Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
'They are looking for an operator for Ramsgate’s port and hope to reinstate a cross-channel ferry service with £9.62 million earmarked for improvements.
The cash is part of the £19.8 million TDC was awarded in 2021 as part of the Government’s Levelling Up fund'.
I was afraid it was going to turn out to be my money rather than TDC ratepayers'. Still, jolly well spent though - the creativity of the Levelling Up submission must have been of a standard that Dover Beacon can only dream of.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,163
Button wrote:
I was afraid it was going to turn out to be my money rather than TDC ratepayers'.
But to be fair THEY 'invested' in Dover Fastrack!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 348
Not sure invested is the right term. I see KCC have had to pay Go Ahead £110m over 15 years to take on the first Kent Fastrack service
https://www.route-one.net/news/go-ahead-gains-15-year-kent-fastrack-brt-contract/Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Yes on fast track
But meanwhile they can't sort out to have a credible domestic service
That would have been more important
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
An article including photos of the Western Docks/Inner Harbour infilling - hadn't realised it had started and, for some reason (marble loss probably), I'd overlooked the fact that the Tidal Basin was included too:
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/dock-turned-into-giant-sandpit-ahead-of-new-eu-rules-313889/(Not my real name.)
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
What gets me is that they got rid of the roundabout and put in traffic lights there to improve the A20 traffic flow. Now they built a drive through costa there and the new port car check in. I can the see traffic lights having a lot of red stopping the A20 traffic flow..
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
Same is true of Limekiln Street roundabout - I'm assuming that that is the way in. The Union and York Street roundabouts were removed at DDC behest to Keep Dover Clear, as the saying went, and to stop HGV queue-jumpers doing a 180.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,163
'a regional tourist destination and centre for entertainment and recreation, with space for new homes' - with a couple of berths in the bit they haven't filled in?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/it-s-going-to-cost-hundreds-and-hundreds-of-millions-of-pou-315556/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,065
I guess they figure that the CEC Eastern Docks leases will be renewed.
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Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Life without a dog is like a salad without lettuce.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,559
Just noticed that the old swing bridge and its turntable have been completely buried.
Dover History Pages- Registered: 12 Dec 2020
- Posts: 34
Karlos wrote:Just noticed that the old swing bridge and its turntable have been completely buried.
The bridge was cut up, and the cutting infilled, with a new wider road created across
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,559
Dover History Pages wrote:The bridge was cut up, and the cutting infilled, with a new wider road created across
Ok. Seems a shame some of it couldn't be preserved.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,559
Walking past the site of the swing bridge this morning, there's a fairly big hole.
And in that hole I noticed some old brick arches. Possibly of interest to local historians before they get re-buried/destroyed.
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