Town centre solution

[garinda]

Originally Posted by katex

Perhaps we could invite a German market to attend a couple of days per week, for those that don't wish to go to Manchester.

You'd probably have to fight your way through the protesters to get to the stalls.

It's all the rage, to stop Johnny Foreigner stealing all the English jobs.

[katex]

Originally Posted by cashman

invite the krauts? they couldn't even win 2 world wars.

It's a big draw though in Manchester Cashy.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by katex

It's a big draw though in Manchester Cashy.

so were glasgow rangers n the krauts are on the same par.

[MargaretR]

As an internet shopper I can see a radical new future for town centres.
That future consists of social/artistic venues and personal services.
eg -- personal grooming parlours, - turkish baths and saunas, hairdressers, chiropodists,
social/arts venues - cafes, restaurants, ballrooms and performance stages.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

As an internet shopper I can see a radical new future for town centres.
That future consists of social/artistic venues and personal services.
eg -- personal grooming parlours, - turkish baths and saunas, hairdressers, chiropodists,
social/arts venues - cafes, restaurants, ballrooms and performance stages.

Well they've made a start.

Miss Whiplash's dungeon has a prime town centre location.

[Neil]

Some of you may have heard of the "Pennine Reach Rapid Bus Transport" scheme that LCC are planning to implement. This would give us better and faster buses from Accrington to Blackburn. In fact most of Hyndburn to Blackburn. I wonder if they have considered the negative impact on Accrington town centre if they make it easier and faster to get to Blackburn town centre.

Surely now that Blackburn with Darwen has nothing to do with Lancashire County Council any more they should be trying to help improve accessibility to Accrington's not Blackburn's town centre.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Neil

Some of you may have heard of the "Pennine Reach Rapid Bus Transport" scheme that LCC are planning to implement. This would give us better and faster buses from Accrington to Blackburn. In fact most of Hyndburn to Blackburn. I wonder if they have considered the negative impact on Accrington town centre if they make it easier and faster to get to Blackburn town centre.

Surely now that Blackburn with Darwen has nothing to do with Lancashire County Council any more they should be trying to help improve accessibility to Accrington's not Blackburn's town centre.

Since when have LCC listened to what he people wanted, remember we used to have a Fire Station in Ossy, can remember being given a choice when they took that away

[Gayle]

Originally Posted by Neil

Some of you may have heard of the "Pennine Reach Rapid Bus Transport" scheme that LCC are planning to implement. This would give us better and faster buses from Accrington to Blackburn. In fact most of Hyndburn to Blackburn. I wonder if they have considered the negative impact on Accrington town centre if they make it easier and faster to get to Blackburn town centre.

Surely now that Blackburn with Darwen has nothing to do with Lancashire County Council any more they should be trying to help improve accessibility to Accrington's not Blackburn's town centre.

Very, very small article in today's Telegraph saying that Greg Pope had voted against this scheme.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Gayle

Very, very small article in today's Telegraph saying that Greg Pope had voted against this scheme.

I wonder if that is because Greg and Peter are now big mates

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Gayle

Very, very small article in today's Telegraph saying that Greg Pope had voted against this scheme.

...not much local support for it from our local politicans then, as I remember seeing our council leader boycotting the last meeting about it.

I know locally people are more concerned about the diminished parking that would result from the scheme, and the effect that would have on businesses in Ossy, Clayton etc, than they are about improving the speed of bus journeys to Blackburn.

[Neil]

The daft thing about it is I can only really see 2 parking spaces that should be taken away anyway. The 2 on union road next to that little car park at the side of the Rose and Crown. The cars parked cause and obstruction to traffic flow. I can't see why no parking zones will speed up buses. When you are driving behind a bus and it stops at a bus stop you can't pass it so you have to wait till it sets off again. The buses slow down the cars not the other way round.

I think it was Brian Roberts that said they don't have any faith that LCC could come up with a good bus scheme after the chaos they have caused with all the build outs at bus stops throughout the borough, especially in Rishton where traffic comes to a complete stand still ever time a bus stops at a bus stop.

Says it all really.

[garinda]

The roads round here aren't wide enough for designated bus lanes.

Even when the buses pull into where they are supposed to, traffic is usually still stuck behind until the bus sets off again.

Perhaps the people at County Hall have never actually seen our relatively narrow and winding roads in Hyndburn.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garinda

The roads round here aren't wide enough for designated bus lanes.

Even when the buses pull into where they are supposed to, traffic is usually still stuck behind until the bus sets off again.

Perhaps the people at County Hall have never actually seen our relatively narrow and winding roads in Hyndburn.

They are not planning bus lanes through Ossy, just making Union road a Urban clearway for a couple of hours morning and afternoon during the bust times. Those same times people want to stop for a bacon butt and buy a newspaper from the local shops.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

They are not planning bus lanes through Ossy, just making Union road a Urban clearway for a couple of hours morning and afternoon during the bust times. Those same times people want to stop for a bacon butt and buy a newspaper from the local shops.

Yeah, the few parking spaces available would disappear.

It'll make no difference at all to the traffic flow.

On the side of the road which has presently got yellow lines, you still have to wait for a bus when it's at a stop. It's very rarely that you can safely overtake it.

[Gayle]

On a slightly different note - I see that work on Accrington's Eco Station has started. Well, so far they've put up the barriers and blocked off the car park on Eagle St.