Recently all eyes have been on Lendal Bridge. A less glamorous bridge deserves our attention: Clifton Bridge. This week marked 50 years since it opened. It’s likely this bridge will be bearing an extra load, of all the traffic diverted from Lendal Bridge.
More …The short car journey previously pictured is open to interpretation, like all things Lendal Bridge related.
It could be proof that walking is quicker than driving in York city centre. … More …
Driving over Lendal Bridge in the afternoon, while we still can. Thinking about traffic light timings, looking for the signs that will tell drivers of the restrictions (hidden by a bus), and wondering exactly how it’s going to work. More …
Having read many of the online comments, trying to gauge public reaction, it looks like the majority view is that this proposed trial is ‘a bridge too far’. It has provoked what is generally referred to as a ’storm of protest’. I’ve also seen comments of exasperation: ‘It’s just a bridge, get over it!’, answered with ‘We won’t be able to, from Tuesday onwards’. More …
Here’s Lendal Bridge pictured recently, an evening in late April, with barely any traffic. During the day of course it’s generally full of traffic. I can’t say this has in any way offended me, and I’ve generally found it possible to cross the road when I need to. Sometimes after waiting a while.
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More images of York in the ‘golden age of motoring’, towards the end of that age. Clearly it’s some time ago, before so many people were converted to the vision … More …
In decades past, the motorist in need of petrol didn’t go out to Tesco on Clifton Moor, but could find it here, on Bootham, at the entrance to Bootham Row, right next to the Bootham Tavern, and in numerous locations nearby.
More …3 August 2011
Forty years ago today our city council voted in favour of the first two stages of a new inner ring road. The local paper announced the ‘convincing’ 31-14 vote in favour in its 3 August 1971 edition.
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