If I was a young bloke I’d hate living where I do now, it’s boring. I’d definitely want to be in a city centre. If I worked in or near town and was in my 20’s I’d want to be somewhere near the Marina or Queens Gardens. I can see the appeal for the younger generation where going out and socialising is a massive part of life. Not so much these days though. That’s because , like the village where I live, I’m boring.
i can agree with that and hull city centre is actually one of my favs as its almost all pedestranised walk from the station all to the marina only crossing one road... they need to sort out paragon though, and having to cross a buss entrance to get to st stepens is bonkers
Near me they put bollards between the vehicle traffic and the cycle traffic which stops cars getting out of the way.
Not quite sure how you get from the fact that the brutalist architecture and hopeless estate planning of the 1950s and 60s being a patently obvious failure equates to giving up hope of a better future, but hey ho. I'd hazard a guess that you never lived in such a place though.
ulez zones piss me off too, its essentially a poor persons charge either ban all cars at certain times of the day or none
You could be in luck. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1886427/new-game-changing-mini-ikea-locations
Emergency vehicles can use bus lanes, you can also pull into a bus lane to allow emergency vehicles to pass, the same is also true of cycle lanes.
You cant get into the cycle lanes if bollards divide them from vehicles I know not all cycle lanes are bollarded off but some are due to "planning initiatives".
A better idea would be for all the lefty guardian readers to move into 15 minute cities where they can all chat to each other about their contribution to reducing global warming. This leaves us normal sane people to go about our business unhindered and without listening to the brainwashed nonsense that the aforementioned revel in.
There’s doing things differently and there’s doing nothing at all. It would be nice if more people saw the benefit of trying something new, rather than submitting to past failures. This isn’t to prove a point, but I actually used to live in a lovely 60s flat and enjoyed the many years I spent there until the landlord sold it and I had to move. The building was considered quite desirable and the rents have almost doubled since then. To be fair, it had been given some proper TLC over the years to bring it up to scratch. Was a lovely mix of old and new. But then again, I have a bookshelf full of brutalist design books and I might be a little biased.
