Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#1
The so called improvement to the bus stop near Iceland is a laugh. The second bus draws up behind the first and the doors open onto a small lake when it rains, as it did this morning.
Why was the pavement not raised in height for two bus lengths, there was plenty of room.
Why was drainage not sorted to stop the enormous puddle that always gathers there and is now even larger than before.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#2
Question is - will it be Sir Walter Raleigh or a Bailey Bridge ??
There must be an easy remedy.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#3
Simple answer is to drill a couple of small holes in the tarmac so it can drain away.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#4
The easiest answer to obviate this right away, before any permanent solution could be worked out, is to insist that each bus MUST pull up to the stop before boarding can begin, in bad weather anyway.
Puddling goes with bus stops. When the good weather leads to rucks forming in the heated tarmac.
It is a great pity that problems like this are left to the public to muddle through.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#5
the way the water lays in town a lifeboat might come in handy.
Guest 708- Registered: 22 Dec 2010
- Posts: 102
#6
Back to post #1 - Another Dover improvement gone wrong, where do we get these people from
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#7
I wont mention the planning dept lol
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
Not planning DDC KHS .I will bring this to the attention to the re;levant officer not planning .
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#9
Thank you Sue, I hope he/she can do something about it.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#10
sue
i think you missed the point
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#11
Game on for the bus drivers when they are having a bad day i think.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#12
whoooossh
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#13
Lol i wont be getting a bus from there on a rainy day but must admit very tempting if im driving around town
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#14
I have been drenched to shoulder height by a similar puddle at the bottom of Frith Road just past the turning into Salisbury Road. If I see a bus or lorry coming I wait until they have passed before walking into the splash zone.
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#15
''I have been drenched to shoulder height by a similar puddle ''
Excellent..worth at least 10 points on the fun scale..
Marek
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#16
Good one.
I can laugh now but at the time in mid winter it was no laughing matter as I found out my raincoat was only shower proof so I was literally wet through.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#17
not realy funny at the time
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
Nothing like that is funny at the time..but months or years later one can look back and laugh if not you'd get bitter and twisted.
Plus most good stories derive from ones own accidents..I could tell you loads..
Marek
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#19
yes i have one
the seagull that decided it didnt want whatever it had eaten and shared it with me
all down my long hair just as i was on the way to work lol
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