PLENTY of warning near school for traffic going to Farnworth is needed before the decent

another photo opportunity for everyone favourite Tory turncoat, Sean Hornby

Did they put a button at the base of the crossing incase Cyrill the spider wants to cross as well?

Well bugger me backwards,i didn't know horses could read.

roundhead wrote:
Well bugger me backwards,i didn't know horses could read.

you have a roundhead and you want to be buggered and backwards?? Does this mean you watch little britain???

Well done Bolton council. School kids dont get a freshly cooked meal anymore despite parents paying over the odds for them, to save the council money........but the bloody horses can cross the road safely because Bolton MBC have installed a crossing for them................
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My road tax is about £150. How much for a horse! Ridiculous waste of money

Thanks Bill & Ben for your wise words about the crossing!,now how about sorting out the STUPID mini roundabout on church st that serves no perpurse whatsoever!.

If pelicans can have crossings why not horses ?

Jacko wrote:
Thanks Bill & Ben for your wise words about the crossing!,now how about sorting out the STUPID mini roundabout on church st that serves no perpurse whatsoever!.

perpurse?

Montys mum wrote:

Jacko wrote: Thanks Bill & Ben for your wise words about the crossing!,now how about sorting out the STUPID mini roundabout on church st that serves no perpurse whatsoever!.

perpurse?

Does it matter you very sad person?.

Can we forget the horses for one moment and read the article again? This crossing is for pedestrians and cyclists as well as horses and riders. No doubt the horse aspect makes the item a little more newsworthy but it isn’t just for them! I worked as a ranger at Moses Gate from 1978 until a few years ago, and for me the title of the article would refer more to the fact that this crossing has been needed since the conception of the Country Park over 30 years ago!

Even when there was much reduced traffic in 1980 it was still very dangerous to cross at its junction with the track known as Fogg Lane The Ranger Service and the old Greater Manchester Council looked into several ways of providing a safe crossing, amongst them using the track that is under the road bridge over the River Croal as a subway. Sadly the demise of GMC in 1986 and loss of funding that it provided for the countryside schemes meant plans had to be shelved.

I would suggest that those of you complaining about a waste of money visit the location first and see why it is so desperately needed. When crossing from the Rock Hall side visibility to the right is limited to literally a few yards and is at the bottom of a hill so traffic is often well over the speed limit. If it had been an intersection of two roads, action would have been taken many years ago, in fact I can’t think of a junction anywhere in Bolton MBC that has such limited visibility. It is miraculous that there hasn’t been a serious accident here in the past, probably due to people too scared to use it!

The installation of this crossing will mean that the huge and largely unused part of the Country Park that is north of Hall Lane will at last be able to be safely accessed by ALL users from the very popular southern section that contains Crompton Lodges, Rock Hall Visitor Centre and the main car park for the area. It will also encourage more users of the Kingfisher Trail and other walking routes that cross Hall Lane at this point.

Sorry I had meant to say
"a junction on a main road anywhere in Bolton"
at the end of the penultimate paragraph.

Jacko wrote:

Montys mum wrote:

Jacko wrote: Thanks Bill & Ben for your wise words about the crossing!,now how about sorting out the STUPID mini roundabout on church st that serves no perpurse whatsoever!.

perpurse?

Does it matter you very sad person?.

Yes it does Matter when STUPID people don't know how to use the STUPID roundabout