One way for Blackburn town centre drivers (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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One way for Blackburn town centre drivers
10:04am Wednesday 26th January 2011 in News
A BUSY town centre street will become one-way to allow buses to travel more freely.
Council chiefs have spent months planning and making the changes to Penny Street, Blackburn.
It means that drivers will now only be able to drive northbound up the road, from the junction with Salford towards Barbara Castle Way.
Instead, a bus lane will replace the southbound stretch and traffic trying to turn off Barbara Castle Way or Larkhill will be diverted towards the Eanam roundabout.
The move, which is part of an overhaul of Blackburn, was blasted as ‘another nail in the coffin’ of the town centre.
But town hall bosses said it would benefit trade and traffic flow.
Sir Bill Taylor, who chairs Blackburn with Darwen’s council and health care organisation, said: “The improvements at Larkhill and Barbara Castle Way are yet another piece in the jigsaw aimed at promoting public transport, making the town centre less congested with traffic and improving access to the Orbital Route.”
The changes to Penny Street will take effect from January 31.
And highway alterations have also been made to an area near Blackburn College to help bus access in Cardwell Place, King Street and Barton Street.
Comments(38)
burner
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10:18am Wed 26 Jan 11
burner
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10:19am Wed 26 Jan 11
petestan
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10:39am Wed 26 Jan 11
A Darener
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10:42am Wed 26 Jan 11
Sec word road-play...how appropriate
britguy
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10:47am Wed 26 Jan 11
Never see many people on buses anyway...it is cars that bring people into towns.
I couldnt afford to travel by bus.
A-in-Lanc
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11:22am Wed 26 Jan 11
And, because there are no traffic lights at the top of salford road, it is much quicker than Penny street.
bwdbc
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12:00pm Wed 26 Jan 11
Do all the buses on penny st just go to Accrington?
HU
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12:22pm Wed 26 Jan 11
now theres another set of Traffic Lights on the allready busy Montague Street before you get to King St! makes it even worse and traffic tails back to Barbaracastle Way!
DG6985
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12:59pm Wed 26 Jan 11
burner
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1:00pm Wed 26 Jan 11
HOT ?
b-c
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1:24pm Wed 26 Jan 11
Enough said
happycyclist
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1:50pm Wed 26 Jan 11
Noiticer
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2:57pm Wed 26 Jan 11
fazdee
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4:53pm Wed 26 Jan 11
twicki
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4:59pm Wed 26 Jan 11
Lancs - pensioner
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5:14pm Wed 26 Jan 11
hyndburnhero
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7:12pm Wed 26 Jan 11
Another one way system in the town, its difficult enough to navigate around the town at the moment without another one!
hyndburnhero
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7:16pm Wed 26 Jan 11
ste.g
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7:45pm Wed 26 Jan 11
fazdee wrote:blackburn council have been informed by morrisons that if they allow a sainsburys on that site they will pull out and will not be back.
I think this has been put in place for the proposed arrival of a Sainsbury's supermarket and covered bus station which will be located at Blackburn Market. It will take shoppers in a car forever and a day to get to Sainsbury's in that case!
ste.g
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7:49pm Wed 26 Jan 11
HU wrote:have to agree with you hu,i have sat at these new lights scratching my head as to what its all about?and left wondering which jobsworth as been allowed to spend our money this way when there is no need wotsoever for them.
This is pathetic!
now theres another set of Traffic Lights on the allready busy Montague Street before you get to King St! makes it even worse and traffic tails back to Barbaracastle Way!
its a discrace.
burner
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8:03pm Wed 26 Jan 11
ste.g wrote:There's no lights where they are needed if you have the misfortune to go onto Northgate and try to get onto Montague Street. MADNESS !!
HU wrote:have to agree with you hu,i have sat at these new lights scratching my head as to what its all about?and left wondering which jobsworth as been allowed to spend our money this way when there is no need wotsoever for them.
This is pathetic!
now theres another set of Traffic Lights on the allready busy Montague Street before you get to King St! makes it even worse and traffic tails back to Barbaracastle Way!
its a discrace.
SuperSi
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8:11pm Wed 26 Jan 11
BjornAganeByka
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8:29pm Wed 26 Jan 11
Every scheme to try and bring some kind of "improvement" to the cess-pit of despair called Blackburn seems to involve him - and seems to fail miserably.
He is living proof that inadequacy, incompetency, lack of ability and a massive ego are THE attributes to bring success in the never-never land of the public sector.
I agree with one of the other correspondents who think that what the council are really trying to do is close Blackburn to everyone with any kind of ambition and drive and have it as an enclave for layabouts, immigrants, benefit-breeders and vermin.
My wife and I go to Clitheroe, Preston, St. Annes - anywhere in fact, rather than the most scruffy and depressing and motorist-unfriendly town I have ever visited - Blackburn.
Lifeinthemix
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8:47pm Wed 26 Jan 11
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it is essential to understand the corporate crown as opposed to the constitutional crown, it was never his job to make Blackburn work, only destruction in readiness for the corporate takeover
hyndburnhero
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9:08pm Wed 26 Jan 11
ste.g wrote:I doubt it ste.g, they wont be able to find the exit because of the one way systems.
fazdee wrote:blackburn council have been informed by morrisons that if they allow a sainsburys on that site they will pull out and will not be back.
I think this has been put in place for the proposed arrival of a Sainsbury's supermarket and covered bus station which will be located at Blackburn Market. It will take shoppers in a car forever and a day to get to Sainsbury's in that case!
beachboy45
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9:34pm Wed 26 Jan 11
PATHETIC MINDLESS IDEA....
Bernard Righton
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10:54pm Wed 26 Jan 11
twicki wrote:Have to agree - the buses are quite frankly appaling, i have now taken to travelling everywhere by Taxi, at least one can have a modicum of privacy if the driver has a mind to withold his inane drivellings
maybe if you had been on a bus recently you would stop trying to force people onto them, they smell, thet are a rip off, they don't take you where you want to go so u have to get to a stop that goes where you want first and to top it off you always likely to get some lovely person sat next to you or even better pay the ridiculous prices then have to stand. Maybe it't time to stop shopping in blackburn and support Manchester or Preston
therock2008
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11:42pm Wed 26 Jan 11
lol. must laugh at the morrisons comment, morrisons would never move, been there to long, and make way to much money to leave, yes the plans for sainsburys to be opened is in place, but it looks highly unlikely as dangerous driver conditions there, there site is to small, and wouldnt work, the sainsbury sight is to move, were the new super tesco is thought to have fallen through at whitebirk!
Biffa Bacon
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9:22am Thu 27 Jan 11
britguy wrote:Will the last person to leave Blackburn please turn out the lights.
I never go into Blackburn. Never seen such a mickey mouse road system in all my life....bloody shambles. Never see many people on buses anyway...it is cars that bring people into towns. I couldnt afford to travel by bus.
Cynical Pete
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11:05am Thu 27 Jan 11
BjornAganeByka wrote:Hear, hear, BaB.
I've followed "Sir" Bill Taylor's career with increasing increduility and I'm sure I am not alone in wondering why he is not only a Knight of the realm, but actually still in paid employment. Every scheme to try and bring some kind of "improvement" to the cess-pit of despair called Blackburn seems to involve him - and seems to fail miserably. He is living proof that inadequacy, incompetency, lack of ability and a massive ego are THE attributes to bring success in the never-never land of the public sector. I agree with one of the other correspondents who think that what the council are really trying to do is close Blackburn to everyone with any kind of ambition and drive and have it as an enclave for layabouts, immigrants, benefit-breeders and vermin. My wife and I go to Clitheroe, Preston, St. Annes - anywhere in fact, rather than the most scruffy and depressing and motorist-unfriendly town I have ever visited - Blackburn.
We only go into Blackburn now if we have to and I have taken to describing it as a doughnut: absolutely nothing in the middle and anything of value round the outside.
By the way, the security word is 'goal-note'; or more appropriately, given BwD Council's plans for access to the town centre, 'goal-nought'.
sadly, Blackburn is finished and we're simply witnessing the last rites being adminstered.
A-in-Lanc
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11:15am Thu 27 Jan 11
The market on Penny street is due to be demolished within 2 to 3 months, so there won't be any trade there anyway.
I think Blackburn should take a look at a Park&Ride scheme, 'First' have it their local towns, free parking then a flat fare of a quid to town. Busy buses and unlimited parking outside of town
daan
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3:17pm Thu 27 Jan 11
slackerbtch
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6:22pm Thu 27 Jan 11
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Did you know, for instance, that in the traffic regulations, a "bus" is a "motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than 8 passengers (exclusive of the driver)". That, therefore, includes the likes of long wheelbase Landrover Defenders or the Ford Expedition, for example.
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The answer to beating the bus lane? Buy a big enough car!
lostforwords
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7:58pm Thu 27 Jan 11
ashman
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8:05pm Thu 27 Jan 11
More road works,
More congestion,
More road rage,
More traffic lights,
But as long as the buses have a clear route everyone should be happy.....
Well we are not..used to take me 10 mins from Feilden street to my house at the top of Dukes Brow...Now takes me nearly 25 mins thanks to the new traffic lights fielden street and montague street.
ste.g
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8:13pm Thu 27 Jan 11
therock2008 wrote:at the last council meeting where sainsburys was discussed a spokesman from morrisons actually got up and spoke them words.
hahaha! one way system, isnt the new way forward years ago, when they said the roads were improved by the kaos near asda and B+Q, it was the worst decision ever, and now a complete one way system, you are going to see less and less people in blackburn.... the travel congestion on match days will be dangerous! youle get lots of angry drivers, never mind buses, there cutting more and more services every week,
lol. must laugh at the morrisons comment, morrisons would never move, been there to long, and make way to much money to leave, yes the plans for sainsburys to be opened is in place, but it looks highly unlikely as dangerous driver conditions there, there site is to small, and wouldnt work, the sainsbury sight is to move, were the new super tesco is thought to have fallen through at whitebirk!
watch this space....
enki jr
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9:30pm Sat 29 Jan 11
too much power and not enough intellect, the town centre is a living
abortion and i will not drive through that hovel anymore, ill go around it.
Lifeinthemix says...
10:07am Wed 26 Jan 11
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there is summat else afoot