The Hawk
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Corrected that for you.Besides, Stafford already has a car park. It's called the M6.
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Corrected that for you.Besides, Stafford already has a car park. It's called the M6.
Despite the Lichfield Road getting ever busier !That plan was shelved/cancelled/ditched years ago.
The bypass opened this week is mostly over green fields not through a brownfield site.It's one thing building a bypass over brownfield, quite another over greenfield in this day and age. It was never going to happen in the 70s, 80s and 90s, nevermind in the ecomentalist age we live in now.
Besides, Stafford already has a bypass. It's called the M6.
I had a job reducing the scale of a tree in a councillor's garden during one of the resurgences of the Great Plan from the 1930s.That plan was shelved/cancelled/ditched years ago.
But it's ok to build hundreds of houses on greenfield land so is there really any difference?It's one thing building a bypass over brownfield, quite another over greenfield in this day and age. It was never going to happen in the 70s, 80s and 90s, nevermind in the ecomentalist age we live in now.
Besides, Stafford already has a bypass. It's called the M6.
Are there any maps showing where it would be routed?The bypass opened this week is mostly over green fields not through a brownfield site.
Beaconside through to Lichfield Road, and on to Wolverhampton Road, was planned not long after the M6 was built so it wasn't going to be one or the other.
There were various largely similar plans, amended as the years went past and more stuff was built in the way. There was a sudden resurgence in the 70s, when Beaconside was extended from Sandon Road to the Redhill roundabout. In general, the southern extension would have followed the now Hydrant Way, past St Thomas's farm, down the river valley, through the Walton/Milford boundary, then round the back of Walton, past Acton Hill and on to the Catch Corner area, possibly with a separate junction, as is there now, rather than straight onto the J14 roundabout.Are there any maps showing where it would be routed?
The old (1960s) plans were for a variety of routes (labelled something like A to G) which, one by one were all dismissed until there were none left.Are there any maps showing where it would be routed?
It’ll only go from the Tixal Road to Baswich Lane at St Thomas Priory then along Baswich Lane.That plan was shelved/cancelled/ditched years ago.
Housing for the homeless.But it's ok to build hundreds of houses on greenfield land so is there really any difference?
You start far too early for me to have given you a wave...................Used it this morning to get to work, defiantly quicker for me as it saves me having to go to & round the windmill roundabout and back on myself to get to my car park.
Normal way home though for me, its quicker that way!
I knew I should have given you a flash!You start far too early for me to have given you a wave...................
I knew I should have given you a flash!
Yes indeed.Friday's experience was another example that the town has nothing really resembling a bypass anywhere anymore.
Went to a funeral at Berkswish Methodist, then committal at the crem and then onto Rangers for the wake.
The whole experience of being in floods of kids from Walton, and then queueing through areas of Baswich showed how under pressure roads are, then going from the crem to Rangers wasn't a quick experience but traffic did just keep moving. The horse bolted long ago for Stafford to have any sort of bypass so anybody using that word to describe any new road in this town does not have a grasp of the meaning!
We will just have a series of roads linking estate to estate and when the M6 snarls up I just wonder what that will bring to the SWAR if people follow updated sat navs?