Random Irritations
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Aaaagghhhh.
Patster1969
Assistant Pro
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SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
The endless moaning by too many about the traffic difficulties in our town as significant changes to town centre roads and pavement widening are both undertaken - all to make the pedestrian, visitor and shopper experience more comfortable and enjoyable. Yes it's not great at the moment - but it's due to be completed next month (Nov).
Meanwhile those moaning about the disruption; the future impact on traffic flow through the town; and the current impact on shops seem determined to drive visitors and shoppers away from town with their continual moaning and telling any who listen to go elsewhere. Well that's going to really help the shopkeepers through this period of disruption - so very well done.
And you know what? Most of it is because they can't be bothered changing their route to wherever they are going...or change the car park they park in as they can't be bothered with walking for an additional 5mins to and from their car; or they can't be bothered with waiting two minutes at some new traffic lights.
Yes there is inconvenience and I experience too...but I can see the potential benefits the changes will have on the town and so I am absolutely supportive and willing to put up with the inconvenience.
My Mrs tells me to avoid Facebook where most of the moaning is done as it just infuriates me. And so I do - but it's sometimes difficult to avoid as I hear members at the club doing the same moaning - and they are the same people who moan about a significant change we are doing re-aligning our 2nd hole. But that's a separate irritation I may well post about.
My goodness we seem to have found ourselves living in an incredibly selfish and entitled 'all about me' society.
Meanwhile those moaning about the disruption; the future impact on traffic flow through the town; and the current impact on shops seem determined to drive visitors and shoppers away from town with their continual moaning and telling any who listen to go elsewhere. Well that's going to really help the shopkeepers through this period of disruption - so very well done.
And you know what? Most of it is because they can't be bothered changing their route to wherever they are going...or change the car park they park in as they can't be bothered with walking for an additional 5mins to and from their car; or they can't be bothered with waiting two minutes at some new traffic lights.
Yes there is inconvenience and I experience too...but I can see the potential benefits the changes will have on the town and so I am absolutely supportive and willing to put up with the inconvenience.
My Mrs tells me to avoid Facebook where most of the moaning is done as it just infuriates me. And so I do - but it's sometimes difficult to avoid as I hear members at the club doing the same moaning - and they are the same people who moan about a significant change we are doing re-aligning our 2nd hole. But that's a separate irritation I may well post about.
My goodness we seem to have found ourselves living in an incredibly selfish and entitled 'all about me' society.
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jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
That section should have been built as dual carriageway in the first place or at least they should have put lane markings showing it to be a 4 lane road rather than just saying it was a 4 lane road. As well a saving lives the money they had to spend on dealing with accidents in the first years would have justified the cost. The number of times I had drivers moving over just to stop me overtaking them was really ridiculous and was probably the cause of many of the serious accidents in the first few years.
venger
Well-known member
The bleakness of a premier inn when you are on your own
Fade and Die
Medal Winner
Is it the fact that it’s a Premier inn that makes it so bleak?
I normally relish a night away on my own tbh, but always make sure it’s a decent hotel…I like to have a bit of nosh then explore the single malts or good rums they have.
KenL
Tour Rookie
I like a Premier Inn. Travelodge on the other hand are a bit grim.
rulefan
Tour Winner
Premier Inns often have much more comfortable beds and pillows than many hotels and certainly the normal opposition. But food & drink is a different matter.Is it the fact that it’s a Premier inn that makes it so bleak?
I normally relish a night away on my own tbh, but always make sure it’s a decent hotel…I like to have a bit of nosh then explore the single malts or good rums they have.
KenL
Tour Rookie
I’ve stayed in a few with excellent breakfasts. The one in Stirling city centre is terrific, fresh made to order. Really enjoyed the one in Aviemore too.
chico
Club Champion
The last time I was in a Premier Inn the room was very comfy. The bar on the other hand, the fridges had been switched off and they were serving bottles of lager at room temperature. 
cliveb
Head Pro
Hang on a sec...
I only moved to this area in 2021 and it's always been a 3 lane road for me.
Are you saying it used to be 2 wide lanes that people were expected to treat as 4 lanes, with simultaneous overtaking in both directions?
They would have been narrow lanes, with head on collisions inevitable. Good job they changed it!
Mandofred
Well-known member
Harrogate is going through a bad phase lately.....luckily for me most of it is on the other side of town I don't go to very often. Fixing things needs to happen, but the way they go about it is maddening at times. A couple of months ago they closed off a road and completely resurfaced it only for (cable company?) to tear things up putting a cable down the middle days after they finished (luckily also on the other side of town). The planning dept doesn't know what is going on? I hate to compliment Yorkshire Water (they refuse to repair my stop tap on the pavement....the one they put in when we moved in to this house a year ago), but since a new Tesco being built has shut down a road leading towards Skipton and really mucking with traffic near me.....they decided (
) not to go ahead with a big road closure in the same area because it would be stupid to do so while another big project was going on in the same area and completely shut off that section of town. Why can't the planning people do this? Neilds
Assistant Pro
But the price nowadays!
We are thinking about going to Bath for an evening out later this month and looked at staying over. Just over £200 for one night, no breakfast!!!!! We will get the train back instead.
rulefan
Tour Winner
Yes, breakfasts are usually pretty good.
venger
Well-known member
There’s nothing wrong with the premier inn, it’s more that I’m on my own as She Who Must Be Obeyed didn’t think it appropriate to come to the funeral of my ex father in law.Is it the fact that it’s a Premier inn that makes it so bleak?
I normally relish a night away on my own tbh, but always make sure it’s a decent hotel…I like to have a bit of nosh then explore the single malts or good rums they have.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
There were a lot of complaints when it was built that it was not a dual carriageway but the appropriate agency said it was a 4 lane road without markings.
The lanes were very wide, easily wide enough for a car to pass another vehicle without the need to go in to the oncoming lane direction.
When they finally switched it to 3 lanes with alternate overtaking lanes (from memory) they narrowed the sides of the road.
Yes they had a lot of very serious accidents on the road due to the lack of markings.
I agree with your original comments about drivers not driving at the speed limit when a single lane then speeding up when it becomes two lanes, something in some's mentality about not wanting to be overtaken, something I see a lot.
cliveb
Head Pro
Pardon? They deliberately narrowed the road?
If it was wider than it is now, then rather than digging up the edges, surely it would have been better to install some Armco down the middle and paint lane markings, converting it into a kind of "dual carriageway lite".
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
I have had the displeasure of having to go down to the edge of Cornwall since the late 80's /early 90's, and I cant remember it before it was that stupid road configuration.I've always viewed it as a "get past the damned caravans quick" stretch of road.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
That looks like your falling off a cliff when you took it.!
My daughter does this all the time.
