Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#21
It goes back more then 12 years it was myself that put a plan before the D.D.C IN THE 1990S
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#22
My plan was up the outside of the cliffes only also I put it to the D.H.B.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#23
An absolutely daft idea that should have been dead and buried from day one. How many tourists will it bring to spend money to simply view the docks from above when a free visit to the cliffs is absolutely free.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#24
another white donkey
Guest 3706- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
#25
Great idea. If they can put a diving board at the top and a rope swing / zip line across the channel....count me in.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#26
Jan, you've got it the wrong way round.
It's not for the few and far between tourists in Dover to visit the Castle, it's for the 1/3 million Castle visitors to pay good money to arrive in the car park at the back of the old Co-op whereupon they will spend loadsa money and revitalise the town centre.
Seriously.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#27
Stupid idea
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#28
Presumably the part of the Council that was involved with the bus/cycle lane is involved with this?
Any culprits been named?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#29
I have no more to say
Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
#30
Captain Haddock wrote:This is going to be DDC's very own Garden Bridge scandal. Millions wasted and the only thing to show being 'consultants' fat wallets.
Very much like track and trace. A microcosm of central government in our own back garden.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#31
One of the few things I actually agree with you on Bob
This is a complete and utter folly and a total waste of ratepayers money
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#32
Joking apart (and I agree the idea is a joke), I would say that castle visitors have to have
a) time in which to additionally visit the town/seafront and
b) one or more reasons to do so.
Assuming I had both, and given that I would already have admired the view from the top, I'd be quite happy to come down by heritage or shuttle-bus.
I think the idea would annoy me even more if I lived elsewhere in the district; as in "oh great, here we go again, pour my money into Dover why don't you?" Not a great vote-winner, in my opinion.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#33
Button, the Castle to the town trip is of course about to be served by the multi-million pound Rapid Bus Transport thingy (paid for out of Govt housing budget!).
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#34
I'd forgotten that, and it just makes the cable car all the more nutty.
(Not my real name.)
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#35
Can I add to this ridiculous scheme by suggesting a giant helter skelter or slide is built along side for the downward journey, at least that would create some element of fun.
I think the most interesting element of this thread is that the vast majority of us seem to be against this absolute waste of money.
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