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This sounds pretty promising!
Marc | 08.08.08 - 7:03 a.m. | #
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I got stuck in a traffic jam there last year.
I bet its the balloons ...
Debster | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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I've recently moved onto the road... no 100 interesting words yet on any issue; although I could possibly find some less than charitable ones about the various estate agents on the road that I deal with in getting here!
James Webster | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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"a well-rutted route" - actually, most of hte rutting takes place in car parks off the Wanstead Flats
Ham | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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Ooh shall I buy the domain...
Claire | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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I once asked the borough's head of civil engineering why the pavement over the railway bridge (By the DLR station) had been paved with 'heavy duty' blocks (i.e. those capable of taking heavy loads without cracking) if the bridge itself could not carry the loads...(the road was narrowed with temporary/permanent blocks to reduce the number of vehicles on the bridge at any one time as soon as the new paving was completed.)There was no response.....
Bina | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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A real boon for the residents and pedestrians alike, would be to scrap all (or as many as possible) of the barriers along the edge of the pavement.
IsarSteve | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Its still full of revolting peasants.
Colin in Thailand | 08.08.08 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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I live just around the corner from you, DG. I always thought the bit of road between Mile End station and Bow Road station could be really attractive if it had a few more trees and some nice shops. Some of the new appartments going up look lik they'll have good quality retail space. Some street cafes would be an improvement. And I hope they leave some grass infront of whatever is put where the old hospital is as it looks really nice there at the moment (despite a tumbling building behind it and a busy road infront of it, it looks like it'd be lovely to sit in there).
Caspar | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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I'll have to have a think about this one. The only thing I can offer for now is that there used to be a Marks and Spencers at Stratford, it was right at the end of the shopping strip. I think it's been gone for at least 20 years.
*pointless Grandpa Simpson type rambling*
SSS | Homepage | 08.08.08 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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when i was studying at Stratford college i would alway take my bus from Stratford bus stationStratford aerial
Siddiq | 08.08.08 - 1:21 p.m. | #
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Looking forward to the tour. This route figures in my life so much, it's scary. Born on it, grew up and went to school a stone's throw away from it, went to uni on it (friends at one end and me at the other), was supposed to get married on it (well not literally on it, Bow Registry Office). I hope I'll be there in 2012.
s | 08.08.08 - 1:49 p.m. | #
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The 1950s(?) Stratford M&S building still stands at the extreme west end
orth side of The Broadway. I think it sells bad taste furniture. "Your M&S" have completely pulled the plug on the traditional East - Barking went in the 1980s/early-90s, East Ham more recently.
Bowroaduk | 08.08.08 - 7:24 p.m. | #
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er, this is quite an old story.
it was rubbished at the time as simply not true - you're absolutely right, the roads are historic ones.
therefore they will be keeping their original names.
no one was ever going to name it Olympic Boulevard or High Street 2012 - those are names for the project, not the streets.
sorry but it's ludicrous and an error.
CRAiG | Homepage | 09.08.08 - 12:58 a.m. | #
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CRAiG - I've re-read what I wrote, and I don't think I ever said the roads were being renamed. Re-branded, sure, but not re-named.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.08.08 - 2:03 a.m. | #
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I like your project as you put up the post about each section. great stuff.
but it's seriously ingenuous to suggest they'll be rebranded, either. they won't! seriously, check with the local authority. HS2012 is the name for the funding and project, it won't be on signs or anything like it.
CRAiG | Homepage | 10.08.08 - 4:44 a.m. | #
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I'm saddened that Olympic Boulevard can't be used somewhere in the project naming/signage. HS2012 doesn't have the same ting about it.
rashbre | Homepage | 10.08.08 - 11:31 p.m. | #
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High Street 2012. Lovely.
Reminds me of "Curry 2000" on Hackney Road. It probably sounded futuristic once, too.
Battersea Pig | 13.08.08 - 12:37 p.m. | #
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