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Maybe National Grid should've left the gas leaking from the damaged pipe in Oulton Broad for five weeks, until the town centre roadworks had finished?
Would that be better? Emergency works happen any time. They don't plan for them.
Incidentally, roadworks have nothing to do with local planners. Suffolk County Council coordinate works on the highway.
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I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said 'Tenpin?' I said, 'No, permanent.'
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AW from what i hear most people are going Somerleyton way to avoid both Low and OB I m on my cycle so I sail past you al haha
Welcome from me too
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The local planners can't be blamed for the roadworks.
They can be blamed for leaving so many roads closed,pedestrianised or one way only that any roadworks in the town cause total chaos as there's nowhere else for traffic to go.
psA Warm Welcome to you Allwrigthy.
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When I came home today the bridge was stuck, well not the bridge we could walk and cycle over, but the barriers were stuck and traffic piling up
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Lowestoft could make a fortune from this....... it could be an Olympic event! ...lol after all its already like an equestrian event! .. jump the lights .... jump the queue’s etc etc ... lol  Mind you Lowestoft over the last few years has already become a down hill event!!
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I heard today of one poor bloke who was so long in a traffic jam in Lowestoft that his MOT and tax ran out.The only good thing was that the police didn't tow his car away as the tow truck was already stuck in the jams the other side of the river.
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is the bridge still out of service for the want of a better expression..... just wondered as in GY, and will go back to Kland via Beccles if need be. Thanks..
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Think its back in order now Munga, traffic seems to be running ok you can always check with the police or radio
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thanks a lot FC..
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Wouldnt that be funny, the police chasing a car after a robbery the bloke just hets over the bridge and the police are trapped. Could be the Lowestoft version of Starsky and Hutch.
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They are back on Wednesday
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Some of the traffic jams last so long that the cars in them now feature on ordnance survey maps.
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The Station Square roadworks have finished for a while.Beach Radio keeps telling everyone they haven't,but they have.
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Perhaps the Chief Honcho at WDC should be told about the link so he's more up to date than last time.
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The road works are back...... all around station square and down Waveney road......
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They looked like they were putting up scaffolding on station square itself.Maybe they are going to have a sewer above ground.Or is it the first stage of the third crossing?.
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Maybe they are going to tart up the station! 
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They'll need paintbrushes with long handles.
The scaffoldings on the other side of the road!
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Yes O.S is the "take your chance crossing" two wooden ramps and with a nice long run up you might beat the traffic
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was chaos at 5pm even for me on my bike... Just what are they doing ? Heart FM had a car there and I notified local BBC of the structure and delays. Is there anything SCC can do about this madness that just does not go away ??
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Yesterday it took 1 hour 45 mins to get from pakefield to the bridge this is just getting silly now.
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The Chief Executive keeps saying he was going to take steps (if he had notice) to minimise the disruption.
Whats he done so far?.
Nothing.
They could have altered the timing of the useless traffic lights at the bottom of Suffolk Road and allowed traffic to temporarily use the pedestrianised bit as an alternative to the closed off left turn into waveney road.They could have given Paul moss and his cronies a flag,whistle and hat and let them direct traffic.They might not be any good at it but they could then see first hand what a total fist up they've made of Lowestofts roads.
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Suffolk County Council care nothing for North Suffolk. They make all their choices in their glass tower without leaving Ipswich
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pakefield has become a mini town centre thank you lowestoft your helping business in pakefield
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In other words some people are going to Pakefield and Beccles instead of Lowestoft
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I live in North Lowestoft and I always shop in Yarmouth. It is quicker and easier to get too and has better shops too. Sad yet true. The only time I would venture through Lowestoft is at 8pm to shop at ASDA.
I cycle to work across town as this is the only way i can get through, plus its healthier, cheaper and quicker !!!
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Could be worse you could be a delivery driver with Lowestoft on your round.
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Never mind free car parking its more cycle parking that's desperately needed.
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I would have thought you could park your cycle almost anywhere, can't you?
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728 - I was referring to the type of shops they have rather than the amount of empty ones. More choice in Yarm than Lowie.
Bigger Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, ( although when the Gorleston Sainsburys open that will be bigger than any supermarket in Yarmouth or Waveney ) Matalan, TKmax, Comet, River Island, blue inc to name but a few and a very good market. This is all my opinion of course
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I would have thought you could park your cycle almost anywhere, can't you?
Not always cycle racks are best, also the benches with hand rests can suffice but in this town with all the lightfingered scum about its best a bike is locked to something secure and put there for that purpose.
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well 728 lets hope so. until then I will head north for quickness and choice.... Matalan would fall under tkmax terms I would have thought ? sainsburys well there are plenty of sites I could mention!!
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Its good the roadworks have finished and well done to WDC for their unstinting efforts to negate the problems they caused.
At last Lowestoft town centre can return to its place as the thriving hub of a busy metropolis,a magnet for the hoardes of discerning shoppers that descend on it on a daily basis.
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Not always cycle racks are best, also the benches with hand rests can suffice but in this town with all the lightfingered scum about its best a bike is locked to something secure and put there for that purpose.
I can remember many years back seeing a bike wheel securely locked to a cycle rack. The rest of the bike had been pinched.
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Only ever lock a bike through the mainframe, not using wheels, especially wheels that have a quick release! Although there's a remote possibility what you saw Meryl was because the owner had lost the lock key and had no option to unscrew the wheel and leave it behind!
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Coolskin, you should email sainsburys, they may not know about them
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Only ever lock a bike through the mainframe, not using wheels, especially wheels that have a quick release! Although there's a remote possibility what you saw Meryl was because the owner had lost the lock key and had no option to unscrew the wheel and leave it behind!
Of course there is that possibility but can't help thinking that the rest of the bike was not a lot of good without the wheel.
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