£1.2 billion borough investment boom

PPPPPP

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Was it? I cycled from North end to doxey Road on Thursday? Unless you mean the stretch between doxey Road and sainsbury, that's closed as they are building the new Road on it.

Yes, that bit, so you either ride roughshod over the pavement or risk your junior cyclists getting flattened on a busy bit of road. Still, looking on the bright side, once the work starts properly the traffic won't be moving so it'll be much safer.
 

kyoto49

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The bypass goes between the lines and Sainsburys, you will have to cross the bypass. They said they would make it 'cycle safe' IIRC, so probably traffic lights on the roundabout.

There is a complete lack of consideration or understanding of what pedestrians and cyclist's need in Stafford isn't there? It's soul destroying. The whole point of cycling and walking along the present path to Sainsburys from the lines is that people DON'T need to juggle with their lives and mix with the traffic. Pedestrian crossing? Like the lights that car drivers ignore on a daily basis? Just on Tuesday I saw not one, but THREE cars overtake a line of stationary traffic at a red light and go straight through said red light just as a kid was in the process of crossing. Only by the grace of good luck is the kid still alive today. No-one in their right mind would cycle to town along the lines once the new road is built if it involves going anywhere near the traffic on a dual carriageway. Another bullet to the head of cycling and walking in Stafford. the place is run by f*cking IDIOTS!!!!
 

Gramaisc

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There is a complete lack of consideration or understanding of what pedestrians and cyclist's need in Stafford isn't there? It's soul destroying. The whole point of cycling and walking along the present path to Sainsburys from the lines is that people DON'T need to juggle with their lives and mix with the traffic. Pedestrian crossing? Like the lights that car drivers ignore on a daily basis? Just on Tuesday I saw not one, but THREE cars overtake a line of stationary traffic at a red light and go straight through said red light just as a kid was in the process of crossing. Only by the grace of good luck is the kid still alive today. No-one in their right mind would cycle to town along the lines once the new road is built if it involves going anywhere near the traffic on a dual carriageway. Another bullet to the head of cycling and walking in Stafford. the place is run by f*cking IDIOTS!!!!
That is a very fair assessment of 'our' transport policy.
 

1JKz

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I think the Royal Brine Baths were structurally unsafe and the upkeep cost was prohibitive, it happens like that sometimes......
You probably read this at the time of a consultation on whether to keep the building or not, no?

The argument for the knock down; it'd cost millions of pounds to keep it, become a squat, fall on someone and kill them dead, a fire hazard etc etc etc
All very typical, must have saved us hundreds of thousands of ...pence.
 

basil

don't mention the blinds
OK, so the Royal Brine Baths are still with us and what do we imagine the interior contains? ......
 
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