Bit of a disappointment, the wind mostly blew itself out during the night and changed course a little to the south which meant Berry Head protected the Bay, which is it's job with all those Napoleonic Forts up there. Anyway it seems to be a good job we didn't end up on the diversion. Some from the depot apparently took a bus round the diversion just to make sure the trees hadn't got too big since we last used the route, which was almost a year ago. It wasn't trees that were the problem though but parked cars along the way which made it almost imposable to get the bus through. And that was without all the other traffic that has to use this road when then sea front is closed. A couple of years ago it was so bad the 20 min trip from Torquay to Paignton took an hour. In the past we have used the ring road which though longer does tend to take less time, the problem is it misses 7 bus stops out. The complicated route past all the tree branches and between all the parked cars only misses out 5 stops. We will have to wait for the next storm to see what happens. Another problem was that some newer drivers on the 12/12A route haven't been route learned on the diversion, a bit like me the first time I used it and ended up in a 9 foot wide road with a hill in the middle and a nasty bend just over the hill. The tricky part was when 3 cars suddenly came the other way and had to reverse 50 yards.
No East wind forcast for the next 5 days so no chance of the sea front being washed away just yet.
Maybe the council will build a bigger sea wall (but only if they win the lottery).
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You know the Council wont build a bigger sea wall until that one actually falls down
Don't you mean 20 years after the old one falls down.
Back in the days of Devon General buses were not allowed to use the diversion but had to cross Livermead regardless- of course back then they had conductors to keep the doors shut by leaning on them.
I kid you not:-))
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