It would be inexpensive and very effective to put smoke alarms on buses connected to the engine cut off, this would sort the problem of yobs smoking skunk on them. Of course it would require the cooperation of the police who might not approve of the extra work.
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There would be some risk in undertaking such work surely?Originally Posted by shytalk
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I could see problems of buses stopping in the middle lane of a motorway but I'm sure it could be designed to warn the driver before the cut off, and once the yobs knew it was in place and they would be removed from the bus they would be less inclined to do it.There would be some risk in undertaking such work surely?
Was just an idea, because nothing seems to get done about them.
I was on a bus coming down from Glasgow about 5 years ago and someone was smoking, the steward warned them and they didn't stop, the police were at the next rest stop to remove them, has so much changed in 5 years?.
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A SECOND public inquiry into the regeneration of the Edge Lane corridor will go ahead, it can be revealed. Read
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as well as the fact that residents are being shafted and given pittance for their homes. There is the fact that there are some beautiful houses along Edge Lane which will be demolished and replaced with (what appears from the artists impressions to be bland yuppie trash that could be anywhere.
Liverpool has done well to maintain something of a townscape on the roads in. Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Birmingham all had this kind of townscape (driving into town through a vibrant community makes you feel like you are approaching a real place) demolished and replaced with motorways. Reducing the density, quality of architecture and mix of residents will take away any chance of this vibrancy being restored (I admit that in the present state the vibrancy isn't there, but doing this will mean it's gone forever).
It all smacks of the automatic assumption that terraced housing is what is causing the social and economic problems of the area. Remember Graham 'nobody wants to see Coronation Street housing on Liverpool's doorstep' well about 6 million people watch Corrie a day so it can't be that undesirable.
Speaking of Corrie... a similar thing is happening in Langworthy, Salford (where the opening credits were filmed) Residents are being turfed out of their own homes and assured that they will be able to move back into better quality housing. But they are having to pay for this increase in quality. Basically, they are being forced to move to luxury housing and pay luxury housing prices when they are perfectly happy with low-end terraced housing because it's what they can afford. Also, as in with one woman, sometimes they find their way back into the area blocked. This woman, a professional with a broad Salfordian accent was told by the council that they wanted a higher class of person to move into the area.
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Driving through the buisness park past Barclays etc the other day for the first time in awhile and came across the roadworks in there. Seems that a new road has been put in from Edge Lane through behind the Littlewoods building to join up at a new junction with the road through the buisness park and then directly onto Picton/Wavertree road.
If this is the here, why could they not have made this the new entrance into the city. They have done major work on the new junction near Laurel road at the other end of this new road so why could it not have been widened to 2 lanes each way and continued onto Picton/Wavertree road and down past the Bears paw towards West Derby street and the proposed new junction that will lead to Low Hill and Islington. This would be a very easy solution and cancels out the flawed shallow 'arguaments' on road safety for the top end of edge lane (pavement widths etc etc.) as edge lane would be diverted to the left of Botanic park and totally miss the top end of Edge lane.
This would also lead to the regeneration of Wavertree road which is much worse than edge lane.
The fact that this road was always going to be constructed also shows that the council's accusations about the edge lane protestors causing the city to look bad for visitors using edge lane because of delays is also just propaganda to turn people against them. In the time they have stubbornly trying to get their own way, the council and its officers have missed a golden opportunity that could have resulted in a compromise that would have went a long way to pleasing all side, maintaining our built heritage and improving the main route into the city for visitors.
Last edited by christy; 10-14-2007 at 04:02 PM.
Edge Lane cover-up. This is the top section, between Marmaduke St and Holt Rd. Be quick if you want to photograph the rest of Edge Lane before it gets decorated.
I've got hi-res pictures of all buildings in and around Edge Hill
What a bloody waste of taxpayers money by boarding up the windows again with boards like that. Like it's going to make a jot of difference!
i grew up in edge lane (grampian road ) and i have happy memories living there. playing on the police'y gound, the smell from crawford's biscuits, meeting me mum fron plessey,s and meccano after she finished work. playing hide and seek in the flats, kick the can in the street, oh yes and putting a rope around the old lights and swinging around them. looking out of my bedroom window and seeing mountains in the distance and day dreaming i was going to go there one day to see where they where.( still never found out). i learned to ride a bike there when i was little (a butchers bike), standing outside the pub with a guy fawlkes waiting for the men to come out to give us penny,s. walking to school down church road every morning and walking the same way to church on a sunday morning. collecting for rubbish on bonfire night going around all the streets with an old pram filling it up to the brim. 1975/6 the heatwave watching the railway go on fire and the firemen trying to get water out of the ground fasinated us, taking the pop bottles back to the shop with the top on and getting money back of them and buying sweets.
the people the characters the family,s friends that all lived there are all gone now as i found out when i took my children to see where i grew up, edge lane looks nothing like the place i remember, but i have fond memories of a time past.
debbie
I was hoping for more large scale boarding to cover the whole front of the houses. This boarding of the windows doesn't escape the fact that they are still surrounded by a derelict house. The sooner they go altogether, the better.
I love this house in that area.
I can't believe it's going (is it?)
Such architecture we will never see again.
I know what you mean. I drove past and thought the same thing.
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