howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon wrote:and there will be a café and a bakery in store as well.
Good to see M & S move with the times and have an in store bakery.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Sue Nicholas wrote:I understand DTC have grand plans for Market Square.Buses would be an inconvenience.I think they want to do away with the one bus stop located there.I think the idea of water fountains like they have in Folkestone is acceptable but not there.People will have to walk around the water jets to avoid getting wet .The flowet beds will go .
Sometimes I wonder what the decision making is at DTC.A town has vitality when you have buses and flowers .
I used to look in the shop windows whilst waiting for buses..No DTC donot have responsibility for Trafic Issuies but some one needs the !,!!to tell them.
Im supposed to be the bus liasion person never been to a meeting only a private one no say what so ever.I get voted in every year but that's about it.
I thought it was the Town Team with the plans for Market Square.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Yes but it's DTC who are blocking buses.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Thank you for the clarification. I can't understand why buses wouldn't be welcome in the Market Square, regardless of what the eventual plans for it may be. Buses will increase footfall, surely, to the benefit of everyone? Sounds rather lack a lack of joined up thinking, perhaps.
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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I have never understood why the perfectly adequate bus lane in King Street is not used by Stagecoach buses. Instead the 68 stops between the taxi rank and the pedestrian crossing, creating a dangerous obstruction to traffic and to the vision of pedestrians. The bus lane is used only by cruise buses, foreign coaches dropping tourists, and idiots parking their cars while they get their MSG fix from KFC or the noodle bar.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Post 12 Yes buses do increase footfall.Years ago they did go into Market Square.The Market was there food shops ,and lovely clothes shops . With DTIZ buses are needed.No joined up thinking .Its ok if you have a car .
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Can anyone close to DTC explain their thinking on this one?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Just been down to the Food Warehouse and they do have a very wide range of products, Greggs and Costa coffee open for business. Couldn't help but notice the large number of cars parked in comparison to businesses operating currently.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Some town Councillors look at the forum
Brian Dixon
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i noticed that to this afternoon howard.
Captain Haddock
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Good to see M & S move with the times and have an in store bakery.
.... but no knickers.
Sounds like the sort of thing which would go down well with Japanese businessmen in parts of Tokyo.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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Some M&S Food shops also sell a limited range of clothes, so you may yet find your knickers, Captain!
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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There is a pun there some where .Sue Nicholas
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Ross Miller
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Link to Town Team proposal for the Market Square as developed in conjunction with Hartwell Architects.
http://hartarch.co.uk/projects/market-square-dover/
You will note the plan has a bus stop on it...
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Thanks Ross.I assume the Bus / Coach stop is a shared amenity?I think there are regulations re shared use .I know there was a problem in Pencester a few years ago.You may have the answer
Guest 1599- Registered: 9 Nov 2015
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Just watched the video, I would suggest that the demographics of the pedestrians are a tad aspirational for Dover...
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Guest 1467- Registered: 30 Jan 2015
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Yes, in the video everyone is dressed so smartly to match the clean surroundings? Not like some of our townsfolk!!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Yes I watched the video again.Those seats not suitable for us oldies
Jan Higgins
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Yes I watched the video again.Those seats not suitable for us oldies
Agreed us oldies and some of the disabled need a back to lean on and an arm rest to help us get up again, I know I do.
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Chris- Forum Admin
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The seats in the video are different to the seats in the pictures (the video has backs and arm rests) - no idea which is correct!
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