Ironic Objection

[Richard A Thackeray]

When it was built, it was objected to
When it was closed, it was objected to

Now, it could be reopened.............. guess what??

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-53848462

 

[alicat]

Yeah, nobody likes change except a baby with a wet nappy.

 

[Drago]

Objections are great. In a nearby town the residents objected to a supermarket being built on a brownfield site. Too much traffic, they said, although it seems the objectors are quite happy to add to traffic in other peoples towns themselves when they go shopping.

So there was no supermarket. Instead, they got 300 new houses, and more traffic, crime and bad parking than the small supermarket would ever have brought, and they're moaning about that instead.

 

[rikki]

Objections are great. In a nearby town the residents objected to a supermarket being built on a brownfield site. Too much traffic, they said, although it seems the objectors are quite happy to add to traffic in other peoples towns themselves when they go shopping.

So there was no supermarket. Instead, they got 300 new houses, and more traffic, crime and bad parking than the small supermarket would ever have brought, and they're moaning about that instead.

bananas outdo nimbys.
banana = Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything

 

[swee'pea99]

Ironic and illiterate both...

 

[DRM]

Stupid idea, I cannot see who will pay to ride on a train such a short distance, just leave it alone.

 

[winjim]

Stupid idea, I cannot see who will pay to ride on a train such a short distance, just leave it alone.

Presumably they'd have to connect it to the rest of the network, unless it's one of those tiny toy trains.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I would vote for it if they’d also close every connecting road between Matlock and Buxton to motorised traffic. Plus no car parks built along the new railway.

 

[pawl]

You fools every where.The valley is gone now every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton You fools every where

John Ruskin 1863 Wrote the valley is gone.Don't know know if it is still there was a plaque with the quote was attached to the wall of the bridge


True to the current proposal

 

[DaveReading]

So there was no supermarket. Instead, they got 300 new houses

Must have been a helluva supermarket planned.

 

[MontyVeda]

Living in a university town, there's been an awful lot of student accommodation built in recent years, and the locals always moan about it... complaining that housing should be provided for locals instead. A few weeks ago, proposals for a handful of new housing developments (for locals) were reported... and guess what?

 

[ColinJ]

Living in a university town, there's been an awful lot of student accommodation built in recent years, and the locals always moan about it... complaining that housing should be provided for locals instead. A few weeks ago, proposals for a handful of new housing developments (for locals) were reported... and guess what?

The students objected to it...?

 

[MontyVeda]

The students objected to it...?

if only.

 

[pawl]

View from Monsal Head car park