Knockdown college
Mar. 23rd, 2005 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewxA common response to complaints about a shortage of road space in Cambridge is “which college do you want to knock down?”.
[Poll #459884]ewxewxA common response to complaints about a shortage of road space in Cambridge is “which college do you want to knock down?”.
[Poll #459884]
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:21 pm (UTC)(Shouldn't we be donating money to somewhere to buy the cheapest college and knock it down? I'm happy to keep the kitty.)
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:34 pm (UTC)And the UL (once all the lovely books are out of course), it's evil! </ranty ex-student>
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:36 pm (UTC)I think that we could lose land economy.
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:38 pm (UTC)Do you really want shoggoths spontaneously instantiating in the Guildhall?
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:41 pm (UTC)The answer is clearly to ban all traffic from the most central part of cambridge town and then offer a park-and-rickshaw scheme. Park the car for a reasonable fee (as now) and walk, or park and pay a little more for a rickshaw pass - hail a rickshaw to get zipped around the city for those places that are a little further away.
At the end of the day, people are basically lazy, and whilst cycling is good and many do it, transporting shopping on a bike can get a bit more problematical, especially with the daft anti-motorbike/cycle-with-panniers barriers up at the ends of many off-the-road cycle paths.
Park-and-rickshaw seems to make more sense in that respect. Those that walk, will walk, and those that can't/won't have an option that would see the centre of the city free of the numpties circulating from one side to the other to get to a car park close to where they want to shop - and stop the ones that park somewhere, shop, go back, park somewhere else, shop more, drive back across the city to go home...
Shoggoths!
Date: 2005-03-23 02:44 pm (UTC)Re: Shoggoths!
Date: 2005-03-23 02:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:49 pm (UTC)I think Cambridge has been a functioning community for many centuries, and has an impeccable balance between roads, colleges, shops, private houses, student lodging, and so on. All that's needed is to stop accumulating ever more people, dammit!
Yes, I know that'e easier said than done, especially with all these silly people who keep having children…
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Date: 2005-03-23 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 02:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 03:09 pm (UTC)However, Fitzwilliam is just TOO DAMNED UGLY to stay.
Oh soddit...
Date: 2005-03-23 03:10 pm (UTC)and I'll leave the car at home!
http://www.a-v-d.com/MOVIES/windQT.mov (quicktime)
http://www.clubwindcheetah.com/MOVIES/wind.mpg (MPEG)
I want one!
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Date: 2005-03-23 03:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 03:21 pm (UTC)Can we knock down bits of colleges?
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Date: 2005-03-23 03:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 03:26 pm (UTC)I'm possibly biased regarding Churchill but I don't think it's as bad as many people seem to; it's not beautiful but there are far uglier buildings in Cambridge.
Robinson I always thought was visually quite nice.
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Date: 2005-03-23 03:30 pm (UTC)Robinson's very... *red*.
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Date: 2005-03-23 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-23 03:35 pm (UTC)