A34 corridor. We went to see a house today on Parkside, but have a suspicion from recent experiences that the traffic on Sandon Road and onwards towards the motorway junction could be terrible in the morning rush. Are we right?
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If you have time constraints that commit you to joining in the daily lemming runs, then Stafford in general can be a little fraught, but Parkside to Junction 14 might be one of the easier routes. Others with more experience may be along shortly, I just try to avoid the issue.

If the house is in the 'old' Parkside, i.e., south of Beaconside, then turning left in the morning may not be too bad and turning right back in in the evening isn't desperately hard. If the house is one of the new ones north of Beaconside, then turning right out of there in the morning may be a real issue...
 
C

cj1

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agree it is one of the easier routes at present but with lots of developments going on in the area over the next few years that could change. but don't let that put you off can't ever see it getting really bad on a daily basis.
 
stelladog

stelladog

A few posts under my belt
Thank you :)

It's on the Parkside Avenue estate, so would you consider that 'old'? I figure that you are referring to the new development still under construction when you say 'new'?
 
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