Cash hope for flood prevention work on the A19 (From York Press)

Inbound bus priority lanes on the A19 between the A64 and Germany Beck

So what is the empty buss lane that is already between the A64 and Naburn Lane for?! STOP WASTING MONEY!

Why are they trying to support the Germany Beck development?

It will add over 2000 residents to Fulford, in an area prone to flooding. Plus there will only be one access point in or out of the development onto an already overloaded road.

This will be a planning disaster.

Or they could stop all the flooding in the York area completely and quite cheap in comparison by ensuring that the river Ouse and Foss are dredged in the relevant areas thereby giving the river back its full true capacity!

Tackle the root cause not the effects!

Or it’s a road improvement initiative for the Germany beck development under another name/funding opportunity!

• Inbound bus priority lanes on the A19 between the A64 and Germany Beck

BL2: Very useful to those of us who travel by bus, funnily enough. And I drive too, so see both sides.

It is sheer madness if this development is allowed to go ahead. Traffic is already bad enough at peak times, without all the extra cars which will inevitably be on the road from the new development.

I agree with making sure the road doesn't get flooded, as this is a major arterial route into York, and the traffic in York tends to grind to a standstill when this road is closed. But as for building a load of houses there is absolute nonsense.

It's just another way of the council making money, and sod the consequences.

Instead of putting a bus lane part the way down one side of the road, how about building laybys on both big enough for buses to pull into and allow cars to pass? All they'd have to do is ensure they weren't put next to traffic islands and are three times longer than any bus known to First to incorperate their convoy system. If they were short of building materials they could remove the chicanes from Heslington and utilise them as foundations. Once that was done they could phase the lights properly and use any surplus electrical power to light up the zebra crossing at the University Sports Centre to make it harder for motorists to run down oriental students with no road sense dressed as Ninjas who are currently only visible by the white wire on their ipod headphones as they dart across the road in a deadly game of one sided chicken oblivious to the near misses and traffic chaos in their blind dash for pot noodle and lager.

Pete the Brickie wrote:
Instead of putting a bus lane part the way down one side of the road, how about building laybys on both big enough for buses to pull into and allow cars to pass? All they'd have to do is ensure they weren't put next to traffic islands and are three times longer than any bus known to First to incorperate their convoy system. If they were short of building materials they could remove the chicanes from Heslington and utilise them as foundations. Once that was done they could phase the lights properly and use any surplus electrical power to light up the zebra crossing at the University Sports Centre to make it harder for motorists to run down oriental students with no road sense dressed as Ninjas who are currently only visible by the white wire on their ipod headphones as they dart across the road in a deadly game of one sided chicken oblivious to the near misses and traffic chaos in their blind dash for pot noodle and lager.

Ha ha ha. Pete you are spot on. Thanks for brightening up my afternoon!

Perhaps with your JCB one day you could remove not only the chicanes at Heslington but also the traffic lights on Field Lane at Heslington. These "four way" lights serve no useful purpose except to delay as much traffic as possible. Why, oh why was this pinch point built?

As for the bus stops on University Road by Vanburgh Way. When two buses stop at the same time and completely block the road... don't get me started.

York Council are scr*wed with their housing targets and will not meet them in the next five years.

Their Get York Building plan is a joke, and their hope that they will achieve 5,000 new homes in the next 5-7 years has failed before it has started.

In a nutshell, they have unimplemented insufficient planning permissions, which have dwindled to a critical level, because of the 50% affordable policy that was retained for almost six years. The profile of these pipeline permissions in terms of site size means that they are dependant on a massive surge in planning applications/consent
s in the next two years to increase housing completions, but, even they will not meet their targets.

They are stuffed and they know they are, but, councillors have been hoodwinked by officers who are behind the unworkable affordable targets which are to blame for the predicament.

It's time they came clean with the truth, with those responsible for the porky pies should resign, or be sacked.

It will all come out in the Press, very soon !!!!

Sorry that should read 'insufficient unimplemented planning permissions'

I'm told Get York Building is a pack of lies,
and the council are telling porky pies!
It doesn't do what's on the tin,
and should be put in the waste bin!

Alexander, Merrett and Simpson-Laing,
About housing they don't give a ****,
It's all a con, and a stitch-up,
As Waddo' has sold them a pup!

No houses will this plan get built,
Because of an officers clear guilt!
The survey's a joke, your 'avin a laugh,
Waddo has lead you up t'garden path !

It's all gone wrong, he will confess,
It'll be on t'front page of the Press.
Don't cheat, don't lie or you will weep
For promises you cannot keep

Scarlet Pimpernel wrote:
I'm told Get York Building is a pack of lies,
and the council are telling porky pies!
It doesn't do what's on the tin,
and should be put in the waste bin!

Alexander, Merrett and Simpson-Laing,
About housing they don't give a ****,
It's all a con, and a stitch-up,
As Waddo' has sold them a pup!

No houses will this plan get built,
Because of an officers clear guilt!
The survey's a joke, your 'avin a laugh,
Waddo has lead you up t'garden path !

It's all gone wrong, he will confess,
It'll be on t'front page of the Press.
Don't cheat, don't lie or you will weep
For promises you cannot keep

Don't give up the day job.

A job ? What's that then ?

Scarlet Pimpernel wrote:
York Council are scr*wed with their housing targets and will not meet them in the next five years.

Their Get York Building plan is a joke, and their hope that they will achieve 5,000 new homes in the next 5-7 years has failed before it has started.

In a nutshell, they have unimplemented insufficient planning permissions, which have dwindled to a critical level, because of the 50% affordable policy that was retained for almost six years. The profile of these pipeline permissions in terms of site size means that they are dependant on a massive surge in planning applications/consent

s in the next two years to increase housing completions, but, even they will not meet their targets.

They are stuffed and they know they are, but, councillors have been hoodwinked by officers who are behind the unworkable affordable targets which are to blame for the predicament.

It's time they came clean with the truth, with those responsible for the porky pies should resign, or be sacked.

It will all come out in the Press, very soon !!!!

Scarlet, you are letting your "heartfelt" interests upset you again! It's a wonder that your computer/phone can still function with all that foam over it.

In passing, do two negatives make a positive, as in the case of planning permissions? Also, do the council have some relatives involved in the Planning Permission "debacle" or should it read dependent?!

Finally, I would not pin your hopes on anything "coming out in the Press".

Haywire wrote:

Scarlet Pimpernel wrote: York Council are scr*wed with their housing targets and will not meet them in the next five years. Their Get York Building plan is a joke, and their hope that they will achieve 5,000 new homes in the next 5-7 years has failed before it has started. In a nutshell, they have unimplemented insufficient planning permissions, which have dwindled to a critical level, because of the 50% affordable policy that was retained for almost six years. The profile of these pipeline permissions in terms of site size means that they are dependant on a massive surge in planning applications/consent s in the next two years to increase housing completions, but, even they will not meet their targets. They are stuffed and they know they are, but, councillors have been hoodwinked by officers who are behind the unworkable affordable targets which are to blame for the predicament. It's time they came clean with the truth, with those responsible for the porky pies should resign, or be sacked. It will all come out in the Press, very soon !!!!

Scarlet, you are letting your "heartfelt" interests upset you again! It's a wonder that your computer/phone can still function with all that foam over it. In passing, do two negatives make a positive, as in the case of planning permissions? Also, do the council have some relatives involved in the Planning Permission "debacle" or should it read dependent?! Finally, I would not pin your hopes on anything "coming out in the Press".

Who is telling lies ?

If CYC are so sure of their claim that they will achieve 5,000 completions in the next 5-7 years, they should prove it with a delivery plan. This is the plan that planning inspector David Vickery asked them for on 23 April 2012, at the exploratory meeting for the LDF pre-EIP event. CYC sidestepped it by withdrawing the LDF, but, they will have to do one to support the LDP at EIP in 2014. They are desperately avoiding doing one now, because it won't stack up, and hope that by the time they have to do it, that they will pull a rabit out of the hat with a surge in planning applications. It won't happen. They are stuffed.

If the Press don't expose their foul play now, they will have to report the failure when it does happen, and I'll be able to gloat and say, 'I told you so' :-)

Haywire

You are totally right - the Press won't print the story.

I won't be boring you with any more 'unhinged, paranoid obsessivenes' on this issue anymore.

Adios !,

and also to install new signals and improve access at key junctions

MORE TRAFFIC LIGHTS!!

I'm guessing these will go in at Naburn Lane and at Fordlands (or whatever it's called), the bus lane beuing built to avoid the traffic queues created by putting in the traffic lights in the first place!

York councils sure do love their traffic lights... we have a pointless setup on Field Lane with a stupid pinch point artifically made that serves no purpose and doesn't even have a connecton for cyclists to get onto the on-pavement cycle lane (if going from heslington to the science park or windmill lane); there's then the pointless set outside Waitrose - MFI didn't needs traffic lights so why were they put in for Waitrose? then the set on Layerthorpe/James Street, this should be a roundabout as all flows in/out are roughly equal so would create a self-regulating junction that still flowed; likewise for Eboracum Way/Heworth Green - should be a roundabout.

..>" bus lane *BEING* built"....