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Dommy
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| | Posted on Tuesday, 01 June, 2004 - 09:18 am: | |
I am supposed to vote at Shackleton House. Is that the block of flats just up from and on the same side of the road as the post office in Dartmouth Road? |
mercator
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| | Posted on Tuesday, 01 June, 2004 - 09:26 am: | |
No, go all the way up Derby Hill, turn right around Derby Crescent, and the Shackleton Close estate is on your right. It's about 150 yards beyond the block you mention.
regards
d |
Dommy
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| | Posted on Tuesday, 01 June, 2004 - 10:14 am: | |
Great! I live off Taymount Rise and there isn't a cut through anymore... Thanks anyway. |
BT
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| | Posted on Wednesday, 02 June, 2004 - 08:22 am: | |
The people who organise these things don't seem to realise that although Shackleton House is only about 100 yds from the top of Taymount Rise it involves a 3/4 mile detour to get there. We used to have a Portacabin in the grounds of the flats opposite the Esso garage which was a lot more convenient. Perhaps taking over one of the empty shops in Forest Hill for the day would encourage a lot more people to vote if they didn't have to face the long trek to Shackleton house. |
matt
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| | Posted on Wednesday, 02 June, 2004 - 10:46 am: | |
i used to live on taymount rise and could never understand why there wasn't pedestrian access to the footpath leading up to derby hill. i know that there were a lot of kids going to eliot bank, and it would have been a far more convenient/safer walk to school by avoiding london road |
a
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| | Posted on Wednesday, 02 June, 2004 - 11:30 am: | |
and this is why Britain is getting fat - people consider a 10/15 minute walk a "trek"!!
It's only a trek if you have mobility problems - otherwise, it's a short walk. If you want to feel represented by your politicians then take the short walk and vote and stop complaining. |
i
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| | Posted on Wednesday, 02 June, 2004 - 02:46 pm: | |
a
maybe but it is all about feeling safe and being safe comapered to walking alongside massive petrol pumping trucks and buses along a narrow pavement where you can see what you breath in on the floor where it has settled, this is why people are getting fat, its becuase they dread the thought of THAT walk, its becuase they would rather sit in thier cars where it is much safer and cleaner, i don't think people are scared of walking any distance.
Thats right everybody should vote but planners should think. |
a
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| | Posted on Wednesday, 02 June, 2004 - 04:56 pm: | |
actually, it's not safer and cleaner in your car because you are actually in the middle of the traffic and breathing in the exhaust fumes of the car in front of you. It is in fact marginally cleaner on the pavement. Besides, by sitting in your car you are contributing to the dirt and pollution, thereby exacerbating the problem.
And is it really fear of walking on polluted streets that keeps people from walking to a polling booth a mere 3/4 of a mile? I find that extremely hard to believe.
I agree that planners should think (the fact that the south circular cuts through the heart of Forest Hill is a case in point) but I also think that one of the major problems with this country is that everybody seems to want everything their own way and they're happy to sit back and whinge that X, Y and Z are wrong but when it comes to one of the most important rights every adult citizen of this country has they don't go out and exercise it because they can't be bothered to walk and then use the lazy excuse that it's the fault of town planners - sorry but I don't buy that one. |
bill
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| | Posted on Wednesday, 02 June, 2004 - 10:12 pm: | |
Stop moaning, people - men and women have died to ensure our right to vote. Put up with it. |
Brian
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| | Posted on Thursday, 03 June, 2004 - 08:28 am: | |
I agree it is vital to exercise one's franchise.As Bill says people have died over the years for the right to vote.I can proudly say I have not missed any election since 1970.
If the journey is a problem postal voting is easy now. |
Dommy
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| | Posted on Thursday, 03 June, 2004 - 12:41 pm: | |
Thanks for all your concerns about my wellbeing. I am fit and healthy and not shy of a good walk. And I agree. Voting is a civic duty, much like donating blood. I intend to vote for the candidate most likely to restore the cut through between Taymount Rise and the Shackleton Estate. |
Hilltop General
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| | Posted on Friday, 04 June, 2004 - 01:35 pm: | |
I'm convinced that will be top of their list of priorities Dommy. But you have saved me from pointing out the absurdity of complaining about "the planners" and then not exercising your vote.
Naturally you will have written to Councillor Whiting or Dawson about this anyway. |
a
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| | Posted on Friday, 04 June, 2004 - 01:53 pm: | |
I thought it was me that saved you from making that point HG! Or did everyone look at my post, think, too long to read, and skip it?! |
