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MADDEST THING IN SALFORD 2020? WIN A GOLDEN BOTTLE OF PROSECCO!
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Star date: 1st January 2020 WHAT IS THE MADDEST THING IN SALFORD RIGHT NOW? To celebrate the start of 2020, the Salford Star is launching a very quick competition to find the maddest thing going on in Salford right now. It could be an outrageous artist, a band, a place, a shop, a business, a movement, a club, a fashion item, a person – anything! The person who suggests the most maddest thing will win a golden bottle of Prosecco! Full details here...
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All sorts of crazy stuff goes on in Salford, most of which is unseen and unheralded. But today, to celebrate the start of 2020 we're launching a competition to find the maddest thing in the city right now. This could be an artwork, a band, a poet, a business, a club, a fashion item, a person, a house...literally anything that readers think everyone needs to know about. Something that's off the wall and out of the box, and exciting... And the person who suggests the maddest thing will win a bottle of Sensi Prosecco Gold, courtesy of Kingsland Drinks in Irlam. Simply email us your idea, photos, whatever, to info@salfordstar.com, marked Maddest Thing In Salford Dept – include your name and email address – by 10th January and this golden bottle of Prosecco could be winging its way to you...Except that we ain't paying for postage so the winner will have to provide an address in Salford where we can drop it off.
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Hedley Clarkson-Hammond-May-Hopper, “Bottom Gear” Presenter (& Nephew to the esteemed Salford Star’s Very Own Hedley Hopper) & Self-Appointed Motoring Correspondent wrote
at 10:35:07 on 08 January 2020 |
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| Dear Readers,
Sorry but Uncle Hedley insisted that I include his name, to ensure I win and give him the crate of 1959 Dom Pérignon Champagne at £32328.24 a bottle that the “Star” is giving away!
In his dreams!! As if I would jeopardise his lifetime membership of AA (including Home Start Option) and as if the “Star” would give away a crate of that most excellent vintage. I fully expect it’ll be a bottle of Allidlesco’s Lambrusco…but I won’t complain if I won.
ANYWAY….my Nomination for “Maddest Thing In Salford 2020” is the Salford Council’s Joint Entry with Manchester City Council for its Regent Road (so called) “Improvements”! All that time, driver frustration, congestion, etc for a few new white lines, moving a few bollards, widening a couple of slip roads off Regent Road and introduce a No Left Turn has resulted in – as the French say, “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose”:
• No change in congestion
• No change in travel times
• No Improvement in drivers’ lane discipline
• No compliance with road signage
• Et al!
In support of Salford Council’s Joint Entry with Manchester City Council, I would cite:
(a) the decreasing speed limit approaching The Crescent; by slowing traffic, congestion is increased as indeed is pollution. Its effect reminds me of the tsunami painting “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Katsushika Hokusai.
(b) The Bus Lane on The Crescent increases vehicular congestion and pollution; suspending the Bus Lane on Eccles Old Road in Hope has reduced congestion and pollution.
By ridding Salford of these sacred cows resting atop the altar of lip service to green issues will get traffic moving and actually reduce pollution overall at peak times in this area but relieve congestion on other eastern entry pinch-points.
(c) Agree and apply a uniform standard for measuring pollution and congestion; not just selecting certain times of the day or certain locations to measure pollution but a city-wide standard to measure pollution and not to be afraid of removing former “improvements” to get traffic moving that have actually increased congestion and pollution. For instance, replacing the traffic chicanes on Cross Lane with pelican crossings (keeping the Lollipop Person at School times) should stop traffic backing up onto Broad St, Liverpool St and other feeder roads and so keeping it moving.
(d) Sensible public transport routes running at times when customers need them and at prices they can afford to attract personal transport users to switch to public transport.
By highlighting these few examples, hopefully Salford Council will start to think outside of the box!
Discuss!
Incidentally, I am not a petrolhead or diesel advocate - I drive an electric vehicle just like Uncle Hedley but mine is an Electric Bugatti Veyron! (yeah, right!)!
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DARREN BORN AND BRED wrote
at 10:26:09 on 06 January 2020 |
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| The big red sign on Briar hill court in the middle of Salford precinct. It says "Salford shopping centre" with a arrow pointing down. It's mad. |
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at 10:25:59 on 06 January 2020 |
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| Still Salford council are mad |
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at 17:59:26 on 04 January 2020 |
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DJB wrote
at 09:19:49 on 04 January 2020 |
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| I vote for the collective of dimble brains who voted for Miss Becky and Babs in the December poll. Mad as a bottle of frogs. |
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BORN AND BRED DARREN wrote
at 11:49:34 on 03 January 2020 |
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| I vote for that MAD person that lives on magnolia luxury Apartments, the guy on £73 a week JSA(dole), the man who moans he's gotta walk 500 yards to *sign on* at the job centre, the character who moans he's *hard done by* by the system, the bloke that moans he's gotta work a few hours a week at the charity shop, the geezer who moans he's gotta to go on *back to work* course just to get a lousy certificate, the guy who moans he's gotta look in bins outside cross lane MacDonalds for leftovers burgers and fries, the bloke who is a satirical master of irony and sarcasm, the geezer that loves "Paul dennett", the man who has got pictures of "sexy hazel blears" on his wall, the guy that said he will go swimming in his underpants in the dirty river irwell, the bloke that says he loves shopping for Ringo's crisps, so people, the bloke who is always calling other people, put you hands together, get the champagne out and clap for the SALFORD MADDEST AWARD goes to ... ROSSI. . yep mate you deserve it, well done. |
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Kev wrote
at 16:43:30 on 02 January 2020 |
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| That the mayor thinks it's OK to live in social housing on £60k a year, when there is a massive waiting list. An what's more bizarre is Salfordians will probably vote him back in... |
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white wrote
at 16:43:18 on 02 January 2020 |
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at 06:05:45 on 02 January 2020 |
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| Obviously it is the council! |
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James carter wrote
at 06:05:23 on 02 January 2020 |
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| Salford is having a rough old time,poverty,crime,drugs,violence,but at the heart of all this madness,real Salford people come together and are very strong and one of a kind folk |
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D Lyons wrote
at 06:02:34 on 02 January 2020 |
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| That Rebecca Long Bailey thinks she can take Labour back to the promised land. |
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