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Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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  1. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    I remember years ago a mate informing a copper who had pulled us up for making a noise and him telling the lad he was drunk that he was sober as a ludge.<cheers>
     
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  2. Jim the Tiger

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    Shows how much attention I pay when driving.
     
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    Fosters was a DIY shop. closed down over ten years ago. Now split into two shops, one a pet supplies and hardware the other a takeaway.
     
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  4. Phinius T Bookbinder

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    Remember this guy on the double decker buses. Big guy , wore glasses I think. Great characters and days out.
     
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  5. Jim the Tiger

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    No I meant Fosters seafood. I went to school with his lads.
     
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  6. Idi Amin

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    Whens Jock Lodge upgrade finished.

    Drove on the new part from Beverley Bypass yesterday. Seems to make sense now.
     
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    All that money spent to enable people to arrive at the galready maxed out Willerby roundabout ten seconds earlier.
     
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    Thought they had recently spent a fortune improving that roundabout? The road works there were causing disruption for ages.
     
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  9. originallambrettaman

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    They did, it’s much better now.
     
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    A few years ago the council were going to put bolt-down kerbs to create a protected cycle lane on Holderness Road. Did this ever happen because on Google Street View it still looks like just painted lines in the road which offer no real protection at all from car drivers.
     
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  12. Cityzen

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    But still allow cyclists to weave in and out of them. That is when they are not riding on the pavements that run alongside empty cycle lanes.
     
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  13. Gone For A Walk

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    Should have been built from the start as dual carriageway all the way from the bridge to Beverley. Same with York's northern ring road. No vision, no long term planning, just ends up costing tens or even hundreds of millions more further down the line.
     
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  14. springtiger

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    Yet between Sheff south and Chesterfield there is a top drawer dual carriageway about the same distance as Hull to Beverley and it’s hardly used at any time of day - strange but true !
     
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  15. Heimdallr

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    Ok Aunty Sandra, you're not on the Facebook local neighborhood page now.
     
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