JakyBF
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[Drinking] The alternatives Real-world examples of how people do economics differently - The Bevy
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nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
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I hope that you are right, but seeing as students who live within a couple hundred yards of the uni now bring lots of vehicles, I cant see why they would not bring them later. If you are right then it is great but I cant see what will change when you concentrate that number of students in such a small area. I hope I am proved wrong, I hope out of 1400 students no one brings cars-.but I cant see that happening
surrey jim
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And so once again the problem of parking just gets pushed further out by introducing permits, and not resolved. Another area has to bear the brunt of displaced vehicles.
I am aware students get a discounted bus price, but is it really only £1 per day? An adult ticket for me is £4.40 via the app
Icy Gull
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Childish I know but that did make me smile
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The concern is only with student cars. So just permit to a distance which will make it impractical for students to bring cars. Say a mile around the campus? I understand there isn’t an issue with residential/non-student cars, so why would any large scale number of these now be displaced? Maybe a few will save on the permit fee and park outside the zone but it wouldn’t be many.
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But how else to solve it? Who do you distinguish between cars belonging to people who already live in the area and students if they don't have a permit system?
I said just over a £1 a day. A yearly pass costs £1.09 a day and if a student buys a three-month term pass, that works out at £1.42, which certainly compares favourably to the cost of running a car.
cunning fergus
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I hope you are right, but even if you are an awful lot of damage has been done.
I have no recollection of the Alex, I was a kid when the Vogue was running, and I’m pretty sure I used to see films there.
I thought the CH was new when they built the Sainsbury’s and changed the whole Vogue gyratory, knocking down Coxs and the railway bridge.
Good memories of the CH though, I don’t know if you ever went there but there used to be regular always on the pool table, I knocked about with him when we were kids. He was a body building fanatic and quite lumpy anyway but unfortunately he was not the full shilling (currently in Broadmoor I think).
I never used to play pool myself there but whenever non locals were in there, they had to play him first.
If you have ever seen the OFAH episode were Del plays imaginary snooker with an escaped mental hospital patient you will be in the ball-park.
The Spanish
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Same here. Old estate boozer getting done up means at some point we will hopefully dismantle capitalism from this tiny acorn thread was rolling on tediously until that little bit of levity. Well played.
The Spanish
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All pubs on Lewes Road have always been shit, forever.
"The day-trippers slowly advancing upon the marina knew what they had come for. The sand, the sea,"
“None of the parties did anything.” This just about sums the country up.
The Alex may well have closed before the gryatory was built; it looked dead the couple of times I went there. I never went to the CH, did go to the Allen a few times but it wasn't great.
It's hard to think of it now but there were four pubs within a 30 metre radius of Lewes Rd, there was no way that all could have survived.
Nah, the Bear's a decent boozer. I used to go there to watch Albion matches on Sky, good atmosphere in there. The pub that shocks me is the Gladstone. It was my grandad's local when I was a kid and generally full of old men, these days it seems to be full of hipsters and anyone over 30 looks a bit out of place. Been there once in its new guise and thought it was all right.