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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
In the same post I am being asked to look hard at Accrington because it has scruffy areas but reading disparaging comments about an improvement scheme which will tidy up at least one of them.
I go to Accy every Friday for my weekly shop and am never disappointed, it is far better than Blackburn and I get breakfast there too. Pennine Reach is not the be all and end all but why must everything which sets out to move with the times be looked on with such disdain?
I'm looking forward to it and all the transport improvements that go with it. In Rishton we get a new junction which everyone has screamed about for years. It just makes sense to do it holistically.
I doubt I am going to win any arguments about what Accrington has to offer but at least my head is not buried in the past like those who yearn for days gone by and assume that things are worse than ever before.
Think back, times weren't as rosy as some would have you believe.
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Ken, I am glad you shop in Accrington every Friday...and that you find that experience such a pleasure. (all I can say is you must be mightily easy to please).
I am glad that Rishton is going to get a new junction.... that will win you some brownie points the next time there is a local election.
My 'disparaging' comments about what you see as an improvement scheme, are because I do not see it as any such thing.
This 'improvement scheme is going to take trade away from the areas such as Little Blackburn Rd, Peel St, Infant St, Abbey St,the GPO - that place where many of us oldies go to collect our pension, Church St...and of course the Market Hall.
200 yards is not a long way when you are young fit and healthy......if you don't use public transport then it will have very little impact on your life.
for those of us who are getting on in years(and I happen to be one of those) and who use public transport(I happen to be one of those too) that 200 yards may just be a step too far...especially as when you have shopped you need to go back down to the bus station with your heavy bags to get the bus home.
I don't live in the past....but I can use the past as a reference point and I can use the experiences it gave me.
Those experiences might just have made me a bit cynical....I have listened to stuff like this before. All about improvements which would make the town better...make our lives better.....but most of them haven't.
This in my opinion is one of those that people like you want to tell us is progress...well I am here to tell you that because something is moving it isn't necessarily progress....you can go in the wrong direction as well as the right one......and this one might be moving but I'll leave it to you as to whether I think it is progress.