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I only meant to post "traffic was horrendous like last week, went long way, edgar street surprisingly clear" :P

For what it's worth, I went across town today. Down Newmarket Street which was slow heading towards commercial road and gridlocked to a standstill heading towards the roundabout. I needed to get to the back of Maylords to pickup some heavy equipment. Noticing that the yellow box outside the kerry was jammed pack and 3 deep blocking all traffic in directions, I manage to drive up the curb near the dinosaur market and get around an open top truck. I dumped the van behind mcdonalds and decided it was easier to risk personal injury and carry the equipment from Maylords back to Union street. I then needed to get down to B&Q. The traffic was still gridlocked and after last weeks fiasco I decided not to even attempt to get back on Bath street. I heading for Goal Street carpark, shot across bath street and down towards the back of the cinema, where I picked up commercial road and head down barrs court road. In an attempt to avoid the pizza hut roundabout and Newtown road, I went for that small bridge at the back of PC World. About 1/3 in, I was met by an oncoming car, so I kindly reversed as I wasn;t sure that I would fit anyway. The bloke was on his phone, yapping away, not even a glance of thanks. I squeezed through the two walls, the van fit albeit after knocking the wing mirror. Avoiding the cars parked on Perseverance Road, you know, next to the empty car parks. I got my wares and headed back. It was a toss up, Holmer Road, Whitecross Road, A49S or Edgar Street. Having purchased a drink and a sandwich for the forseeable delay, I went for Edgar Street. I didn't stop on Edgar Street until next to the Richmond Club! So I'm guessing they actually fixed something with the lights? Anyway. Last week fucked me off royally. This week I factored in extreme traffic, food provisions and some creative navigational skills. Albeit having to risk personal injury, which is very likely, I got there and back

I still don't understand, are they expecting people to stop off in the middle of the road and sit down with a lunchbox?

Shut it down, resurface. BANG one velodrome. What GDJ said, why isn't it used for other activities, it should be a multi purpose venue, you save on space, reduced development costs. I mean jesus, imagine if Hereford hosted football stadium sized music gigs! Or a driving range or ... hundreds of other things. A structure like that is gold on a stick. Use it or lose it.

I see that they have added plants to that middle section of Newmarket Street now. I must admit, it looks just like Milton Keynes, sticks coming out of grey concrete. aaannnyywaaaayyy... That middle section is very wide and goes all the way down the road. Can someone just fill me in on why it's so wide the whole length? They aren't expecting/allowing people to use the entire stretch of the road as a crossing point are they? So that people can just cross where ever and whenever they like? I was under the impression that there would be dedicated crossing points, even if they didn't have traffic control.

I saw salty bricks on the houses around Saxon Gate today. They are what... 5 years old? 6? So does this mean that we have to look forward to that white crap coming back again in 5 or 6 years time? I'm guessing they have just left it this time, wait until it's all built up and nuke it in one go? Or do it once at the end of the build and leave it rather than have to redo it 3-4 during the course of the work :P

I shop in Asda and then get really confused when I pick something up from tesco in town and can't find the money hole :P But yes, they are all as bad as each other in that customers are doing the work for nothing in return. In all honesty, I do think that if someone brought a legal case against self service checkouts they would win as it does constitute unpaid labour.

First thing I'd do - check the incident logs and see where the majority of calls originate. Also, wtf has HF got to do with any of this?

Indeed, all we need is one big burner somewhere. Even if they charged £1 per visit. In fact a liquidiser would be better. One unit, £1 per visit, liquidise paper to destroy it, sell/ship out the mulsch(?) for recycling. That way we get proper disposal of confidential waste and contribute to recycling and the environment. I'd do it myself, but I fear getting a unit or piece of land to do it with would be far too costly for a business venture.

I think it will work as well, but there is going to be a long adjustment period.At the start people will just be forcing their vehicles around, sitting in yellow boxes and running red lights as they do so often now. Most of this is due to the fact that if you don't force, push and race, it means you're going to be stuck for even longer because you know that just around the corner is further gridlock. I know I've certainly given a big "f*** you" to other road users because "well I've been sitting here for 20 minutes and only moved 10 meters" or "this is the 6th change of these lights and I still haven't go out". If people knew that around the corner the traffic was flowing well, they would be more incline to let people out of junctions. Because right now, being polite adds to your misery, adds to your delays and adds to your time. Letting people out in front of you just compounds these problems because of the tragic state of the traffic. Once the traffic is clear and flowing, letting people out will make little to no difference to a journey.

AHA! The cat is out of the bag! You're not from Hereford at all are you. No. The people of Hereford have difficulty using their indicators let alone raising a few fingers of thanks. You know why Barrs Court Road is never blocked with traffic? Because you can't get out at the Aylestone end, consequently, everyone who knows better avoids it. Now replicate that across town and you have a city that people avoid. The exception being the A49 because it's the only road from one side of the city to the other. I'm not disagreeing with you, by the way, the Maylord exit lights off have been a great success.

I get absolutely no bags and I have 5 black bags of grass waiting to go somewhere. Might just fly tip them! I was going to start a new thread, but this appears to be on topic; Does anyone know where I can take paperwork? Bank statements, payslips etc. I'd like to watch them get incinerated, rather than throw them into a container and hope for the best.

lol dippy Thanks for that, I know exactly what you mean now :) So um... the fire station is going there then? A lot narrow that road isn't it. Funnily enough, that's the road I spent the 30 ******* minutes on going nowhere :P

They should just give up and stop flogging a dead horse. Christ, can no one in the city recognize when something isn't working. But hey, I'm sure they will just keep throwing money at it and then beg the fans for more money again...

I want my new bin personally delivered by a councillor! Mind you, I'm still baffled about the black bin bags that people kept having left, I've had to buy my own for at least the last 10 years. I haven't had a black bag left by the bin men since I was a wee child. Remember those days, bin men we respected and praised, the whole street would tip them and give them wine, beer, money and Christmas cards during the festive season. In their defence... well... you know.... they don't do my bins until nearly 12 midday! Which is fantastic given that my lifestyle doesn't lean towards an early morning.

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dippy, I can't lie, I'd never even heard of it... post a picture for me :P

Ronin 1998 with Sean Bean, Jean Reno and Robert De Niro www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/quotes Let's not also forget the SAS, while it's all very hush hush, and rightly so, Hereford features in the Call of Duty games, even to the point where you are introduced to the game through the camp in Credenhill (albeit a reimagined Credenhill). We need to cash in on these things. Hereford Steak House Riverside Pubs and Restaurants - a floating boat restaurant even better Military based activity days..... "learn tactical paintball, just like the SAS!" If my forte was in food, I would be jumping at the chance to open a Hereford Steak House. Locally sourced beef only would make it locally sustainable, economically viable and a marketing dream. In fact, I'm somewhat disappointed that it isn't. I have known people keen to open steak houses here but were put off by the high rates and are now no longer in a financial position to do so.

No offence GK, but people don't want to come to Hereford to shop, why on earth would they want to come here for a holiday or short break? The riverside is... is nothing, baron and empty, the famous "boathouse" (mentioned even in Hollywood blockbusters) is no more, the shops are closed, the roads are failing. Go 8 miles down the road to Ross and you have access to a motorway, a bypass, quaint shops, hotels and river side pubs and activities. Go up the road to Hay with it's notoriety and Hay festival and the place cashes in with it's little book shops and tea rooms. Hereford is WORLD famous for it's beef and we have what to show for it? Nothing - at all. I mean, if you came here as a tourist you wouldn't have a clue about it's association with Beef, apart from, at a push, the new statue of a bull in town. As I've pointed out in a previous thread, you can find Hereford Steak Houses in cities the world over...... apart from Hereford. That, really, just sums up how moronic, shortsighted and clueless this council is.

It's large, not on the flood plain and close enough to the college to have joint/shared resources. It would be the perfect spot. However, of course, I don't think Hereford needs or should have a uni

Don't get me started on self service tills. Another case of reduced services yet same or increased price. Anyone who uses a self service checkout should get a % discount for doing the job of the staff who no longer do that job.

Bloody hell, outsourcing to Finland now! Whatever next! ;) Sell it to the council Jon, we know they'll pay a good price :P

That only throws up 4 errors that are all the same, these are really suggestions to be honest. They are using italic text (i) and the guidelines/checker is recommending that they use bold (strong/em(phasis)) instead to make the text more distinguishable for people with visual problems. It is actually against the law to provide a government website that doesn't meet accessibility regulations. I believe it falls under the equality act. There was a big hoo-har because it's a pain in the ass, stifles development and design and can take a lot of extra work to implement. Most "normal" websites, you can get away with anything you'll find 99.99999999% of websites fail to meet the standards, but government sites do need to make the effort. Let me.... here... http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/lawsandstandards/Pages/uk_law.aspx So the hereyoucan website, is, in fact, illegal.

Thanks 2wheels. It would make so much more sense to keep things together, what's wrong with them? So, who reckons in 5 years time the OLM will include Nandos that has moved to the old hairdressers on whitecross, John Lewis Pickup moved to that white building by the duck pond and the 6th form student carpark used for customers... whilst all still be being called "the olm" :P If they do go ahead and make an actual university - I mean a proper one, not a number of buildings dotted over the city that form part of an alliance to some other university - they need to have 1 big campus with all of the lecture halls and ammenities in one place, maybe this big splat of land that I don't know what it's called (you might have noticed by now I have no idea what anything is called in Hereford, maybe I should use the time spent in traffic reading the signs :P) https://goo.gl/maps/sUf9G

Ok you got me, first page only, fails on 23 accounts: http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php Just a quick glance, the main few issues there, in a nutshell images on websites have associated titles and "alt" attributes. If the image doesn't or fails to load, the alt attribute is put in it's place. Consider this: 1. You go to hereyoucan and the images fail to load. You have no idea what those links are for, what they say or where they go. 2. You're blind and use a screen reader (that speaks the text on the screen), the screen reading software can't read text in pictures so it looks for the alt attribute, there is none.