Now that the work on Arundel Gate is almost complete, I am strongly of the opinion that there is far too much walking space and as a direct result a serious lack of road.

Why, I ask? Just why have they done this?

Was the pavement capacity too low to deal with the great throngs of people who they are expecting to converge on this uninteresting piece of roadway in the near future?

Just what's going on?

Somebody please enlighten me. Please!

Last time I walked along there a lot of the paved area appeared to be 'red brick' cycle path. Definitely not pedestrian friendly when in use:mad:

It's another piece of the council's plan to exclude motorists from the city centre.

They would look a little silly trying to do this after they spent all those millions on turning Charter Row and Arundel Gate into dual-carriageways with pedestrian and vehicle underpasses etc., so they've now spent a few more million converting it all back to pedestrian precinct with a small concession to vehicular traffic.

Once it is operational there will be five or six pedestrian crossings to contend with between St. Mary's Gate and the bottom of Norfolk Street.

And of course the scheme has provided much needed work for the council's 'in house' civil engineering department.

It gives the "revellers" pouring out from Purple more room to safely stab each other without having to take their business on to the road and risk being run over. The addition of a few new trees outside of Purple also gives the "gentlemen" somewhere scenic to urinate, and the extra pavement capacity will be able to deal with several more heaps of vomit. Surely these advantages outweigh the 'minor' side effect of strangled traffic flow leading to worse congestion and pollution??

Originally posted by t020
It gives the "revellers" pouring out from Purple more room to safely stab each other without having to take their business on to the road and risk being run over. The addition of a few new trees outside of Purple also gives the "gentlemen" somewhere scenic to urinate, and the extra pavement capacity will be able to deal with several more heaps of vomit. Surely these advantages outweigh the 'minor' side effect of strangled traffic flow leading to worse congestion and pollution??

It's funny because it's true!!!

Narrow the road, enlarge the pavement, put a bus lane in, have a complicated one way system, and then....put a multi-storey public car park on the site of the Yorkshire grey and claim there will be more car parking spaces then ever in the city:loopy:

Dion't you just love it?

To be pedantic, that's Eyre Street, not Arundel Gate.

Anyway... the reason that Arundel Gate is still open, and receives such a lot of attention is that it is effectively the Council's own private road to the Town Hall and Council Offices...and all the parking that they discourage others from having. :roll:

Originally posted by t020
It gives the "revellers" pouring out from Purple more room to safely stab each other without having to take their business on to the road and risk being run over. The addition of a few new trees outside of Purple also gives the "gentlemen" somewhere scenic to urinate, and the extra pavement capacity will be able to deal with several more heaps of vomit. Surely these advantages outweigh the 'minor' side effect of strangled traffic flow leading to worse congestion and pollution??

I know you're right, which is bad because I have to wait for the bus there every morning with all the remnants of last nights 'revelry' all around. Yack

It really is beyond me, it really is. It's not even a shopping area. It's just a basic city throughway and the pedestrian superficie is much posher than that of the poor old decrepit Moor!