Widening Rhyddings Street

[Neil]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Hi Weeble.

Can you shed a little more light for me please? Is there any other way for emergency vehicles to access Park Lane? What happens if there is a hous eon fir there? or if someone needs an ambulance?

Possibly by using the back ally behind Rhyddings Street. It gets you a bit further along Park Lane and is wide enough for the monsterous bin wagons that use it every other week. Plently wide enough for an ambulance and probably for a fire engine.

You cant get down Park Lane with any emergency vehicle - except maybe the Paramedic cars

[Neil]

Not only would cars be parked illegally on the kerbs, but they would be double parked which is illegal

That is an interesting point about parking on the kerb you mention. I am not sure if you are around at 3.30pm ish. Just watch the parents pushing prams having to use the road because someones Shogun is parked on the footpath at the Fielding Lane end of Park Lane. Or look at the corner of Rhyddings and Park Lane to see other cars doing the same. Road is for cars - footpath is for pedestrians! Not to mention a certain gentleman you refer to as BW - his 4x4 is also often seen parked on the footpath outside his house on Catlow Hall Street - a law breaking councillor whatever next?

[park381]

Originally Posted by weeble

Possibly by using the back ally behind Rhyddings Street. It gets you a bit further along Park Lane and is wide enough for the monsterous bin wagons that use it every other week. Plently wide enough for an ambulance and probably for a fire engine.

You cant get down Park Lane with any emergency vehicle - except maybe the Paramedic cars

Ah now there's a thing the back ally, which end are you refering to rhyddings street end, or fielding lane end. Cause both are at right angles to the "park wall" and due to the width of park lane you will not turn a vehicle out of those back allys on to park lane, other than a small mini. Plus those allys are usually blocked of at Hornby street with parked cars.
On the monsterous bin waggons, they reverse up the back allys from Hornby street
On the distance you will gain by using the back ally = 1 house width, that a great reduction if you live near the ends of park lane
weeble are you resident in the area?

[WillowTheWhisp]

Who is BW?

[Neil]

I am a resident yes. I was not suggesting turning out of the back ally. Just using it to gain access. I am sure that neither fire engines or ambulances would get down Park Lane without wiping out all the cars.

I hope you dont live on the corners I mentioned

[park381]

Originally Posted by weeble

That is an interesting point about parking on the kerb you mention. I am not sure if you are around at 3.30pm ish. Just watch the parents pushing prams having to use the road because someones Shogun is parked on the footpath at the Fielding Lane end of Park Lane. Or look at the corner of Rhyddings and Park Lane to see other cars doing the same. Road is for cars - footpath is for pedestrians! Not to mention a certain gentleman you refer to as BW - his 4x4 is also often seen parked on the footpath outside his house on Catlow Hall Street - a law breaking councillor whatever next?

Yes I'm usually around at that time, and yes parents do use the road on park lane, but in saying that a lot of people do walk in the road along park lane always have done, and most cars parked on the lane are on the road. As for BW, what can one say

[park381]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Who is BW?

A friend of PB's yet another Cllr by the name of Walmsley

[Neil]

Originally Posted by park381

A friend of PB's yet another Cllr by the name of Walmsley

Cllr Puppet. I dont know if you ever go to the Area Council Meeting but it's embarasing watching PB working BW's strings.

[park381]

Originally Posted by weeble

I am a resident yes. I was not suggesting turning out of the back ally. Just using it to gain access. I am sure that neither fire engines or ambulances would get down Park Lane without wiping out all the cars.

I hope you dont live on the corners I mentioned

Take your point but not a lot of distance gained, we have had ambulances on the lane but the last one took 25mins to get from fielding lane to the house in question, and that was in response to a heart attack, the person is actually ok.
No I don't live on the corners you mentioned.
Another point, the kerbs on park lane used to be nearly level with the road so people parked half and half, thus the road was wider.

[Neil]

Was the footpath raised? They are making a mess of "repairing" the footpath on Park Lane.

[park381]

Originally Posted by weeble

Was the footpath raised? They are making a mess of "repairing" the footpath on Park Lane.

The footpath was raised years ago, when PB was a lad