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chameleon
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Car flips at roundabout
A PENSIONER was taken to hospital and a car flipped on its roof in an accident at 9.10am yesterday at the A6120 ring road and Station Road in Cross Gates, Leeds.
A Honda CRV and a Ford Ka collided on the roundabout. The Ka overturned and the driver of the Honda, a 79-year old Colton woman, was taken to hospital with "non-life threatening" injuries.
Hope they weren't confused wondering what the brightly coloured civil engineering works in the middle were all about?
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YEP:
Car flips at roundabout
A PENSIONER was taken to hospital and a car flipped on its roof in an accident at 9.10am yesterday at the A6120 ring road and Station Road in Cross Gates, Leeds.
A Honda CRV and a Ford Ka collided on the roundabout. The Ka overturned and the driver of the Honda, a 79-year old Colton woman, was taken to hospital with "non-life threatening" injuries.
Hope they weren't confused wondering what the brightly coloured civil engineering works in the middle were all about? |
They were probably wondering which half-wit painted the damn things red, white and black (on a Sunday afternoon if another story in the YEP is to be believed). Talk about sneaky!
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The 'red' looked more red/brown to me - until this evening when I noticed they are now also illuminated!
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chameleon
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| The 'red' looked more red/brown to me - until this evening when I noticed they are now also illuminated! |
Does the Council have a Green Policy in terms of Carbon Footprint?
Perhaps one of the Local Councillors looking in could justify this latest addition in terms of an environmental impact assessment?
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Drove past tonight and noticed that the sheep are back again. 
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chameleon
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In the ubiquitous YEP today there is (yet another) piece about 'the gates'. It seems now that the initial figure of £k143 now includes the stone and the lighting (not the sheep though).
That said, it looks as though the respray of antoher £k11 or so is on top of this and, wait for it, yes there's another £k46 being put in the piggy-bank for maintenance over the next ten years.
I tell, you, if gates cost that much to look after, there's no wonder farmers tell us they're going bankrupt
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£11 grand to respray? £11 grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? Jeeeeez...
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chameleon
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| £11 grand to respray? £11 grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? Jeeeeez... |
....and for some 'minor alterations'. All that and they couldn't get it right first time round?
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Si
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| £11 grand to respray? £11 grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? Jeeeeez... |
....and for some 'minor alterations'. All that and they couldn't get it right first time round? |
In Otley, we got a bit of dry-stone wall and a lump of rock with "Otley" carved on it. Don't know what it cost, but I'd guess less than £11,000! Bloody hope so, anyway!
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chameleon
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Talking of things on roundabouts has stirred a small memory - there is a roundabout down the estate at the junction of Farm Road and Pool Road close to the school.
In the centre was a single lowley gas lamp, long gone of course and can't have done much other than show the road went round it!
Long gone of course but does anyone remember any others in unusual places I wonder?
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| Drove past tonight and noticed that the sheep are back again. |
It had gone again yesterday evening - I thought it looked good on the black / blue gate!
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Aye! and how much will they cost? I reckon I could knock something like that up for about a tenner!
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Speaking as a designer.......IMO all three are nonesense.
Art by lowest tender. Then art by committee. Now art by public vote. Oh dear... And before anyone says, "You're a designer...you do better," there's no point. Chapeltown, or anywhere else, doesn't need a "welcome to" piece of art - it's a waste of money, time and effort, like having your own cartoon character in your advertising, or someone dressed as a bear to generate business for a roadside carwash. It's pathetic!
Sorry - went off on a bit of a rant there!
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or someone dressed as a bear to generate business for a roadside carwash. It's pathetic!
Sorry - went off on a bit of a rant there! |
Not that you're bitter about the experience! :-D
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Si
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or someone dressed as a bear to generate business for a roadside carwash. It's pathetic!
Sorry - went off on a bit of a rant there! |
Not that you're bitter about the experience! :-D
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LOL! No it's not me in there...I may be unemployed at the moment, but I'm not that bloody desperate!
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chameleon
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| Si wrote: |
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| Si wrote: |
or someone dressed as a bear to generate business for a roadside carwash. It's pathetic!
Sorry - went off on a bit of a rant there! |
Not that you're bitter about the experience! :-D
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LOL! No it's not me in there...I may be unemployed at the moment, but I'm not that bloody desperate!
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I know that Councillors budgets are alreqady set aside for these wasteful quests but, after the furoe and critiscm to date you really would think tact and diplomacy might creep in somewhere for a while!
But then....
(I don't see much there represnting tradition or the past heritge and prosperity of the area either in those charismatic and colourfull offerings either)
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Si
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| Si wrote: |
or someone dressed as a bear to generate business for a roadside carwash. It's pathetic!
Sorry - went off on a bit of a rant there! |
Not that you're bitter about the experience! :-D
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LOL! No it's not me in there...I may be unemployed at the moment, but I'm not that bloody desperate!
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(I don't see much there represnting tradition or the past heritge and prosperity of the area either in those charismatic and colourfull offerings either) |
Precisely. "Let's have something colourful and fun..." groan...
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We should have a competition to come up with other literal pieces of art that could be erected in other Leeds suburbs at vast expense.
Can I suggest a bucket of pigs swill with a one ton weight (for Swillington), a painting of actor Tim Roth leant against a well (Rothwell)) and a gathering of trees taking candy from a baby (Meanwood). A statue of a stocky gentleman could represent Burley and another statue of footballer Lee Champan heading a football could be placed in Headingley. That should do for a start.
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I'm afraid Mr Pergusey the artist, who "lives in the area" is way ahead of you, Davey. In consultation with local residents, he's done a big letter "C" (for Chapeltown - clever, huh?) with "Welcome to Chapeltown" written on it. You're thinking too hard... a big "R" for Rothwell, a big "H" for Headingley, crossed gates for Crossgates...
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chameleon
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| Si wrote: |
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or someone dressed as a bear to generate business for a roadside carwash. It's pathetic!
Sorry - went off on a bit of a rant there! |
Not that you're bitter about the experience! :-D
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LOL! No it's not me in there...I may be unemployed at the moment, but I'm not that bloody desperate!
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(I don't see much there represnting tradition or the past heritge and prosperity of the area either in those charismatic and colourfull offerings either) |
Precisely. "Let's have something colourful and fun..." groan...
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Representing who and what exactly??
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chameleon
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We should have a competition to come up with other literal pieces of art that could be erected in other Leeds suburbs at vast expense.
Can I suggest a bucket of pigs swill with a one ton weight (for Swillington), a painting of actor Tim Roth leant against a well (Rothwell)) and a gathering of trees taking candy from a baby (Meanwood). A statue of a stocky gentleman could represent Burley and another statue of footballer Lee Champan heading a football could be placed in Headingley. That should do for a start. |
Statute of a horse mounted by the traditional Court Jester, complete with 'Fool's Hat' outsidew the Civic Hall?
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I'm assuming the three designs "to choose from" are just illustrations or CGI? If not, what happens to the other two, and did we pay for them, too?
When the North East wanted a "welcome to Gateshead" sign, they didn't piddle about with a gate with a head on it on a roundabout somewhere, and get the locals to vote for the nicest colour. No, they did it properly. Antony Gormley's Angel of the North might not be to everyone's taste, but it makes a bloody big statement, and has become an icon of the north east, and in the south, the north generally. If only we'd had the Brick Man.......instead we get some crossed gates for Cross Gates, and a big C for Chapeltown. Puts it in perspective, dunnit? If you can't do it properly, don't do it at all.
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In Otley, we got a bit of dry-stone wall and a lump of rock with "Otley" carved on it. Don't know what it cost, but I'd guess less than £11,000! Bloody hope so, anyway!
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The one on the roundabout at the top of Yeadon High Street, which was either put there or sponsored by the local Round Table has either disappeared or has been surrounded by shrubbery. I think there's a similar one in Guiseley (by the roundabout at the junction of Queensway, Oxford Road and Towngate?) so I assume they were all put there by the same group.
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Here's a picture of Gormley's Leeds Brick Man model, now in the art gallery. The actual monolith, made from Leeds recycled bricks, was to be 120ft high (some sources state 180ft - the Angel of the North is 60ft) and would have stood in the Holbeck railway triangle, marking the true gateway to the north. Just over 20 years ago, the plans were rejected, partly by public poll. However, with hindsight, perhaps we should have gone ahead. I think so anyway. Yes, I know it would have cost a fortune (as did the Angel of the North) but it would really have put Leeds on the map, and rendered all the other provincial public sculptures pointless. (It would have cost £600K, but compared to the Cross Gates gates at £143K, it doesn't sound too bad for Britain's (by far) largest sculpture.)
As it happens, Manchester have recently taken an interest in the project...
Has Leeds missed the boat again? I apologise if this has been covered in the past, but what do other SL people think? Am I a lone voice?
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