Anyone Driven Into Manchester This Morning?
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Anyone Driven Into Manchester This Morning?
Believe Deansgate's shut, or part of it, but are the diversions around it OK, or choked up?
Due to drive in this aft, but if its too bad, I won't bother.
You usually don't get the full picture on traffic reports.
Thanks in advance.
Due to drive in this aft, but if its too bad, I won't bother.
You usually don't get the full picture on traffic reports.
Thanks in advance.
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Don't know where you are travelling from and to but wouldn't it be worth checking the trams?ElectroClaret wrote:Believe Deansgate's shut, or part of it, but are the diversions around it OK, or choked up?
Due to drive in this aft, but if its too bad, I won't bother.
You usually don't get the full picture on traffic reports.
Thanks in advance.
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Deansgate has been local access only for a number of years now, so I can't see it having a major effect. Most traffic uses the ring road.ElectroClaret wrote:Believe Deansgate's shut, or part of it, but are the diversions around it OK, or choked up?
Due to drive in this aft, but if its too bad, I won't bother.
You usually don't get the full picture on traffic reports.
Thanks in advance.
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I have some bulky equipment with me, CT or I may well have tried that.ClaretTony wrote:Don't know where you are travelling from and to but wouldn't it be worth checking the trams?
Need to drive.
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I thought that might be the case if there was a need to drive, otherwise it's always a lot easier parking up and getting the tram in if it's convenient.ElectroClaret wrote:I have some bulky equipment with me, CT or I may well have tried that.
Need to drive.
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Extinction Rebellion protest on Deansgate.
Protest planned to last four days.
Protest planned to last four days.
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Clogging up traffic is great for the environment
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It's hardly had an impact on traffic as there's plenty of alternative routes unless you desperately need to drive on that short part of deansgate.
Deansgate isn't remotely as busy these days anyway but it's actually nice to walk along today, plenty of people milling about without the cars and trucks.
Deansgate isn't remotely as busy these days anyway but it's actually nice to walk along today, plenty of people milling about without the cars and trucks.
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MCC should pedestrianise it, would be an ace alternative to Picc Gardens.quoonbeatz wrote:It's hardly had an impact on traffic as there's plenty of alternative routes unless you desperately need to drive on that short part of deansgate.
Deansgate isn't remotely as busy these days anyway but it's actually nice to walk along today, plenty of people milling about without the cars and trucks.
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Managed to get 4 days off work again have they? Position a bulldozer at one end of Deansgate, 5 min warning to clear the place then any remaining great unwashed get dozed out of the way.gawthorpe_view wrote:Extinction Rebellion protest on Deansgate.
Protest planned to last four days.
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Probably less difficult to get 2 days off given it's over a weekend.
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Point being there's more work in a sick note than there is in most of these perennial protestors.
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Charming.Herts Clarets wrote:Managed to get 4 days off work again have they? Position a bulldozer at one end of Deansgate, 5 min warning to clear the place then any remaining great unwashed get dozed out of the way.
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You're right, there's a lot of older folk there at the protest.Herts Clarets wrote:Point being there's more work in a sick note than there is in most of these perennial protestors.
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Not seen Burnley as bad for traffic congestion in ages ! bumper to bumper and hardly moving all around Asda and Active way and the college.
Not helped by numerous roadworks on virtually every road in town either.Tried escaping through Brougham street/Danehouse road only to find it completely shut at the top .
Not helped by numerous roadworks on virtually every road in town either.Tried escaping through Brougham street/Danehouse road only to find it completely shut at the top .
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At least they are trying to have a voice about the world - however futile that may be.Herts Clarets wrote:Point being there's more work in a sick note than there is in most of these perennial protestors.
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To the idiot who sprayed Graffiti on public property on Deansgate today. Using plastic based paint from an aerosol can really doesn't help the environment.
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What an arrogant assumption that is.Herts Clarets wrote:Point being there's more work in a sick note than there is in most of these perennial protestors.
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But probably correct.AotearoaClaret wrote:What an arrogant assumption that is.
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Probably - so you can’t say for sure then.Aclaret wrote:But probably correct.
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I was on deansgate today. I listened to young and older people who are asking what will they say when their children and grandchildren ask them in years to come, why did you not take action when it was clear that our generation was ruining the environment but did nothing about it.Herts Clarets wrote:Managed to get 4 days off work again have they? Position a bulldozer at one end of Deansgate, 5 min warning to clear the place then any remaining great unwashed get dozed out of the way.
They are 100% correct and I admire their drive and commitment.
And no one was unwashed or smoking weed, and I honestly wish that I could have had their intelligence and awareness when I was their age.
But I didn't and was a scathing know it all, a bit like you are now mate.
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Can't see any logic in that at all when there's a train every hour right into the centre and it only takes about 45 minutes from Manchester Rd.ClaretTony wrote:I thought that might be the case if there was a need to drive, otherwise it's always a lot easier parking up and getting the tram in if it's convenient.
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The trains are totally unreliable and consistently late.nil_desperandum wrote:Can't see any logic in that at all when there's a train every hour right into the centre and it only takes about 45 minutes from Manchester Rd.
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I tend to get the bus to be honest. The bus stop is about three minutes walk away and the bus pass makes it free.nil_desperandum wrote:Can't see any logic in that at all when there's a train every hour right into the centre and it only takes about 45 minutes from Manchester Rd.
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Over-congested, unfriendly place. A mini-London.
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Suppose it's the last few days before the new school term starts, for the entitled ones, to inconvenience and stop ordinary working people from getting to work or enjoying their leisure time at the weekend.
What I'm concerned about is, and they clearly haven't thought this through, but who's going to be left to finish off the Guardian cross word for God's sake !?
What I'm concerned about is, and they clearly haven't thought this through, but who's going to be left to finish off the Guardian cross word for God's sake !?
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Just signed in to like your comment Siddo. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
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