http://yorkstories.co.uk/from-bruges-to-barcelona-to-lendal-bridge/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/from-bruges-to-barcelona-to-lendal-bridge/#comment-72 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:04:03 +0000 #comment-72 Thanks Simon, your comment and Kelly’s made me get around to writing an update on the Lendal Bridge ‘trial’: more on the signage.

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/from-bruges-to-barcelona-to-lendal-bridge/#comment-71 Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:54:13 +0000 #comment-71 When I first heard about the closure I thought it would be a good idea to make people think about their journeys through York. As I walk everywhere in York, I certainly seem to breathe in a whole lungful of exhaust fumes everywhere I go and in principal I was all for it, believing it to be part of a wise traffic strategy. In implementation, the current council thinking has proved to be shambolic (your signs may well conform to traffic signage directive to the letter, but they are still confusing and completely inadequate). How can they profess to being visitor friendly on one side and then stinging them [the visitors] for a fine if they (or their sat navs) don’t know which ‘Lendal Bridge’ is. And whilst on the soap box, you are right, all we hear is tourism, visitor, ‘reinvigorate’ – whatever that is, whilst ignoring the needs of the residents. Stop wasting money (and accruing debt) on vanity projects and start providing services.

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