A controversial new cycle lane, costing £1.2 million, has sparked anger among local shop owners who claim it’s severely impacting their businesses. The Mail has more.
Business owners in Castleton, Greater Manchester claim a new bike path is preventing customers from parking on the road and near their stores.
The cycle lane, which covers both sides of a stretch of Manchester Road, cost £1.2 million and is part of a wider £4.4 million scheme of road improvements.
It took around 18 months to build but despite the time and money put into the path, local shopkeepers say it has killed off their businesses.
Mark Foster, 46, has owned the New Bridge chip shop for more than 20 years but says work on the cycle lane has battered his business and led to a 50% drop in trade.
He said: “As soon as they started digging up the road, there was four-way temporary traffic lights and massive traffic jams, so people were just avoiding the area.
“Even during the construction, there’s not been anywhere to park so our trade has dropped by around 50%.
“The council said that businesses wouldn’t be affected, but obviously they have.” …
Stephen Thomas, 60, owns Smith’s Bakery And Confectioners Ltd, but has been forced to close one of his branches because of the lack of footfall. …
Local resident Julie Jones, 55, thinks the cycle lane is “not a good idea” because she “never sees cyclists” using it.
She said: “I just live near the main road where it all happened.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea because you don’t see cyclists using it at all.
“I think I’ve only seen around three cyclists using it during this time, most people use the canal.
“I saw two people cycling up the road earlier but one person was using the pavement and another was using the main road.”
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Priceless.
Can anyone tell me what an associate professor is? Something that merely and correctly was once called a Senior Lecturer.
Since the word “Professor” has been so massively devalued (think Witty and Vallance for starters…..), why would anyone want to be associated with it?
Is an “associate” something or other just an apprentice?
Hunter gatherer by 2040, an Ice age looming then?
No, just civilisational collapse at the hands of a doomsday cult.
‘Carbon footprint and methane of pets’. Oh ha ha. My husband and I fart ten times more than our dogs, and their carbon footprint is shared with ours – they haven’t yet bought their own house and car anyway.
‘The NHS collapses…’ well, I thought it already had, to be honest.
As I sit indoors watching the blustery, rather chilly wind battering my poor delphiniums, I honestly wonder where summer has gone (well, it never really started) and ponder if we are in for an absolute stinker of a winter, with snow and frost like ’47’ or ’63’
Anyway I will be ordering plenty of coal asap.
England will revert to hunter-gathering by 2023 in response to the engineered food crisis.
Actually I know someone who used to go poaching for pigeons and things. I hope I won’t be needing to get tips from him…
“Moving on, Bournemouth Council deputy leader Mark Howell suggested to an environment committee in January that the “issue of the carbon footprint and methane of pets” needed to be addressed to meet a carbon neutral target.”
Blimey, don’t give the CCP ideas…
I can well believe the bartering notion; how else will those of us ineligible for a QR code (if linked to digital currency) manage to transact?
We have a water filter now as I don’t fancy the tap water. Have even started gathering herbs to make my own cough and cold remedies.
No immediate plans to snare rabbits, though – but where does the child labour come in?
Well they are using children in the lithium mining industry for all these lovely ‘green’ cars the world wants so much.
Too bad they won’t have the electricity for them. I suppose they could always go back to coal fired power stations…
Lithium is extracted from brine in South America and mined in Australia https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2020/03/lithium-mining-what-you-should-know-about-the-contentious-issue.html
It’s cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo that use child labour.
but where does the child labour come in
Medieval trait would be my guess. This means children would basically be treated like smaller adults at about 14. OTOH, they wouldn’t be working in the sense of 19th century chimney sweeps, more also go hunting (or do soldiering in auxiliary roles).
Quoting from the recent paper of the retired German professor: According to the IPCC, both humans and animals will need to stop breathing by 2100 to save the planet.
I will definitely have stopped breathing by then.
They are right, thanks to Net Zero lunacy.
And it is the aim of the Ecozealots to reduce Humanity to Hunter/gathering to be in harmony with Mother Earth.
The problem is re hunter / gatherer skills, 99.9% of the population wouldn’t know where to start. I wonder how many could skin a rabbit or a pheasant or could gut a bird or fish.
Planning ahead, I have invested in a large book off amazon with all these skills in it. I won’t be able to rely on YouTube any more on how to do this stuff. I consider it a small insurance policy. I will then barter my expert knowledge for remnant tins of beans with fellow survivors of this impending apocalypse, because I’ll be buggered if I’m eating pigeon. It tastes like shit.
Actually I enjoy pigeon. Quite liverish but very gamey and tasty if cooked nice and pink.
These meat eaters can’t agree on anything!
They have enough of a mental puzzle removing the packaging from their ready meals!
I am quite at home preparing small game for the table, and have been known to collect road kill pheasants as long as they aren’t too damaged. I suppose I could do larger animals, but you need some strength to deal with things like deer, (or some kit to lift it with), strength I don’t have.
However, I have a bit of a rare skill in that I can train a horse to harness. I used to use a horse and vehicle for local shopping and the pub in the 70s. Happy days.
The problem is re [a lack of] hunter / gatherer skills
No the problem is the exact opposite:
That the great mass of humanity is now willingly throwing away millennia worth of technological progress (especially that brought about by the fossil fuel powered Industrial Revolution) and heading rapidly back to its materially and socially hugely primitive and insecure hunter gatherer roots.
All under the auspices of the false, ultra-materialist (worshipping the physical earth instead of the non-physical spiritual dimension) and nihilistic Green religion.
99.9% of the population wouldn’t know where to start. I wonder how many could skin a rabbit or a pheasant or could gut a bird or fish.
There is absolutely no need to harm any animals in order to sustain human existence, and it is a very positive thing that most people would find carrying out such horrible activities to be repulsive (even though most are not yet vegetarian, at least they’re heading in the right anti-cruelty direction).
You know how cows spend their entire day eating grass? You have time to do that?
Give me animal protein and iron and fat any day. Just only kill what you can eat.
‘You know how cows spend their entire day eating grass? You have time to do that?’
Not only do I not have the time, but (literally) not the stomach(s) for it…
‘Give me animal protein and iron and fat any day’
What’s wrong with non dead-animal protein, iron and fat (including milk, cheese and eggs as well as legumes, grains, nuts etc)?
‘Just only kill what you can eat.’
Well instead of getting all daubed, furred and speared up for an exhausting few days hunting down some elusive and unpleasantly bloody and internally organed living creature, why not just pop into your local Morrison’s for a tasty cheese salad sandwich washed down by a bottle of chilled fizzy apple juice?
In spite of the Stone Age vibe on this thread (one shared by the same ‘woke’ eco movement which is confusingly also being vehemently criticised) I’m not prepared to give up on civilisation just yet!
I get squeamish when my wife asks me to put a roast in the bag chicken in the oven. I’ll take responsibility for the non-hunting tasks I think; I’ll do the cave paintings.
As much as I like the idea of returning to a hunter gather lifestyle – I’ve already scoped out where I’m building my hill fort to retreat to with my loyal band of vaccine survivors – I think we will all be wiped out when the nuclear power stations melt down because we’re all too busy chasing rabbits with spears.
Does anybody believe we’d be allowed to hunt for our own food without some woke activist scaring off the prey and telling us all to be vegans?
They’ll get a flint tipped arrow in their face. I’ll be a crack shot by then.
We’ll all be dab hands with a sling given the abundance of masks that could so easily be converted.
Yes – plenty of toxic blow darts lying around too.
I am considering a crossbow. I have a niece whose partner is ex forces and I might have a word about shooting lessons.
YES! I want one of those.
Considering that animal right’s activists are the natural inverse of apex predators, I doubt these people will bother us for long. They’ll probably all get eaten by stray cats.
Just like magic one has appeared on this page already telling us we don’t need to eat animals to survive.
you jolly well will need to eat animals to survive when the shit hits the fan. I’d like to see these vegan types scrabbling around for the odd crab apple and digging for burdock roots. They’ll starve to death over one winter.
Of the few people I know who are veggie I don’t know any who have much knowledge about food and diet.
I’ve been a vegetarian for about 35 years. Now, I feel like the fourth industrial revolution has bum rushed the show and I find myself on the side of the carnivore. Won’t make me eat meat though. However, when the shit hits the fan I will feel no compunction about dispatching radioactive squirrels.
I award this thread the Thread of The Week Award, Awarded Weekly on A Week By Week Basis
Agreed! Good ones are few and far between these days!
Someone should write a sitcom about a group of liberal hunter-gatherers living in post apocalyptic Britain trying to appease the gods of climate and covid and gender politics whilst hunting for plant based meat substitutes.
A mini series – it would be implausible for them to survive six episodes.
The pilot episode will consist of 5 fresh faced graduates who’ve just moved into a flat together. None of them can cook and they’re debating about which supermarket is most likely to offer the best selection of meat shaped non-meat products (because although people don’t want to eat meat it still needs to look like a meat product).
Anyway, the episode ends with them all dead from starvation having only been able to agree, as the hunger set in, that they would be helping the planet by being dead.
Roll credits…
Under Agenda 2030 we will all be banned from the rewilded countryside, instead holed up in ‘smart cities’ in tiny boxes eating mass produced bugs and lab meat. I am a country person from birth and at 69 would rather take my own life than exist instead of live.
It’s going to be pretty difficult to go hunter-gathering the vegan burgers we’re all supposed to be eating.
‘Look at Airports across the UK. That’s the new normal, The Great Reset, that’s Build Back Better’
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Mark Steyn gives his take on the big bag build-up at airports across the UK as travel chaos ruins summer travel plans for thousands of people.
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“Saffron”, a name that conjures up images of upper class airheads. “Associate Professor of Geography” a title which says they don’t want to leave school and contribute to the productive part of the economy. Together they make me think of ensuring my daughter will avoid applying to this university as its academic standards are non-existent.