"But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Alternatively…
“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.”
Barely seems like 4 weeks since we were launching a witch hunt because someone cut down a tree near Hadrian’s wall…
Shrewsbury needs it’s bypasses improved but there must be a way to swing around the tree.
In the picture there sure is a lot of area around the tree… But hey, if they have a hard on to cut down old significant trees, who’s to stop them.
Significant because of its age? Sure. Significant because of its tenuous ties to Darwin? Someone named it Darwin’s Oak a couple years ago to gather public sympathy against the project. You could argue against any development in the area because “Darwin may have walked on these grounds and threw rocks in this stream as a child”.
Yeah I’m all for keeping old trees like this one but that’s because old trees are good in and of themselves. I care less about Darwin possibly having climbed it 200 years ago and more about little boys and girls climbing it 200 years from now. Nobody will be driving on that bypass in 200 years but I do hope that children will still be climbing trees like this one.
Ah yes. Darwin’s stream. We should protect that stream.
I can tell you there’s fuck all chance Darwin was near it.
Shrewsbury needs it’s bypasses improved
Does it, though? I see a perfectly good railroad, as well as National Cycle Route 81, running right through town. So WTF does anybody need a bypass for?
To turn public funds into private profits.
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The reason behind building around the farm seems to be something quite practical:
“The myth was somewhat debunked last year when a recently unearthed documentary revealed that a geological fault, rather than an awkward farmer, was the real reason for Stott Hall, which lies west of Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, being left in that peculiar location.”
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Classic @fuckcars material.
Is there not a legal challenge people can make?
Imagine being this addicted to cars. Wait, thats literally every country i know about. Humanity, get your fucking shit together, your home is burning and you try to extinguish the fire with oil.
Sigh. Yet another thing that must be sacrificed on the altar of the almighty motor car.
Funny how there’s no massive national campaign against this like there was against HS2.
Curious if transplantation is an available option
Too old too big, I’ve seen it.