The 'Marton Crawl'

I don’t like cyclists. Annoying on the roads, annoying on shared cycle footpaths. I know it’s a sweeping statement. I just don’t like them.

Mountain bikers are alright, on there dedicated trails.
 
nowthen said:
I don’t like cyclists. Annoying on the roads, annoying on shared cycle footpaths. I know it’s a sweeping statement. I just don’t like them.

Mountain bikers are alright, on there dedicated trails.
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I don't like self entitled motorists. Annoying on the roads, annoying when parking, annoying creating pollution, annoying when causing congestion, annoying when killing pedestrians, annoying when killing cyclists, annoying when killing other drivers, annoying when speeding, annoying when crashing into buildings, annoying when drunk driving, annoying when making loads of noise, annoying when arguing with other road users, annoying when using their car to drive 500 yards to the shop. I could go on. I know it's a sweeping statement. I just don't like them.

Busses are alright, in their dedicated bus lanes.
 
Cambsred said:
I do hope they bring cyclists and drivers together to review these infrastructure projects. Increasingly I see cycle routes put in place that are just awfully thought out and are avoided by cyclists as they slow the journey/ end up full of dog walkers/ pedestrians.
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Definitely this. A cycle route needs input from the people who would use it, to make sure they actually will use it!

Otherwise you end up with cyclists still on the road, but with even less space and the rest of the traffic moving even slower and a nice empty cycle lane, apart from the occasional dog turd.
 
Teesste said:
Definitely this. A cycle route needs input from the people who would use it, to make sure they actually will use it!

Otherwise you end up with cyclists still on the road, but with even less space and the rest of the traffic moving even slower and a nice empty cycle lane, apart from the occasional dog turd.
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That sounds far too sensible for a council!!!
 
Many moons ago I bought a steak bake from Greggs to have on my way to work. My colleague was driving and I was his passenger in a car-share.

I bit into it, only for the usually tasty treat to be ice cold and tasteless. Instead of subjecting myself to the rest of the disgusting pasty, I waited until we neared a cyclist on the road.

Sure enough, we caught up to one a few miles down. I pressed the button to bring down the passenger-side window, and as we passed the road-hogging, lycra-wearing goon, I slapped the steak bake into his face as hard as I could, yelling: "you just got pastied!".

He went ****-over-head and landed in a crumpled heap on the side of the road, as we drove off, laughing hysterically, and continuing with our day.
 
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Maury_Povich said:
Many moons ago I bought a steak bake from Greggs to have on my way to work. My colleague was driving and I was his passenger in a car-share.

I bit into it, only for the usually tasty treat to be ice cold and tasteless. Instead of subjecting myself to the rest of the disgusting pasty, I waited until we neared a cyclist on the road.

Sure enough, we caught up to one a few miles down. I pressed the button to bring down the passenger-side window, and as we passed the road-hogging, lycra-wearing goon, I slapped the steak bake into his face as hard as I could, yelling: "you just got pastied!".

He went ****-over-head and landed in a crumpled heap on the side of the road, as we drove off, laughing hysterically, and continuing with our day.
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Maury_Povich said:
Many moons ago I bought a steak bake from Greggs to have on my way to work. My colleague was driving and I was his passenger in a car-share.

I bit into it, only for the usually tasty treat to be ice cold and tasteless. Instead of subjecting myself to the rest of the disgusting pasty, I waited until we neared a cyclist on the road.

Sure enough, we caught up to one a few miles down. I pressed the button to bring down the passenger-side window, and as we passed the road-hogging, lycra-wearing goon, I slapped the steak bake into his face as hard as I could, yelling: "you just got pastied!".

He went ****-over-head and landed in a crumpled heap on the side of the road, as we drove off, laughing hysterically, and continuing with our day.
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Brilliant bit of creative writing
 
I attended a focus group 30 years ago about Boro and getting trams. That was worth it then. Knowing our council they will make marton road like linthorpe road. A total joke...
 
The only way the Marton crawl is fixed is a dedicated by pass built from top to bottom.

Space on the other hand is a problem.

The three lane experiment was a disaster.
 
The only way this will be sorted is for people to get out of their cars.

I would have a fully segregated and prioritised cycle lane, some system of ensuring buses get priority at pinch points and I'd double up the whitby rail line to Nunthorpe and have a spur to Guisborough.
 
If we can spend some of the money rerouting people off Gunnergate lane that wools be a start. Living just off that road the amount of dicks razzing along it at 30+ miles an hour in a 20 zone boils my plss
 
So many traffic lights. Maybe roundabouts at the Southern Cross and Marton road /Stokesley road cross roads may help the flow. Still loads of congestion around Gunnergate Lane and the parkway slip roads.
 
TBF to the current bunch of useless officials.. the previous lot made just as many shortsighted & poor infrastructure decisions..

Trams are excellent, esp if they run regularly & reliably long hours: very early to midnight'ish.. not 08:00-18:00..
 
There was always talk of a bypass when I lived in Marton. What happened to that was it not our local council that give planing permission to build on it
 
Subbuteo_171 said:
There’s a train with stops at Nunthorpe, Gypsy Lane, Martin and James Cook. Service is infrequent and barely anyone uses it, more should be made of it - but with a complete lack of joined up thinking around infrastructure it will never happen.

Ormesby Road also seems to have the same problem, traffic yesterday morning was bad.
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Its true that. Gypsy Lane & Nunthorpe, prime commuter types if you like, 30k to 35k entries a year and I bet half of them are day trippers to Whitby, yet they are stations right in the middle of established or new build housing. In that London everywhere the Elizabeth line plonked a station houses started getting built property values increased and the trains are packed - just look at the train frequency better than 1 every 15 minutes
 
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