Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
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
- Posts: 14,118
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: 13,658
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
another white donkey
DFL- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
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: 7,500
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.
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,983
Stupid idea
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,387
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
I have no more to say
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
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: 3,681
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
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,907
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: 7,500
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!).
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,907
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: 13,658
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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