Coventry city centre (43 Viewers)
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clint van damme
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steel and cladding, not even CCC can fuck up that much, can they?!!
Nick
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It's much bigger than that picture seems. Goes outside as well.
Might just be the angle the picture is taken from
Grendel
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Let’s hope so as it’s initial cost projection was £37 million
Otis
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Just been down town this morning. Never ever usually go into the city centre on a Monday and it's been 6 years since I worked in the city centre and was there every day.
Certainly a sea change I noticed. There were more people down there today at 10.15 in the morning than I ever saw at 1pm in my lunch break when I worked.
Also went into Primark, which was very, very busy. Queues at all the tills and before anyone scoffs and says 'Ah, well, Primark' that's not the point I am making. i am just taking about in terms of footfall and I found it heartwarming that people do still want to shop in person.
There is no substitute for looking at the clothes, feeling the texture, looking at yourself in the mirror when you hold it up to your body and trying clothes on. That's exactly what people were doing today. Havinga long good look at the clothes, holding them up and feeling the material.
I do think certain kinds of shops will die in the high street due to online transacting, but there will always be a place for others.
Certainly a sea change I noticed. There were more people down there today at 10.15 in the morning than I ever saw at 1pm in my lunch break when I worked.
Also went into Primark, which was very, very busy. Queues at all the tills and before anyone scoffs and says 'Ah, well, Primark' that's not the point I am making. i am just taking about in terms of footfall and I found it heartwarming that people do still want to shop in person.
There is no substitute for looking at the clothes, feeling the texture, looking at yourself in the mirror when you hold it up to your body and trying clothes on. That's exactly what people were doing today. Havinga long good look at the clothes, holding them up and feeling the material.
I do think certain kinds of shops will die in the high street due to online transacting, but there will always be a place for others.
Grendel
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Primark is the one top 15 growing retailers coventry has that I referred to in one of my posts
hill83
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Lovely stuff
Ranjit Bhurpa
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And the gusset, need to feel the gusset
Ranjit Bhurpa
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I find the need to touch and feel merchandise particularly true with food shopping.
Due to laziness, I will occasionally do an online food shop, only to be mightily dischuffed when half of the items are not the size I thought I was ordering. This is probably due to advancing years and a lack of understanding of the metric weight system, but I'm buggered if I'm going to spend all morning comparing the graphics and size options on the website whilst completing the order.
Might as well have got the car out in the first place.
Otis
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Here's a Beeb report on what is doing well on the high street and what is not.
Gyms, cafes and pizza places all doing well, which exactly ties in with what has been happening in Coventry.
Which shops and leisure services are opening and closing? - Reality Check: Which shops are opening and closing?
Gyms, cafes and pizza places all doing well, which exactly ties in with what has been happening in Coventry.
Which shops and leisure services are opening and closing? - Reality Check: Which shops are opening and closing?
Otis
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clint van damme
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Looks great Otis.
Operating between the station and Warwick Uni and Jag Whitley initially.
Operating between the station and Warwick Uni and Jag Whitley initially.
Otis
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Was a pain to get to in Cov if you were coming from the wrong direction. Put me off on many occasions.
No doubt about it, it suffered due to its location. Just interesting they didn't relocate into our city centre. Walked past the old BHS today and thought that at least part of that building would have been a decent location.
Otis
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Grendel
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Never put me off or some of my colleagues. It’s one of the few stores on coventry worth visiting. I’d say I’ve spent more money there then any other store in Coventry over the last few years.
Otis
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Which direction were you coming from?
I always was coming from the wrong direction, so it was a bit of a pain and of course you had to time it with missing the rush hour.
I only ever went the once, though was keen to go a bit more. Always ended up looking at my watch and thinking it's not a good time.
The one time we went we went well out of rush hour traffic.
Have spoken to a few people who were put off coming from that direction.
Grendel
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Always the wrong direction - it took two minutes round the island
Otis
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Not at peak hours it doesn't.
Interesting to hear that Birmingham may implement a congestion charge in the next couple of years.
Apparently £6-£10 per day to use a vehicle inside the ring-road.
Pretty shocking in my opinion. It's the proliferation of buses which stink out their City Centre (and London's as well).
Fortunately my office is bang on the ring road in B'ham and although using the ring road itself, I don't have to go inside it, so shouldn't affect me personally.
Some of the locals are a bit cheesed off at the prospect. Apparently the local government issued a bit of an ultimatum... "we need a tram system, or we'll have to start applying a congestion charge...". They've had the tram update, and now they are still planning the congestion charge scheme as well!
Apparently £6-£10 per day to use a vehicle inside the ring-road.
Pretty shocking in my opinion. It's the proliferation of buses which stink out their City Centre (and London's as well).
Fortunately my office is bang on the ring road in B'ham and although using the ring road itself, I don't have to go inside it, so shouldn't affect me personally.
Some of the locals are a bit cheesed off at the prospect. Apparently the local government issued a bit of an ultimatum... "we need a tram system, or we'll have to start applying a congestion charge...". They've had the tram update, and now they are still planning the congestion charge scheme as well!
fernandopartridge
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They tried that in Greater Manchester in 2007. Had a referendum on the congestion charge which was rejected. They managed to raise the finance for a massive tram expansion without it anyway.
bezzer
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Agreed. Buses and Taxis are on the whole old, high mileage diesels which are filthy.
ccfctommy
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Latest pic of the water park.
I cannot believe I used to work in that building...
Otis
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Bet it was great fun taking stuff down to the post room.
shmmeee
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Work vans are the real problem. Fleet vehicles like buses and taxis can quickly be replaced. Also they’re likely to be autonomous and electric within a decade or two max. Dave’s dodgy white van not so much.
Congestion charging is needed all over the place. I hated bringing my daughter up near the Foleshill Rd, you could taste the fumes. Ether drivers need to start paying out compensation for the damage they cause or we need to take it another way. And I say that as a driver. It’s the next smoking ban: you can’t harm innocent people and refuse to pay compensation or change your actions.
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What I resent, however, is being encouraged to buy diesel by a government telling me it's cleaner, to then have my car potentially taxed into worthlessness by the government!
Grendel
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It is cleaner. The Birmingham embargo was forced on it and all EU6 diesels are excluded from any ban.
D
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And that's also not taking into account the pollution that will come from producing a new car to replace mine, along with disposing of mine.
Natural wastage will get rid of sufficient older cars in time, I don't see why we have to go all draconian. Also not convinced that electric is the way forward, either. Not sure it's as straightforward as that,.
Natural wastage will get rid of sufficient older cars in time, I don't see why we have to go all draconian. Also not convinced that electric is the way forward, either. Not sure it's as straightforward as that,.
Grendel
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The notion all cars will be electric by 2040 is a joke. As a driving machine they are fine but the logistical and infrastructure issues are enourmous