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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/3848463.stm

I used to live in Cumbria and really have to question the need for a hugely expensive 12 mile long bridge to Barrow in Furness FFS !
Think they could spend the billions of cash on something better than making the Lake Disctrict an hour quicker to get to.

 

Sorry but fookin great idea and DEFFO good for lakeside tourism IMO

Should make it easier for some of my northern customers to reach me and spend more cash too

 

A good point Stu - but they could just give you at least one of the millions of £££s it would take to build instead

 

12mile bridge to the middle of fookin nowhere! They wont even splash out on a couple mile long tunnel to avoid the biggest accident blackspot and the only piece of single carridgeway on the gloucester-swindon-london road round here.

I reallly want a long duelcarridgeway tunnel too, car will sound ace

 

I think Stu is right as I live in Barrow just think of the money I could save on petrol and spend it on the car rather than drive all the way round the sodding A590, and you hit the nail right on the head Itsmeagain we are right in the middle of no fookin where wanting to get out quicker rather than traveling along that fookin A590 that has more accidents than vanessa felts (bad spelling) has hot dinners

 

I understand Steve as my whole family is from Barrow mate so i spent a lot of my younger years driving to and from Walney island and Blackpool...

 

Think the tourism thing is a bit weak though, as I would think most people head for the central lakes like, Windermere, Ullswater, and Keswick. And access off the M6 via Kendal or Penrith aint that bad surely.

 

Well I lie when I say Barrow as its Walney island I live on good old ocean road just to add that little bit extra time onto my journey so as you well know its a bstard of a journey lol

 

I think they are only building it so you can spot cockle pickers
just kidding i think it is a cracking idea speaking as a trucky who drives up and down there all the time.

PS stu have you just bought a shit load of turbos from garrett


simon

 

No mate, interesting question though, so im intrigued to know why?

 

Lol you would get a good view of them flooting past from the bridge

 

I was in garrett today in cheadle and i noticed a few big pallets labelled up for MSD Blackpool thought it might of been you

simon

 

Really?

How Bizzare...................

 

Sorry stu cant give you any more info i just saw them and thought of you

simon

 

Agreed Great idea IMO, I particularly like the idea of 12miles of straight road!

 

Id deffo spend more time floating around on Windermere in the sun if i could get there faster

 

Hopefully on the boats and not in your car

 

Cheadle as in Manchester???

 

WTF For in a deisel?

 

Do they have nothing better to spend ONE BILLION POUNS on??

Bound to go at least £100m over budget as well.

 

If the bridge was built it would mean that people could easily visit the bus depot in Barrow-in-Furness - made famous by the unusual gastronomical habits of the godzilla like monster in that old Chewits TV advert.

 

Yes mate

simon

 

Fookin GREAT idea as that road is a fookin nightmare

 

i remember that

as soon as i hear barrow in furness, i always think of the bus depot. how sad and old must some of these kids think we are?

 

"Welcome to Barrow-in-Furness. Home of the plasticine Chewits monster"

 

SLAG!!! Won't be forever mate, I'll be back in the fast car scene again as soon as the house is sorted

 

Don't worry mate, I remember it & I'm 25

 

So we are famous for building submarines, cockle pickers, garza strip (our nite clubs), and the fecking big Chewits monster

 

& not to forget the first outbreak of Legionnaires disease in the UK for about 30 years

Saw your motor the other day on Tesco's roundabout BTW mate, looked well What spec is she? Noticed the MSD stickers

 

Cheers mate, its a 1800 zetec, with kent cams, power boost valve, k&N, magnex exhaust, and I got kenny to sort it out for me at motorsport developments as head gasket went got put back together (by roosecoat service center barrow) and ran like shit so took it to MSD and they got it running like a dream (mass air flow sensor got fooked and cams out) so going back to get it mapped on 19th July
As for Legionnaires mate forgot about that , didnt see you though should have flashed or beeped me mate

 

- i work in morecambe and personally think it would be a good idea but the cost kinda offsets the benefits - it'll be costing us in taxes for the next 10yrs!

anyways, i've noticed that there are lots of morecambe/barrow dwellers here and wondered if you're part of the Morecambe Car Club -
http://www.morecambecarclub.co.uk

used to have a lovely orion 1600e which i think a guy off here bought - hope she is running well mate!

 

I think with this bridge it is designed to pay for itself as they are having some sort of enery powered system that is run by the tide on the bridge thats how they are justifing it.
As for the morecambe car club never heard of it mate sorry but will check out the link

 

That's it innit mate, theres no decent garages round this area that I would trust with anything other than minor repairs for MOT etc

I was passenger in my mates Clio Cup so couldn't really flash you or whatever LOL Don't have my Cossie anymore either as of about a month ago so if someone in a Shitroen Volcane TD flashed/beeped ya you'd have wondered who the fuck it was

 

problerbly would have wondered mate but hey I still would have waved back

But yeh your right about the lack of decent garages as I was without my car for a couple of months because roosecoat decided to play football with my mass air flow sensor and re fit it but I couldnt prove that of course the Bstards

Just glad MSD sorted it out for me as I would have been fooked because the car just ran like shite

 

Forgot to mention they said they did'nt touch the cams at roosecoat yet the verniers where a country mile out

 

They didnt have the cambelt off to do a headgasket?

Impressive Technique!!

 

Lol think they just said any old shite to get out of doing one big fook up as I even payed extra for the cam belt kit muppets, thats why as soon as he told me "to change my plugs & leads that'll will sort the problem of my car running shite before it costs me any more money" alarm bells rang louder than ever so fooked him off and you know the rest