Finnegan Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Oh and give me the Lake District, the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales over the "Garden of England" any day.
lgfualol Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 I went back to Rothley for the first time in ages at the weekend. Took the missus through the Ridings and the Ridgeway on the way to having a cake and a drink at the station tea rooms. Got to make the most of it. Being Rothley, it'll all be housing estates soon.
MooseBreath Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Can understand HS2 as a major trunk route but this makes less sense. I assume the idea is that people who live and work in the area will be able to move around more freely, but I would have thought the more influential, high earning/spending types already live outside of the city centres. Who is going to scramble from an affluent manchester suburb into the middle of town to get to the station, only then to get the train back out to Leeds. It would be quicker just to drive straight to Leeds. Instead of this we should be putting more money into vastly improving the road network. Almost everyone drives cars, they're getting increasingly cleaner, let's plan for the future by building infrastructure that most people can actually see themselves using.
Finnegan Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Got to make the most of it. Being Rothley, it'll all be housing estates soon. Wrong end. The developments are all by the A6, Hallfields etc. They've built shit loads behind my old house. In another ten years you can see Birstall and Rothley basically merging in to one village / town split by the A46. The Ridings, The Ridgeway, Swithland Lane etc all look like they always have.
Alf Bentley Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 To be fair that voting % for the BNP is lower than most places in Leicester/Leicestershire. Fair point. I knew that the BNP had polled well in certain places like NW Leics, but didn't remember they'd got that many votes in Leicester/Leics as a whole. However, I didn't come on here and abuse other parts of the country, say that "Leicester doesn't have them types (BNP/EDL)" and accuse others of getting their facts wrong and "spouting shit". Though it has its downsides (stress, unsociability etc.), I like London overall but Lamby's having a laugh if he thinks that Eltham/Welling is paradise compared to the North of England. I lived just round the corner (Catford, Lewisham & Greenwich) for about 4 years in the late 80s and visited Eltham several times. It was a grim dive known for its racism back then (before the Lawrence murder). It doesn't sound as if it has improved much since, even if Leicester is just as far from paradise.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 This is probably a stupid question, but what is HS1? After some discussion with my Bro-in-law we concluded it was the Eurostar, but we really have no idea.
Alf Bentley Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 This is probably a stupid question, but what is HS1? After some discussion with my Bro-in-law we concluded it was the Eurostar, but we really have no idea. The rail link between the East Kent coast and London, including but not limited to Eurostar, isn't it? Includes the train that finally allows you to travel from Folkestone to London as quickly as from Leicester to London... Growing up down there, most trains used to take 1 hour 40 minutes to do the 60-70 mile journey!
Fox92 Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Liverpool is comfortably the best city in the country. As has been said though the trains around the north are shite. I can get the high speed virgin train to London quicker than I can get to Sheffield. It takes almost an hour to get from Liverpool to Manchester on a train, I could bloody run it quicker than that. I like Liverpool. Haven't been this year, but for the last three years I visited two or three times a year. It's far from what it is portrayed as.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Fox92 keeps hoping to catch a glimpse of John Lennon, but no one has the heart to tell him, poor soul.
Bryn Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Can understand HS2 as a major trunk route but this makes less sense. I assume the idea is that people who live and work in the area will be able to move around more freely, but I would have thought the more influential, high earning/spending types already live outside of the city centres. Who is going to scramble from an affluent manchester suburb into the middle of town to get to the station, only then to get the train back out to Leeds. It would be quicker just to drive straight to Leeds. Instead of this we should be putting more money into vastly improving the road network. Almost everyone drives cars, they're getting increasingly cleaner, let's plan for the future by building infrastructure that most people can actually see themselves using. That train route between Leeds and Manchester is absurdly busy. If you could get between the two in half an hour I think there would be a lot of workers using that route, especially for business.
Beliall Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 This is probably a stupid question, but what is HS1? After some discussion with my Bro-in-law we concluded it was the Eurostar, but we really have no idea. The rail link between the East Kent coast and London, including but not limited to Eurostar, isn't it? Includes the train that finally allows you to travel from Folkestone to London as quickly as from Leicester to London... Growing up down there, most trains used to take 1 hour 40 minutes to do the 60-70 mile journey!
Fox92 Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Fox92 keeps hoping to catch a glimpse of John Lennon, but no one has the heart to tell him, poor soul. lol I have to visit Mathew Street twice per visit just to get an extra photo with his statue.
howlinmadmurfdoc Posted 24 June 2014 Posted 24 June 2014 Oh and give me the Lake District, the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales over the "Garden of England" any day. Too right, there are loads of brilliant places to visit in this country and you have to go north from Leicester to get to the majority of them.
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