nottingham vision

In message <sPStk.55380$le1.10550@newsfe11.ams2>, at 14:28:02 on Fri, 29
Aug 2008, flybywire <ramrod@ny.com> remarked:
>vehicle free porte cochere !!!

It'll be full of shops.

>eh up its Nottingum not Paris
>
>Define porte cochere
>port cochere. A covered entranceway, as to a hotel, designed to
>accommodate cars.
>
>so its not a porte cochere if there are no cars me duck

ROFL! But as it's clearly a porte cocherie at the moment, when they
throw out the cars, what then? An Ex-port(e) Cochere?

Which raises my main question about the development - they have a taxi
pickup/dropoff in Station Rd, which is great as long as they move some
sort of ticket office there (otherwise it'll be a huge trek to the new
ticket office, and probably inside the barriered area as well) but what
about private car pickup/dropoff. That also applies to "private hire"
'taxis' which are treated differently in Nottingham already, when it
comes to access to things. In particular one road very near the station
is "licenced taxis and buses only".

They'll also need somewhere else to park the inevitable fleets of "rail
replacement buses" which currently use Station Rd. Or are architects
like these not allowed to believe that such things exist?
--
Roland Perry

In message <g9b5ci$52i$1@leverton.org>, at 09:54:26 on Sat, 30 Aug 2008,
Nick Leverton <nick@leverton.org> remarked:
>... and the weather is always sunny, skies are blue, concrete stays
>pristine gleaming white for its entire life rather than dull dank
>rain-stained grey,

And it never rains on the road where you will have to get in and out of
taxis (see slide 15).
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4Yd$DUbK0$tIFA00@perry.co.uk...
> In message <sPStk.55380$le1.10550@newsfe11.ams2>, at 14:28:02 on Fri, 29
> Aug 2008, flybywire <ramrod@ny.com> remarked:
>>vehicle free porte cochere !!!
>
> It'll be full of shops.
>
>>eh up its Nottingum not Paris
>>
>>Define porte cochere
>>port cochere. A covered entranceway, as to a hotel, designed to
>>accommodate cars.
>>
>>so its not a porte cochere if there are no cars me duck
>
> ROFL! But as it's clearly a porte cocherie at the moment, when they throw
> out the cars, what then? An Ex-port(e) Cochere?
>
> Which raises my main question about the development - they have a taxi
> pickup/dropoff in Station Rd, which is great as long as they move some
> sort of ticket office there (otherwise it'll be a huge trek to the new
> ticket office, and probably inside the barriered area as well) but what
> about private car pickup/dropoff. That also applies to "private hire"
> 'taxis' which are treated differently in Nottingham already, when it comes
> to access to things. In particular one road very near the station is
> "licenced taxis and buses only".
>
> They'll also need somewhere else to park the inevitable fleets of "rail
> replacement buses" which currently use Station Rd. Or are architects like
> these not allowed to believe that such things exist?
> --
Also, what about replacement bus services when there are engineering works?
They forgot this when Sheffield was done, so passengers now have to walk to
the bus station.

Peter Fox

In message <48bab4fa$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, at 16:12:58 on
Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Peter Fox <peterfoxdore@tiscali.co.uk> remarked:
>> They'll also need somewhere else to park the inevitable fleets of "rail
>> replacement buses" which currently use Station Rd. Or are architects like
>> these not allowed to believe that such things exist?

>Also, what about replacement bus services when there are engineering works?
>They forgot this when Sheffield was done, so passengers now have to walk to
>the bus station.

Those were some of the buses I was referring to. (They aren't all
because of work-to-rule on a Sunday).
--
Roland Perry