#61
I work some of the time really near to where the work is being done, and I hardly notice it. The market square was full of people, even this morning quite early, taking photos and chatting, and it doesn't seem to have made much impact at all.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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#62
Bern Have you tried to walk across the road or caught a bus from Market square ?.
Some of the retailers are none too happy
#63
I don't do buses, but I do cros the roads!! I can appreciate the shops perspective, though, but there have been roadworks and gasworks through the town lately, and we just get on with it, don't we?
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#64
BERN
Like Sue, i'm a regular on the buses, its realy good to listen to what people have to say, quite amusing sometimes the you hear.
You will have to get in the habit BERN
let the bus take the strain
#65
Actually, one of the best places to get dialogue for material being written is, I find, the free bus from the park and ride in Canterbury. I love sitting on those buses just jotting down bits of overheard conversations - they are brilliant and every scrap is useable. So I suppose I do do buses.............There are lots of arenas in which to engage with people, I think I can justify not using standard buses!!!
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#66
I try to use public transport as often as possible, it is one of those probs, to many cars on the road, getting to gridlock, no where to park, cause of n/bour disputes,
And it will get worse.
I'm not anti car, but we have a problem, at this time with no solutions,,,,,,,,,
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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#67
Good article in Mercury today re the screen .Can you see the problem with the buses .Keith a certain person would have been against that a short time ago.Would never allowed a stop so close to a junction ??Funny old world .See rules can be twisted if it suits .
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#68
SUE
I realised in my short 25 years in council that rules were used in strange ways, let me give you another example.
I was on the planning committee for just a year(got off as soon as i saw what went on)
A planning application that would see 2 houses that were falling apart and used by hard drug users, was to be pulled down and a great new building put in place,
thousands of pounds spent on that area to make it an admired place.
At planning the officers objected to it strongly (they are only advisors, sadly many cllrs never question them)
I managed to convince enough cllrs to go a site meeting at the place, when we got there, locals and I put forward our case nothing changed from the plsanning committee to the site meeting day, yet the chair said to the officer how can we pass this application.
The officer then went on to give a wonderful view of this application and how it should be passed.
M,y speech had nowt new in it from the planning c/ttee, no new items.
So why the change?
For that area it was great, and looking good now, and the area a lot brighter and drug users gone.
but was it the ay it should happen?
It wouldn't have happened with a weaker councillor, or one that is led by the officers.
#69
Power has a funny effect on some, and even more on local reps, as far as I can see. I recall sitting through an interminable meeting with a London Borough rep who was so far up herself we nearly had to call out the air-sea rescue to retrieve her. After a significant amount of pompous pontification and very little real information or detail, she ended with "I am minded to ....(decision)" in the most pathetically puffed up and contrived way. I had to sit on my hands and twist my feet together to stop myself jumping over the table and slapping her head with a place mat. However, I just smiled as if I thought she actually was a human being with value and thanked her with my fingers crossed.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#70
BERN
I love that last post