Big round cirles and their size
Re: Big round cirles and their size
and you voted for these idiots john?? you should be ashamed
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tractorman
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Re: Big round cirles and their size
Isn't it national government who fund major projects like turning dual carriageway into motorways? The A74 was dual (from the end of the M6 to wherever they made the M74) and it was converted to M'way five or ten years ago (I've never used it since conversion!) and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the local council who paid. Nor did they for the Carlisle "bypass" - a cockeyed single carriageway with goodness knows how many roundabouts leading from the A74/M6 roundabout to the main West Cumbria road: that was built with PFI money.
Our roads are numerous for the population (and there are also high numbers of HGVs per head too). The roads can be four or five miles long, connecting two main roads and only serve one house - usually a farm. One that the council took over is just over a car's width, has a ford so far along and then goes up a very steep hill to a farm. If you don't take that road, the route to the farm isn't much longer along a much better road!
The local council spent a small fortune two years ago to widen the road and lift the flagged pavements, replacing them with uneven tarmac on our estate and, because one neighbour said they didn't want the bit in front of their house widened, they left thirty yards or so either side of their house untouched (so a wagon blocks it). They were also clever enough to put new drains in and make the tarmac lower than the gulleys!
Our roads are numerous for the population (and there are also high numbers of HGVs per head too). The roads can be four or five miles long, connecting two main roads and only serve one house - usually a farm. One that the council took over is just over a car's width, has a ford so far along and then goes up a very steep hill to a farm. If you don't take that road, the route to the farm isn't much longer along a much better road!
The local council spent a small fortune two years ago to widen the road and lift the flagged pavements, replacing them with uneven tarmac on our estate and, because one neighbour said they didn't want the bit in front of their house widened, they left thirty yards or so either side of their house untouched (so a wagon blocks it). They were also clever enough to put new drains in and make the tarmac lower than the gulleys!