Not these bloody big trees but some smaller trees further down the road.
This bus stop is outside the Princess Theatre and is not in use due to the road being too narrow to stop. If we did stop, passing vehicles would be in danger of a head on RTC which would block the road and we don't want that do we?
As you can see there is a fair camber on the road and not a great deal of room. So far I have driven each way twice and driven fairly slowly on both occasions. One thing about this stretch of road, it used to be full of parked cars and if anyone driving a car in front of the bus saw a parking space they would stop and reverse slowly into it, even if they didn't really want to park there but in Torquay on-road parking places are so rare motorist found it difficult to drive past any available spot. Some times this could happen two or three times increasing the journey time by three or four minutes. Now no parking along here so that problem has gone. Until some idiot decides to park.
Parking at the Princess Theatre could become a problem in the evening and is a problem for the council to look at in detail.
The road is going to be like this until work has been done to fix the rock face which will not actually start until at least September and could then take months. How many months? No one is saying officially but think of a film with Henry Fonda in it, a court room drama type film, lots of angry men shouting at each other.
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Now that's certain to upset some people who have been getting on Paignton/Brixham buses on the "Wrong" side of Fleet Walk and the rest of the diversion routes.
BUT great to see things back to some sort of normality.
Finally!! They haven't covered up the not-in-use stop though!
I know Transport for London have special ready made covers. But it can be simpler! Surrey County Council use black bin liners - much more coast effective!!
The stop was covered up on Wednesday evening after a bit of promting from one of the drivers ( guess who) and will remain covered now in till next year. Poor thing only got erected two days before the road was closed so hasn't seen much action.
How about cardboard cutouts of portly NCP parking attendants?
Still plenty of cars stopping in the sort of layby outside the theatre, blissfully unaware of the obstruction they are causing
Yes to cars stoping at the Theatre; that is something our beloved council are going to have to work on. Imagine half a dozen coaches unloading outside the theatre. Great minds will have to come up with a solution fairly fast.
Pavement is big enough, tell them to park on that hehe
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