Is the City of Leicester a dump?

[SemperEadem]

Perhaps not the thread for it but crikey the traffic around the hospital mid morning on a week day is nuts. Caught me well off guard seeing all the tailbacks this morning around that area, usually on see that part of town for mid week or weekend games.

[Tommy G]

14 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Perhaps not the thread for it but crikey the traffic around the hospital mid morning on a week day is nuts. Caught me well off guard seeing all the tailbacks this morning around that area, usually on see that part of town for mid week or weekend games.

Great use of ''crikey'' 

[Trav Le Bleu]

54 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Perhaps not the thread for it but crikey the traffic around the hospital mid morning on a week day is nuts. Caught me well off guard seeing all the tailbacks this morning around that area, usually on see that part of town for mid week or weekend games.

Leicester needs an extra out of town hospital, or maybe expand the ones in county towns.

 

The only way to physically expand the LRI is up and parts of it are literally Victorian.

[kenny]

4 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Leicester needs an extra out of town hospital, or maybe expand the ones in county towns.

 

The only way to physically expand the LRI is up and parts of it are literally Victorian.

They are expanding it at present.

 

The new multi-storey car-park is due for demolition in the not too distant future....

[davieG]

35 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Leicester needs an extra out of town hospital, or maybe expand the ones in county towns.

 

The only way to physically expand the LRI is up and parts of it are literally Victorian.

They sold a big plot of land part of Glenfield Hospital for housing,

[danny.]

I'm sure the plan for a while was to shut the General and move to 2 hospitals? I know Glenfield has had constant attempts to shut parts down too. Which is all insane.

[lcfc278]

The amount of land that both the General and Glenfield cover it seems insane to keep trying to expand the LRI.

 

Put any hospital money into the other two; they quite nicely cover the east and west of Leicester and the land surely they could put a small A&E or an urgent treatment centre at both?

[davieG]

23 hours ago, Sampson said:

That’s fair I was being overly sarcastic I apologise. I think it’s the same all round the world though tbh in secondary cities, the economy of most countries even those that didn’t deindustrialise has sort of congregated towards the 2 or 3 big cities of a country and these mid size cities have been left behind a bit 

 

Lived in Portsmouth for a long while and they managed to survive by turning into a student city in the 00s and early 10s, but that’s all falling apart now as less people are going to uni and visa restrictions are even making it harder to get the international students to cover the costs. They’ve tried revitalising a few parts of the city and the seafront which looks nice but it’s hard to know where they city is going to go next, there’s still the old arcades on the seafront from the 60s where it used to be a south coast holiday town that look very out of date now.

 

 

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Their headquarters stood proudly on Rutland Street, right in the heart of Leicester’s thriving shoe industry.

At its peak, the city wasn’t just famous for hosiery — it was known worldwide for footwear craftsmanship.

Today the factories are gone, but the story remains stitched into Leicester’s industrial heritage.

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I remember there being at least 6 shoe shops on Granby St / Gallowtree Gate.

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[davieG]

2 hours ago, lcfc278 said:

The amount of land that both the General and Glenfield cover it seems insane to keep trying to expand the LRI.

 

Put any hospital money into the other two; they quite nicely cover the east and west of Leicester and the land surely they could put a small A&E or an urgent treatment centre at both?

That would be terrible for people in the West and North West of the City.

 

I've recently had to go to the General from Hinckley in busy times it's a 50 min car journey there and back plus parking you're talking 2 hours. I doubt Glenfield is a lot better.

 

Where as the Royal I can drive to the P&R at Enderby 20mins and use the P&R 20 mins,  totally reliable and it drops me off right out side the hospital.

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

That would be terrible for people in the West and North West of the City.

 

I've recently had to go to the General from Hinckley in busy times it's a 50 min car journey there and back plus parking you're talking 2 hours. I doubt Glenfield is a lot better.

 

Where as the Royal I can drive to the P&R at Enderby 20mins and use the P&R 20 mins,  totally reliable and it drops me off right out side the hospital.

Might be an idea if the Hospital Hopper buses included the Park and Ride zones?

[davieG]

7 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Might be an idea if the Hospital Hopper buses included the Park and Ride zones?

Doesn't help too much to get to the General on the Hopper  you have to go via Glenfield either on the wat there or on the way back to where every you started it takes ages. From Hinckley it would be easier to get the bus into the Haymarket and then a bus out to the General. Trouble is the bus from Hinckley is so unreliable having started either in Nuneaton or Coventry .

 

I looked at all the options even a taxi, which is £80 return and ended up driving and parking away from the General Hospital and walking the last stretch. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

9 hours ago, kenny said:

They are expanding it at present.

 

The new multi-storey car-park is due for demolition in the not too distant future....

Morons.

 

So everyone in a wheelchair, with a crutch or hosting a virus will need to get a bus.

[kenny]

10 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Morons.

 

So everyone in a wheelchair, with a crutch or hosting a virus will need to get a bus.

I think they are building a new multistorey a few metres over. The existing one is in the wrong place.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 minutes ago, kenny said:

I think they are building a new multistorey a few metres over. The existing one is in the wrong place.

The place is already a warren and a mishmash of buildings. You'd do better to level the lot and start again, which of course would be very impractical and expensive, but that would be the ideal.

[davieG]

Just now, kenny said:

I think they are building a new multistorey a few metres over. The existing one is in the wrong place.

This sums up the problem with Leicester hospitals they keep coming up with expansion plans and never complete them before it’s all change and we end up with piece meal development. That car park is only 10 years old. 
 

im sure a lot of it is down to differing governments trying to score points over each other and never in power long enough to see things through. 

[lcfc278]

14 hours ago, davieG said:

That would be terrible for people in the West and North West of the City.

 

I've recently had to go to the General from Hinckley in busy times it's a 50 min car journey there and back plus parking you're talking 2 hours. I doubt Glenfield is a lot better.

 

Where as the Royal I can drive to the P&R at Enderby 20mins and use the P&R 20 mins,  totally reliable and it drops me off right out side the hospital.

Why would expanding/improving the General and Glenfield be bad for the West and North West?

 

I'm not saying we close down the LRI, just take some of the millions they keep spending on trying to expand the LRI and expand/add more services to the other two.

[MaidstoneFox]

You guys complaining about the hospitals in Leicester, just be thankful you've never had to visit Medway Hospital in Chatham.

[davieG]

26 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

Why would expanding/improving the General and Glenfield be bad for the West and North West?

 

I'm not saying we close down the LRI, just take some of the millions they keep spending on trying to expand the LRI and expand/add more services to the other two.

The more you expand them the more services will be moved from the LRI to them. It's already happening.

 

Besides both the Glenfield & General have been expanded recently.

[Tommy G]

The new diagnostics centre in Hinckley is brilliant - brand new and should take some of the strain off the 3 main hospitals.

[davieG]

Just now, Tommy G said:

The new diagnostics centre in Hinckley is brilliant - brand new and should take some of the strain off the 3 main hospitals.

Shame the new Hinckley Day Case unit has been cancelled

[Trav Le Bleu]

14 minutes ago, MaidstoneFox said:

You guys complaining about the hospitals in Leicester, just be thankful you've never had to visit Medway Hospital in Chatham.

In particular it's the LRI. You can queue for most of an hour at times for the car park, parts are antiquated and it was listed as one of the five worst hospitals in the UK a few years back.

[MaidstoneFox]

8 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

In particular it's the LRI. You can queue for most of an hour at times for the car park, parts are antiquated and it was listed as one of the five worst hospitals in the UK a few years back.

LRI doesn't sound great. Medway A&E was until recently rated as inadequate and unsafe. Parking and access issues there can be horrendous at times, as it's built in the middle of Victorian terraces on the border between Chatham and Gillingham - not far from Gillingham FC , if anyone has been there.

 

On the flip side, I often have to take our daughter to Great Ormond Street and the care, expertise and attention to detail there is world class.

 

 

[Lionator]

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, MaidstoneFox said:

LRI doesn't sound great. Medway A&E was until recently rated as inadequate and unsafe. Parking and access issues there can be horrendous at times, as it's built in the middle of Victorian terraces on the border between Chatham and Gillingham - not far from Gillingham FC , if anyone has been there.

 

On the flip side, I often have to take our daughter to Great Ormond Street and the care, expertise and attention to detail there is world class.

 

 

Similar problems, close to both City and Tigers, amongst terrace houses on one-way streets full of parked cars.

[Tommy G]

2 hours ago, Lionator said:

 

Year I was born - looks so much better back then.