text:
Not-so-new news

Keep traffic away from schools

March 5th 2018: Most parents know schools and polluting traffic should be kept apart. A new opinion study (for Client Earth campaigning lawyers) shows 60% of parents nationally support traffic being diverted away from school gates at the beginning and the end of the day. Here in Stockport, most councillors want the exact opposite: they are supporting the plan for the A6-M60 Bypass – including a dual carriageway and major junction to be built right next to Dial Park Primary School, Offerton (as pictured). We should be shouting about this shameful plan. It makes Stockport look like it is stuck in the 1970s when people thought pollution was healthy.

Late to tell us!

February 25th 2018: The official story about the unfinished A6-to-Airport Road is only half the truth. Last April Stockport Council admitted that the road would be finished late – this spring rather than last autumn, as originally planned. By July last year the Council’s road team knew the timetable was slipping further. A programme of work updated on 21st July last year EIGHT MONTHS AGO indicated the job would finish on 28th August this year, not this spring. Ideas of clawing back lost time got nowhere. Meanwhile the incorrect official message was unchanged: that the road would be finished this spring. Even the main funder, the Department for Transport, was told the same. Finally a week ago Stockport Council announced that completion would be “late summer 2018”. Can we trust the Council’s road-building team about either the unfinished Airport Road or the proposed A6-M60 Bypass? (Souce: Airport Road Programme Board minutes. Picture: Airport Road)

Complaints about flooding

February 25th 2018: Residents are complaining of flooding caused by the unfinished Airport Road at its Hazel Grove end. The latest Stockport Express says that houses as well as gardens have been under water. Stockport Council insists it’s all just a coincidence but the residents say that road building has changed the water table. This will add to concerns that something similar could happen if the A6-M60 Bypass is built through the Poise Brook flood plain around Bean Leach Road. The Council and its experts were surprised by waterlogging that has contributed to delays to work on the Airport Road. Can we trust any claims they make that the A6-M60 Bypass won’t escalate flooding?

Paying for the overrun

February 25th 2018: Who will pay for the delays in finishing the A6-Airport Road shambles? Work will go on until the end of next August at least – a 33% overrun. Last December’s meeting of the Project Board was told that Stockport Council and the builders were discussing “pain share” – splitting the costs of the overrun on the road-builders’ contract. We’ll be paying – as either local or national taxpayers. We should be told what’s happening. (Picture of Airport Road last spring.) NOTE: This item has been re-edited. ‘Pain share’ is complicated as well as unpleasant.

Airport road rail west smaller

Queen Elizabeth Way?!

February 25th 2018: Stockport Council officials want the flood-hit and troubled Airport Road to be titled “Queen Elizabeth Way”. That isn’t a good and respectful way of celebrating Her Majesty! It is a disturbing thought that the royal name might also be applied to the road’s proposed extension (as the A6-M60 Bypass) as it destroys the Lower Goyt Valley, ancient woodland and Offerton and Torkington’s green space. Manchester City Council and Cheshire East, who are partners in the Airport Road, have been slow to endorse the idea which would need approval from the Palace. (Source: Airport Road Programme Board minutes. )

Junction 25 design flaws

February 25th 2018: The A6-M60 Bypass plan breaches standards for sight and stopping distance at crazy Junction 25. The plan involves switching the current weird positions of the northbound M60 and slip road so that the slip road joins the M60 from the side rather than the middle. You can understand why the Bypass designers might want to do that, to cope with much more traffic on the slip road. But moving the slip road leaves drivers on the bend of the M60 having to look through the slip road to see the junction ahead. The slip road is apparently planned to descend from Crookilley Roundabout on piles of earth, as at present. On motorways approaching junctions there should be a sight and stopping distance of 295 metres (we’ve shown it in blue on the extract of the official plans below; we’ve also added captions). A design modification is possible but could create new problems, such as further sharpening the bend of the motorway.

Map J25crop smaller

A year behind!

February 14th 2018:  The opening of the Airport Road has been delayed again – from spring to late summer (ie autumn). The news was disclosed on Stockport Council’s site. The announcement airbrushes the truth by failing to say that the original date for completion was last autumn. Hence the road (full title A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road) has been delayed a year so far. When the previous delay was disclosed last year, rain and poor ground conditions were blamed. Now the collapse of the builders Carillion (partnered with Morgan Sindall) and the potential collapse of part of the existing A555 section are added to the list of calamities. Further rain this winter is also blamed. However, most seriously there is something close to an admission that inadequate investigation of the site prior to construction has played a part. Sloppy work, lack of transparency and delusional belief in road-building are also apparent in preparations for the A6-M60 Bypass. We must stop this fiasco being repeated across the beautiful valleys and green spaces threatened by the Bypass.

Consultation ‘later in the year’

February 14th 2018: The biased public consultation about the Bypass is now “scheduled to take place later in the year”, the Council has said in answer to a question. (Not in February, as originally planned.) The Council said it doesn’t know when the Government will respond to its request for money to pay for the consultation and other Bypass preparations. The Council has already said that the consultation will be about “the principles of the scheme”. So the consultation will ignore the damage the road will inflict on green spaces and local residents, such as people living on either side of the route in Offerton and Bosden Farm (pictured). Strangely, the answer from Stockport Council says nothing about the Major Road Network, which was the subject of the question and only a few weeks ago appeared to be the Council’s new target for getting money for the Bypass (see below).

The cunning plan to get half a million pounds

February 2nd 2018: Stockport Council has a cunning plan to get hold of some Bypass money. The Council’s current application for  £500,000 is targeted at a brand new scheme called the Major Road Network.  This Government scheme is due to start in the summer; under it the Government will provide money to local councils for important local roads, including new bypasses.  The full cost of the A6-M60 Bypass (almost half a billion!) is so much that it needs a special decision by the Government, but £500,000 from the Major Road Network is a feasible first step – though a bit slower than the Council’s previously stated hopes of being given the money last month. Let’s do all we can to stop this waste of public money.

Application tries to bypass the facts

February 2nd 2018: We’ve seen Stockport Council’s application to the Government for £500,000 for the next bit of Bypass preparation. The A6-M60 Bypass is such an expensive waste of money that the application tries to tweak the facts : 1. No mention of the eventual cost of building the road – almost half a BILLION pounds. 2. The Bypass’s length is given as 10 kilometres of dual carriageway when, in fact, it would be 8.5 kilometres of dual carriageway plus 1.1 kilometres of the single-carriageway Stepping Hill Link. 3. The Council says the Bypass is still needed although non-road transport improvements have been carried out as proposed by the 2001 SEMMMS report. Have they really? Scrap the Bypass now!

Government considering funding request

January 28th 2018: The clock is now ticking. From London comes news that two weeks ago Stockport Council asked the Government for £500,000 to pay for the next stage of preparations for the A6-M60 Bypass. The Government’s Department for Transport says it is considering the request. We don’t know how long it will take for Ministers to make a decision or how we’ll find out the result. The next stage of Bypass preparations could end with a decision to build the Bypass. Sometime soon we may once again need to stand up for our wonderful green spaces.

A555 section to close for 17 weeks

January 27th 2018: The A6-Airport road has been beset by troubles. It’s running seven months late because of ‘poor ground conditions’. The builder Carillion has gone bust leaving its partner Morgan Sindall to pick up the pieces. And now the bit of the road completed back in the 1990s is crumbling. The westbound section between the A34 and Wilmslow Road is at risk of collapse because of drainage problems. Excavations five metres deep are required to fix the problem, so the section of road will be closed for 17 weeks. This may mean it’s open again just in time for completion of the whole road in June, if that isn’t delayed again. It’s amazing how the officials, consultants and politicians behind roads like the Airport Road and its proposed A6-M60 extension claim to know what they’re doing – and some people even believe them!

Be prepared

January 24th 2018: Our meeting yesterday decided we need to get ready for the Bypass “public consultation” whenever it comes. We will prepare new leaflets and plan how we can get the word out via the internet. Also we will be inviting people to walk the Bypass route together, as we did last spring (see picture). The Council’s transport officials had planned to stage the “public consultation” next month, but it has been postponed until some money comes through from the Government. Mid May could be the next target date. On past form, the consultation is likely to feature biased information in favour of the Bypass and ignore the case against it.

Council chasing £500,000

January 20th 2018: Thanks to all who supported our questions at the Council’s Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.  We had a question for the full council meeting on Thursday too. Council officials are actively trying to get £500,000 out of the Government’s Department for Transport to continue their preparations for the A6-M60 Bypass. However, the Council’s proposed public consultation about the Bypass will not now be going ahead in early February, because the Government hasn’t had opportunity or time to grant any more money, yet. The Council’s default mode is to deny messing things up, so it refuses to accept that its timetable for getting funding was wrong or misleading. Let’s be happy that the Council’s plans to apply for money are behind schedule, but they are still trying to push ahead with the Bypass and threaten our green spaces.

Learn from Carillion’s collapse

January 15th 2018: Carillion, the firm building Stockport’s Airport Road, is to be liquidated. What this means for Carillion’s many projects, is as yet unclear. Carillion has been pulled under by expensive contract overruns which result from “optimism bias” and delusions associated with projects like the Airport Road (pictured above). Such delusions also characterise the A6-M60 Bypass project, even though it’s still on the drawing board.

The Airport Road (A6-M56) was due to open last autumn, but this was put back to June 2018 because of “poor ground conditions”. The ground conditions were caused by rain (so unexpected!) as well as other unspecified causes – likely to be the result of inadequate surveying or examination of the route before construction begun.

This sorry tale ought to encourage a change of approach at Stockport Town Hall about the planned A6-M60 Bypass but will it? Wrong information has been given to councillors and awkward information has been kept out of sight.

Later news: Responsibility for completing the Airport Road will pass to Morgan Sindall building firm. They were in a joint venture with Carillion to build the road and are now “the last man standing”.

Getting ahead in Whitehall

January 5th 2018: The Government’s Department for Transport has received a briefing document from Goyt Valley SOS! We got in ahead of the Councill’s funding application for the next stage of developing the A6-M60 Bypass. Our message to the Government: don’t waste any more public money on this scheme which will destroy precious green belt to build a road that won’t work! (Picture: looking across the Goyt from the west.)

Restoring the bridleway

January 4th 2018: Work is under way to repair last summer’s failed resurfacing of the bridleway along Stockport’s Goyt Valley (see picture). So far a Council digger has removed the top two inches of mud and puddles from the section between Bredbury Hall and Barlow’s Farm. The digger driver is now starting on the worst section, between Barlow’s and Goyt Hall.

This operation may not solve the whole problem. Some of the damage to the surface approaching Goyt Hall goes deeper than two inches (inset). Also the lack of drainage on loose surfaces like this leads to pot holes, the beginnings of which can be seen in the repaired section.

The removal of the top two inches lowers the surface below the kerbs installed last summer. This may hinder run-off of rain water. Last summer’s new surface was above the kerbs, allowing the rain to drain off to the sides in theory, though not in reality.
However, the good news is that when the current work is completed, people will once again be able to enjoy the valley and see what would be lost if the A6-M60 Bypass is built.

P1040564 digger crop sbf

‘New roads don’t reduce congestion’

December 23rd 2017: Stockport Express is continuing to provide good coverage of the case against the A6-M60 Bypass. In the Christmas edition, a letter from Deborah Hind gets star billing. She points out that there is “a wealth of evidence collected over many years throughout the world that new roads do not reduce congestion, but actually encourage more people to drive”. Deborah adds “The trouble is that some councillors are not sharing this with their constituents and instead allow them to beliwve that once the valleys have been destroyed and their green spaces are gone, they will be free of congestion.”

Cabinet votes 5–3 for next Bypass stage

December 20th 2017: The Council’s Cabinet voted by five to three on 19th December to ask the Government for £500,000 to fund the next stage of development of the A6-M60 Bypass. The vote confirmed the recommendation of last month’s full Council meeting. Councillor Sheila Bailey made an awesome speech against the recommendation, with Councillor David Sedgwick backing her up. If the Government grants the request for £500,000, a new business case will be thrown together to hit a June deadline. The new business case would be used to apply for most of the £500 million needed to build the Bypass. Earlier, there were five public questions from opponents of the Bypass. Despite the questions, we are none the wiser about the public consultation that will take place if the first tranche of money (£500,000) is granted. Before the meeting started, defenders of south-east Stockport’s green spaces gathered with banners outside Fred Perry House, where the meeting was held – see picture. We will be opposing this all the way!

December 19 web

An alternative route?

December 17th 2017: Something that looks strangely like an alternative route appears in the Bypass Business Case. On page 243 of Appendices 5 to 9 is a map showing screen lines for traffic forecasts. It incidentally shows the Bypass following an alternative route – avoiding Offerton by skirting Marple and going through Stockport Golf Club, as did a map of the Bypass on display at the SEMMMS Refresh events. Such a route would utterly destroy the Lower Goyt Valley and bring extra traffic into Stockport, so it is not an acceptable alternative. The Bypass should be scrapped. LATER NEWS: This item has been re-edited since publication. It remains unclear why the wrong route was featured in the map on page 243. The people responsible say it was “illustrative”, which presumably is a plea of carelessness.

Offerton avoidance 3

Queuing to double with Bypass

December 17th 2017: Fifteen years after the opening of the A6-M60 Bypass, so-called “permanent queuing” will have doubled, according to the Business Case appendices. You say: “but I thought the Bypass was meant to cure Stockport’s congestion.” True. That’s probably why they’ve saved this forecast for page 240 of Appendices 5-9. Permanent queuing is a queue at traffic signals that takes more than one cycle of lights to clear. The forecast says permanent queuing would be somewhat worse if the bypass wasn’t built than if it was. However, the forecast ignores the extra traffic that would be generated by the Bypass itself, so it is could well be underestimating the amount of congestion if the Bypass was built! The Business Case’s traffic forecasting is flawed and unreliable, but one thing is clear: the greenbelt-destroying Bypass has no answer to congestion in Stockport. Another solution will have to be found. Please join us for questions to councillors at 5.30 next Tuesday (19th December) at Fred Perry House next to the Town Hall, Edward Street.

crackers 2 crop smaller

At the Town Hall, November

December 1st 2017: Thank you to all the many who came to support our green spaces yesterday evening at the Town Hall and cheer the presentation of our 7,061-signature petition. In the picture , Councillors Sheila Bailey and Philip Harding join us outside the Town Hall before the meeting started. It’s no good beating about the bush: the Council voted by 43 votes to 14 to move to the next pre-construction stage of developing the Bypass – a full outline business case. But, perhaps even more disturbing than the vote itself, is the fact that many of the councillors voting to move forward with the Bypass would deny having done so. They would, instead, say that they had merely voted for further investigation. This seems to be far from what they are going to get. Independent councillor Patrick McAuley shone some light on this by drawing on his time when he was on the Council Executive. In business cases and similar situations, he said, councillors were either being told what they wanted to hear or what officials and report-writers wanted them to hear. Councillor McAuley said he had moved from pro- to anti- the Bypass. Councillors Sheila Bailey, in particular, Richard Coaton and John Taylor were prominent among others speaking against moving forward with the Bypass. The decision now moves back to the Council Cabinet meeting on December 19th for confirmation. What happens next? The Council must apply to the Government for money to fund the “investigation”/business case. There is the consoling thought that the Government has already refused this funding application once, last year.

P1040476 smaller

At the Town Hall, October

October 26th 2017: We attended the full Council meeting to show our opposition to the Bypass Business Case and to ask questions. The Council leader, Alex Ganotis, told us the Council’s Cabinet was still working through the Business Case in advance of their meeting on 14th November at which they will give their response. He mentioned the possibility of a public consultation on the Business Case. We also questioned Councillors Lisa Smart, Wendy Meikle and Kenny Blair. Councillor Meikle, who represents Offerton, said she was undecided about the Bypass while Councillors Smart (for Bredbury Green and Romiley) and Blair (Marple South and High Lane) reiterated their support for it. The councillors’ wards all include areas that would be badly impacted by the A6-M60 Bypass.

Stockport Express

October 11th 2017: “Angry residents have held a meeting to discuss how to stop a major bypass potentially being built through countryside on their doorstep,” reported this week’s Stockport Express. The paper was catching up on the recent meeting hosted by Goyt Valley SOS! in Offerton Community Centre. Many local residents have been unaware that the A6-M60 Bypass would go near their homes in Offerton if it follows the current plan. If you’re concerned about the Bypass, you can email the Council Leader, Alex Ganotis, and other councillors (see and sign our petition at

stocport express

Questions to the Cabinet

October 3rd 2017: Thanks to all who came to the Council’s Cabinet meeting on Tuesday October 3rd to show top councillors that people care about the devastation of our green spaces by the proposed A6-M60 Bypass. Ten-year-old Chloe surprised the councillors by asking a question about the threat to her school – Dial Park Primary. Our other questions protested that Offerton had been left in the dark and asked how people would be able to comment on the forthcoming Bypass Business Case.

The off-its-trolley Sainsbury’s road

September 27th, 2017: The planned link road from the A6-M60 Bypass to the A6 at Sainsbury’s is a little bit of road with big problems. As conceived in 2003, this would be single carriageway to carry around 10,000 vehicles a day. It would be sandwiched between Talbot Street and Alfreton Road. In our map (taken from the 2006 plans), mounds of waste earth (or “bunds”) line most of the road but won’t much reduce the damage for its neighbours. The link road would have congestion built-in at both ends. The 2006 plan gave it a traffic light junction with the Bypass – which would be a rush hour snarl-up. Down by Sainsbury’s the link road would get all mixed up with cars driving into Sainsbury’s. Surely traffic lights would be needed here, just a few metres away from the traffic lights on the A6 which would be another snarl-up? Bramhall Moor Lane on the other side of the junction cannot cope with its existing traffic, so imagine what it would be like as a feeder to the link road. Because of the extra traffic drawn to the link road, the A6 would become more congested around the junction than it is today with raised and unlawful levels of pollution.

Map 2006 Stepping Hill link smaller

Offerton needs to know

September 27th, 2017: We had a good meeting in Offerton Community Centre on Tuesday. There were two main conclusions: 1. A6-M60 Bypass plans will be very bad for Offerton, Bosden Farm and Foggbrook; but 2. people don’t know what’s happening. Many of those most affected are still completely in the dark. We resolved to try to make up for the Council’s refusal to inform people. We will be giving out more leaflets in Offerton and asking residents to sign our petition or to get in touch with the Council in other ways. With decisions by the Council only weeks away, there’s no time to lose. Please support our petition at

Still kept in the dark

September 19, 2017: We had a good discussion at our Goyt Valley SOS! meeting in the Queens, Bents Lane yesterday – with AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” playing in the background. One issue we talked about was the scandal of people living close to the A6-M60 Bypass route never having been given any information about the plans and how they would be affected. People are even now buying homes in places right next to the route such as Minsmere Walks and Torkington Manor without being warned that they could be living next door to a dual carriageway. How can those responsible justify keeping people in the dark? Please support our petition at

Why’s the Business Case late?

September 14, 2017: The Business Case for the A6-M60 Bypass has been delayed yet again. It was originally due to appear last March, but then postponed until this week. Now it may make its appearance on October 26. This supposedly short project will overrun by (at least) seven months. The contractors working on the Business Case have clearly been struggling over something but the Council won’t say what. At the heart of any road-building business case is traffic modelling which may not always be as free from human intervention as people like Stockport Council would like you to believe. Unless the modelling figures come out right, the Council will be unable to get money from the Government to build their green belt-destroying, traffic generating road. Long may the contractors struggle over their figures! Please support our meeting next Monday (the 18th)  in the Queens, Bents Lane at 7pm.

Full-on ‘consultation’

September 14, 2017: The Goyt Valley SOS! display (below) was a popular place at the Council’s consultation in Bredbury at Werneth School. The display featured pictures of the devastating effect the A6-M60-Bypass would have on the Lower Goyt Valley. The top picture shows Debbie during a vigorous discussion with big Bypass supporter Cllr Lisa Smart. In the lower picture, planning officers move in to tell Debbie to close the stall down. Big mistake! Saturday 16th September from 10am to 12.30pm at St Michaels Church Hall, St Michaels Avenue, Stockport, SK7 2PG (Bramhall/Cheadle Hulme); Monday 25th September From 6pm to 8.30pm at Hazel Grove Civic Hall, London Road, Stockport, SK7 4DF; Thursday 28th September From 6pm to 8.30pm at Kingsway School, Foxland Road, Stockport, SK8 4QX (Cheadle).

P1040302 crop smaller

Consulting with SEMMMS

September 5, 2017: It’s time for us to take a stand – in this case a DIY display stand – at the Council’s “consultation” on the A6-M60 Bypass (below).  The Council doesn’t like anyone else having display stands at their events but they had to put up with it at the event in St Mary’s Church in the centre of Stockport.  The stand shows pictures of what the Bypass would do to the precious green spaces of Goyt Valley and Offerton. People need to see this! At yesterday evening’s other “consultation” in Marple, our display stand didn’t fare so well under pressure from the Director of Planning and cohort.  Rest assured, we’ll be back – next Wednesday 13th September from 6pm at Werneth School, Harrytown, Stockport, SK6 3BX and Life Leisure, Houldsworth Village, Broadstone Road, Stockport, SK5 7AT. More about the “Refresh”.

Consultation smaller

Tracking the Bypass

August 19, 2017: We tracked the Bypass through Offerton on Sunday 13th August. Offerton and Bosden Farm Estates and the top of Hazel Grove will be the communities hit most severely overall by the A6-M60 Bypass. Our walk showed us that very little of the green spaces there will survive. A beautiful stretch of fields and a small wood will be lost to residents and to Stockport. The Bypass will go close to homes and to Dial Park Primary School. See the map of what the Bypass will do to Offerton.

Offerton’s vista in danger

August 2, 2017: The magnificent panorama pictured would be blocked by a mound of grassed road-building spoil if the A6-M60 Bypass were built. The picture looks down from Alfreton to Bean Leach Road, reversing the view in our previous post. It’s not quite as far as it looks. From the fence to the low trees and shrubs would be filled with the spoil mound (according to 2006 plans that may be revised). The long mound with spirit-levelled top would block sight of drainage tanks, four busy lanes of traffic and the junction with the link road to Sainsbury’s A6 in the fields beyond – and everything else as well! It would be better to stop the Bypass with all its extra polluting traffic, and keep the vista. Please spread our petition at

Alfreton field 2 smaller

Dirty air tricks

July 31, 2017:

Cheshire East Council staff has been exposed for falsifying roadside air quality data that may have affected planning decisions of various types. This worrying news is not a total surprise, since East Cheshire was already known for another piece of malpractice – sitting on terrible pollution readings for Disley.  The Disley readings, if disclosed, might have produced a different result at the public inquiry in 2014 into Stockport Council’s Airport Road. When the Airport Road opens, it will draw traffic up the A6 through Disley and High Lane, further worsening pollution there. Stockport’s A6-M60 Bypass proposal does not involve East Cheshire Council, but that doesn’t mean we’re safe from manipulation. The Cheshire East revelations are a warning to us not to sit back and expect fair play from the Bypass Business Case, when it comes out in September.

Hills of roadside waste

July 26th, 2017: If the A6-M60 Bypass is allowed to be built, its footprint will be much wider than the dual carriageway itself. Much of the extra land will be taken to accommodate mini hills of waste soil. Although these flat-top hills are claimed to shield local residents, they are really cost-saving greenbelt destroyers. The Airport Road, now being built, shows how mini-hills are used. Nine hills have already been built but now another eleven are to be added because of a massive over-production of waste.  That’s more than double what was planned! The Airport Road is expected to be completed seven months late, not surprisingly.  The road-building experts know less than they claim – a point to remember when the A6-M60 Bypass Business Case is unveiled in the autumn.

The route to traffic chaos

July 23rd, 2017: Tomorrow the A6 will close for up to 12 weeks in the centre of Stockport for essential repairs to the long bridge over the Mersey. The effect on traffic is bound to be severe! But before any drivers suffering extra delays around Stockport start calling out for bypasses, it would be worth thinking about the chaos that would be produced if the A6-M60 Bypass were to go ahead. The two jobs causing most trauma would be the rebuilding of M60 Junction 25 to accommodate three lanes entering it eastbound and the remodelling of Crookilley Way roundabout to unsuccessfully cope with around 40,000 extra vehicles daily (based on 2004 data). That really would be prolonged (and pointless) traffic paralysis.

Jim Fearnley to disappear in 2022?

July 12th, 2017: Council officers have told us this week that the Jim Fearnley Bridge has an estimated remaining life of five years. This is a disturbing footnote to our celebration of the Poise Brook Valley and the bridge last Sunday. The bridge isn’t a permanent structure and will, sooner or later, have to be either replaced or just removed. There are three reasons why the Council may not want to keep a bridge between the Goyt and Poise Brook Valleys: 1. Money is short. 2. A bridge will be opened in 2019 near Pear Mill for the new cycle way. 3 Senior Council officials intend to ruin the Poise Brook Valley with the A6-M60 Bypass. If we want to keep Jim Fearnley Bridge, we will have to speak up for it.

Celebrating Poise Brook Valley

July 9th, 2017: Our Poise Brook Valley Day celebration today took us through the Goyt Valley looking its best in the sunshine – apart from the bridleway itself which is messy while surfacing work continues. Our event was part of Fields In Trust’s Have A Field Day national activity. The King George V Cup pooh sticks race (named after the founder of Fields In Trust) was contested from Jim Fearnley Bridge. When we reached Poise Brook Valley itself, Fossil Creek lived up to its name (fern fossils pictured today). Our walk continued into the valley to the little footbridge over the brook.  It was a great day to appreciate Stockport’s good fortune in having the two beautiful valleys and the bridge linking them.  Let’s hang on to them.

The next big election is in Offerton

June 26th, 2017: Forget the general election, the next big vote will be taking place in Offerton. Because Stockport Council is on a knife-edge between Labour and the Lib-Dems, any closely fought ward can make the difference – and nowhere more so than Offerton. Campaigning is already under way for the next Offerton vote – though it will not be until May 2018! The candidates’ enthusiasm is impressive but they are being strangely shy on one of the biggest issues facing Offerton. What do the candidates think about the proposed A6-M60 Bypass which will devastate the heart of the ward? Over to you, candidates.

Safety has become important

June 26th, 2017: “Health ‘n’ safety” is no longer just for wimps following the tragic Grenfell Tower inferno. This year there has been increasing concern across the UK about hundreds of schools and nurseries within 150 metres of major polluting roads. Sorting out the existing problem will be a huge task, but surely we shouldn’t be putting more schools and busy roads next to each other – as will happen if the A6-M60 Bypass is built is built next to Dial Park three-school site in Offerton (picture) and the Overdale Centre, Romiley. Air pollution can affect children’s lung and brain development, according to research. There is no safe level but a 150-metre red line is a start.

What the Business Case will ignore

June 26th, 2017: Some confusion has been created – deliberately! Are we waiting for a “feasibility study” (stage 2) for the A6-M60 Bypass or a Business Case? The answer is that in 2015 the Business Case was officially named a “feasibility study” so it would sound fairer and more thorough than it really is. The Business Case’s purpose is simply to get the Council to build the road and get the Government to fund it. The Business Case will use traffic modelling to attempt to show that the Bypass will cure traffic problems rather than create new ones. That’s a bit unlikely in the real world, but modelling can be guided to produce the required answers. But what about all the other problems with the Bypass? The Business Case will say little about pollution, flooding, dodgy geology, lost green spaces, wildlife and heritage. These will only be looked at once the Business Case has been approved – and then only to check that all legal requirements are covered. The Business Case is biased, by design. Please don’t trust it when it appears in September.

Geology Report remains buried deep

June 18th, 2017: At the cabinet meeting of leading Stockport councillors last Tuesday, we yet again asked about the missing geological report of 2005 covering the A6-M60 Bypass. Once again we urged the Council to ask the authors for a copy. At the previous Cabinet meeting we had been told the company that wrote the report no longer existed. We subsequently pointed out by letter that the authors definitely existed and even had the same Altrincham phone number but now used the name of their parent company (Aecom). The Council then countered that Aecom were not the contracted authors. And finally on Tuesday a new line: they are not approaching Aecom because the report is out of date – ie a twelve-year-old report dealing with, among other geological issues, the 300-million-years-old Red Rock Fault! It may be that some technology has changed since 2005 but this series of evasions gives cause to distrust any statement from the Council concerning the Bypass. It is the people responsible for transport in the Council who have taken this decision. It is a shame that it tarnishes the whole Council which, of course, contains many excellent people.

Business Case to be four months late

June 18th, 2017: Last Tuesday we asked the Council’s Cabinet about what’s happened to the A6-M60 Bypass Business Case. The answer given was that it’s “still in progress”. The Business Case had been due to appear in Spring 2017. It is now expected on 14th September. The Business Case will be mainly about traffic and economic issues – with very little about the environment, pollution, loss of green space from Bredbury to Torkington, or the effect on people living nearby. It’s possible that the traffic modelling didn’t come out right to justify the £600 million cost or some other aspect undermined the case and had to be fixed, hence the delay. In the absence of explanations, we are left to speculate. A delay’s not good enough – we need to stop this destructive road plan completely!

Questioning Council leaders

June 10th, 2017: We are going to the Stockport Council Cabinet meeting on Tuesday (13th June) at 6pm with three questions about the A6-M60 Bypass: 1. Why are the Council still refusing to ask the authors of the 2005 geological report for a copy since the Council have lost/destroyed their own copies? 2. Will Greater Manchester’s new “environment czar” (Stockport Council Leader Alex Ganotis) join us in the Bypass-threatened Poise Brook Valley for an event as part of the July 8th national day of activity to protect green spaces? 3. Please, please tell us when you finally intend to publish the Outline Business Case for the polluting, green-space-destroying Bypass so that we can pull it apart? (After the questions we’ll be going on to the Goyt Valley SOS meeting at the Cow & Calf, 7.15pm.)

Waiting for the Business Case

May 31st, 2017: A Business Case for the A6-M60 Bypass was due to appear in “Spring 2017” setting out why and how the green spaces of Torkington, Offerton, Romiley and Lower Bredbury are to be trashed. The document (also known as the Feasibility Study Stage 2) remains under wraps. Stockport Council has not explained the delay. The hold-up could be due to the dubious official practice of keeping controversial plans away from the public during general elections, but this has not been stated. The next possible date for the Business Case to appear is June 30th when the agenda for the next meeting of the Council’s Economy & Regeneration Scrutiny Committee will be published. The meeting itself is on Thursday July 6th. Is the Business Case such rubbish that the Council is embarrassed to let anyone see it? Are its traffic modelling figures being hastily reworked? Why can’t the Council just tell the public what’s happening?

Our Bluebell Walk in the press

May 17, 2017: Our Bluebell Walk and campaign are in this week’s Stockport Express. The helpful article highlights the threat of a high-level bridge across Stockport’s Goyt Valley. The Stockport Council spokesperson quoted gives nothing away about when the forthcoming Business Case for the A6-M60 Bypass will be published. The article was illustrated by a photo of the Bluebell Walkers similar to the brilliant picture at the top of this page. The picture shown here of walkers passing bluebells in Goyt Valley woods is also nice (thanks to photographer Jack Wrigley).

Goyt Valley SOS Bluebell Walk woods fbk

The burying of the geological report

May 11, 2017: Attempts to block access to a geological report became almost laughable at the April meeting of the Council’s Executive.

The A6-M60 Bypass would include a tunnel running along the Red Rock Fault through Lower Bredbury (see picture) as well as potential problems from a gravel pit and unmarked mine workings. So a geological report would surely be useful.

A Geo-environmental Interpetative Report covering both the Airport Road and A6-M60 Bypass was produced in 2005. Goyt Valley SOS first asked for this in 2015. We were told it was “not available”. “Destruction of files” was mentioned – i.e. it had apparently been thrown away!

Trying a different tack, in April 2017 we asked the Council Executive to request a copy of the report from the consultants who wrote it. The Executive responded that the company “no longer exists”. This is amazingly and blatantly untrue. The report was by Faber Maunsell, who were set up in 2001 by the US firm Aecom. In 2009 Faber Maunsell became Aecom Europe. They kept the same telephone number in Altrincham. The Council used Aecom for further reports for the Airport Road in 2011 and 2013. The Council know they exist.

The councillors on the Executive cannot be blamed for giving a misleading answer because they were fed wrong information by officers. However, councillors of all parties need to start questioning what they are being told about the Bypass.

After we complained to the Executive, Council staff are again supposed to be looking for the report. Meanwhile the question remains: why are some SMBC staff so against people seeing this report?

Jim Fearnley fears remain

April 27, 2017: Our visit to the Council Executive confirmed that we should be worried about the future of the Jim Fearnley footbridge over the Goyt. In answer to Rachel’s question, Councillor Kate Butler said the bridge was not a public right of way – implying the Council was not obliged to repair or replace the ageing structure. Councillor Butler had nothing clear to say about what would happen to the bridge if the disastrous A6-M60 Bypass was to go ahead. But she did significantly refer to the new cycle and foot crossing approved further down river, which we fear could sooner or later be used as an excuse for closing Jim Fearnley. The Councillor said “it is a little bit too early” to determine the future of Jim Fearnley but it would cost “up to £1 million” to replace the present structure (if it is judged unsafe). We need to use this bridge and speak up for it, or lose it.

Questions for the Council Executive

April 22, 2017: Goyt Valley SOS! is going to the Council Executive meeting next Tuesday (25th at 6pm in Fred Perry House) to ask:

  1. Please promise that the Jim Fearnley Bridge will remain where it is and be renovated or rebuilt if that becomes necessary.
  2. Please tell us how the seven-month delay in completion of the A6-to-Airport Relief Road will be paid for.
  3. Please make the 2005 geo-environmental report available to the public. (This is the most recent geological report covering the A6-M60 Bypass; access to it has been refused despite the route going across a gravel pit, mine shafts and the Red Rock fault.)
  4. Please tell us when people can see the Bypass Feasibility Study Stage 2.

The Bypass in the General Election

April 18, 2017: The shock plan for a General Election on June 8 will affect our campaign against the A6-M60 Bypass. Sadly, prominent candidates will be vying to support the Bypass – while also opposing building on the green belt! The Bypass plan was first resuscitated immediately before the 2015 election. It will be difficult but we need to ensure that the case against the Bypass can be heard. Goyt Valley SOS! is strictly non-party political.

Airport Road lags behind

April 18, 2017: Work on the Airport Road (A6-MARR) is to overrun by seven months and finish in June next year, according to Stockport Council. This is relevant to the Council’s plans to build an A6-M60 Bypass in three ways: 1. It shows major road projects are risky. 2. The Council is putting part of the blame for the overrun on “poor ground conditions” – but the geology for the A6-M60 Bypass could be even more challenging. 3. The overrun will mean that realistic traffic modelling for building the Bypass cannot take place until 2019 when the effects of the Airport Road become clear; instead the Council has been relying on modelling already carried out despite the great changes the Airport Road is likely to make to traffic patterns.

The realigned A6 at Hazel Grove is about to open following the erection of massive netting to protect drivers from stray golf balls. The realignment is part of the Airport Road scheme.

The Council has not said who will pay for the Airport Road delay. Rain and flooding, as well as ground conditions, are being blamed. An Outline Business Case for the A6-M60 Bypass is to be published next month. Councillors must then decide whether to push ahead with developing the Bypass and asking the Government to pay £600 million for it.

Jim Fearnley Bridge at risk

April 17 2017: The Jim Fearnley Bridge would be scrapped when a monstrous Bypass bridge is built across the Goyt. The Jim Fearnley Bridge at present provides a peaceful and vehicle-free crossing of the Goyt for walkers and cyclists around 300 metres away from where the Bypass would cross. Clearly, if the A6-M60 Bypass is built, Stockport’s Goyt Valley will cease to be a place to enjoy leisure – and the planned removal of the Jim Fearnley Bridge underlines this fact.

The Bayley-style bridge has a limited structural life, so we should be talking about when and how this much used and loved feature of the valley is rebuilt. The Council seems to have other ideas. The Jim Fearnley Bridge is missing completely from both the 2004 and 2006 plans for the Bypass. This is all the more disturbing because, generally, the Bypass plans overlay the existing map, whose features such as paths remain visible. It is as if the Jim Fearnley Bridge has already been air-brushed from history.

In the extract below from the 2006 plans, we have added dots to show the bridge and path to Alan Newton Way. We have also added labels and coloured the river, brook and two large ponds planned to collect road run-off.

Jim Fearnley 3rd attempt smaller

The threatened valley

April 12 2017: A superb view of the Lower Goyt Valley was snapped by an airline passsenger. We have added the destructive route planned for the A6-M60 Bypass.

Aerial view with road slight crop

An ominous intersection

April 8 2017: The picture below shows where the greenbelt-destroying A6-M60 Bypass would join on to the Airport Road just north of Simpson’s Corner. The advancing Airport Road (coming from the front of the picture) is still mud, but the realignment of the A6 is now so far advanced that there are a line of lamp posts, a sign to Buxton and even a car sitting there last Sunday morning. There will be a T-junction between the realigned A6 and the Airport Road. If the Bypass were to be allowed to smash through the woodland to join the Airport Road, the T-junction would become a cross-roads or more likely a complicated and intrusive roundabout.

Wide mud road leading to back of picture, road junction and woods.

Dark Lane: into the darkness

April 2017: The starting point of our May 7 Bluebell Walk would be devastated by the  the A6-M60 Bypass, according to the recently disclosed 2006 plans. We’ve added some red labels in the plan extract below. The little car park outside the gates of Bredbury Hall where we will meet is on the left. An access for emergency vehicles for tunnel accidents runs across the side of the field next to the stream and the car park. Three reed beds and a pond for road run-off are right next to the Dark Lane/Alan Newton Way bridleway. The run-off drains from there into the stream. The Bypass cuts through Vernon Road Woods Nature Reserve to the mouth of the tunnel, exactly where Vernon Road bridleway is now. This will be an intensely noisy and polluted place. The bridleway is diverted up over the top of the shallow tunnel. Fortyacre Drive and Bancroft Close are nearest to the tunnel hell’s mouth. Fortunately none of this has happened yet and we will do all we can to prevent this nightmare. Please join our walk through the still beautiful Lower Goyt Valley at 2.15 on Sunday May 7 from the gates of Bredbury Hall, SK6 2DH.

Bypass map for Dark Lane at gates of Bredbury Hall

Seven old woods would be ruined

April 2017: Study of two tythe maps from the 1840s has revealed that the A6-M60 Bypass (as planned in 2006) would ruin seven old woods shown on the maps. Not surprisingly the wonderful Poise Brook Valley Woods is one. The other six old woods are smaller, but still precious – especially because of their closeness to urban areas. Among the casualties would be two small woods above Goyt Hall Farm, which are shown on the tythe map of 1841 looking much the same as on a modern satellite photo (in the images below I have coloured the woods and removed a distracting page fold). The Bypass would hit them full on. Road-builders are supposed to try to avoid ancient woodland, which is defined as more than 400 years old. All seven woods might be that old but so far the case is only proven for Poise Brook Valley and Crookilley Woods – and both remain on the Bypass route despite the supposed protection! We need all these patches of wildness that have survived in valleys and along streams for centuries.

Woods in 1841 map and recent satellite image.

Dodge home in danger?

March 2017: The blunders and alarming assertions from the A6-M60 Bypass feasibility consultants just keep on coming. This one comes from the just-published appendices to the Feasibility Study Stage 1. In some maps tucked away at the back of the document the Bypass is shown going right through the historic Halliday Hill farm house (former ancestral home of the Dodge family).

This error is all the more amazing because the public inquiry of 1988 ordered the road rerouted away from the farm house. The new maps are dated June 2016. So how come they include a route abandoned for almost 30 years?

The maps in question show various protected historical and environmental features that the Bypass should try to avoid. The map for listed buildings shows the Bypass scoring a direct hit on Halliday Hill farm house. Another map showing the Bypass in relation to Poise Brook Valley woods also endangers the farm house.

So is it a mistake by a work experience student or a deliberate change to the route, involving the demolition of an important part of Stockport’s heritage?

2006 plans surface in 2017

Dealing with Stockport MBC’s s road-building arm can be a maddening business even before they let loose their bulldozers.   Last  spring we submitted a Freedom of Information request “Please would you provide the most recent plans available for the 1.Relief Road from east of A627 Offerton Road to A6/A6MARR junction 2. The Stepping Hill link. I appreciate the latest plans could be from 2004.” The “most recent plans” they sent on 22 April last year were indeed from 2004. We now know that they should have sent the much more detailed and updated 2006 plans that have just been disclosed in the Bypass A6-M60 Feasibility Study Stage 1 Appendices. If they had done so, we would have known, for instance, that the threat to reroute Marple Road through Foggbrook Close had been lifted ten years ago – which would have been useful for the people living there! The Appendices have just been reluctantly published by SMBC. Why not be more open – this caginess just makes it seem like SMBC road planners have got some big horrible secret. The 2006 plans are on page 38 onwards of the Appendices. The imminent Feasibility Study Stage Stage 2 will include 2017 plans.

Response delivered to the biased ‘Study’

Today the Goyt Valley SOS! response to the Bypass Feasibility Study Stage 1 was delivered to each of the 63 Stockport councillors. It’s quite long and detailed but the basic message is that the Study “is a sub-standard piece of work making troubling proposals and inaccurate statements” and “councillors ought to be concerned that the same contractors (WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff) are producing the Stage 2 Study”.

One of the most troubling proposals is the “high-level bridge” option across Stockport’s wonderful Lower Goyt Valley, but the Stage 1 Study also makes a case for the road as effectively part of the strategic road network, rather than the “local bypass” previously planned. This would make it all the more likely that the Bypass would sooner or later seize up.  Maybe more of the councillors will now start to realise what ruinous rubbish the A6-M60 Bypass plan is.  Read our analysis.

Mr Ganotis – please just stop!

When Labour’s Alex Ganotis, Stockport council’s leader, took office last year he promised to review the A6-M60 Bypass plan (good!), but two months later SMBC applied for Government funding for more preparation work beyond the current Feasibility Study. This could mean that the promised review isn’t serious – although the Council told us that the funding bid was just in case the decision is to push ahead. At the Council meeting in January, Mr Ganotis strongly implied that the work would carry on, although the review still hasn’t taken place. But there’s a hitch – SMBC must reapply for the funding, having failed to obtain it in the current bidding round. What an opportunity for Mr Ganotis to put an end to the whole miserable saga and to challenge the Lib-Dem and Tory groups to back him. Otherwise everywhere close to the route will be blighted for years, the Council will continue to waste its efforts, and the Bypass will continue to be a real danger. Mr Ganotis: please just stop it.

MP bungles plea for Bypass cash

Hazel Grove’s MP William Wragg made two startling errors while pleading in the Commons on Thursday for money for the nightmare A6-M60 Bypass.

He said the Bypass was needed because, among other reasons, traffic using the A6 is “predicted to increase” after the Airport Road is completed! This is true for traffic coming up the A6 through High Lane to get to the Airport Road but the Bypass could make this worse – whereas the longer stretch of the A6 from Hazel Grove northwards is supposed to be made better by the Airport Road. Otherwise, why is the Airport Road being built? It is amazing that Mr Wragg should be campaigning for the destructive, dysfunctional Bypass without being clear about such a basic fact.

Mr Wragg also was confused about what he was asking the Government to pay for in the first instance, asking the Government Minister: “Does he support progression to the stage 2 feasibility study?” The study is already funded and about to appear (unfortunately)!

Replying to Mr Wragg, the Government Minister (Andrew Jones) was promising nothing but said the promoters of the road could send him the Bypass Feasibility Study after it was completed (Mr Jones seems to know more than Mr Wragg) and “it will be considered and given a very good hearing”.

Save the Greenbelt groups to rally on April 1

Stockport Council have taken a step back from plans to hand the green belt from High Lane to Heald Green to housing developers. The great Stockport walk on January 14 to stop the draconian housing plans is pictured above. The housing development plans could yet reappear in one form or another. Meanwhile in other parts of Greater Manchester, the grabbing of the green belt goes on. Likewise in Bredbury, Romiley, Offerton, Hazel Grove and Torkington, where the plan to send 60,000 vehicles a day across our green belt is still with us in all its reckless and destructive stupidity. That’s why groups across Greater Manchester are rallying to save the green belt in Albert Square, Manchester on Saturday April 1st at 1pm. Goyt Valley SOS! will be there.

Well attended Marple meeting

On a wet night in Marple on 21st February more than 60 people came to our meeting on the A6-M60 bypass; many names were added to our mailing list. The presentation covered the impact of the Bypass on our green spaces and on people living near the route, and the likelihood of congestion on the bypass and streets leading to it. Many contributed to the discussion that followed, including several who retained the belief that the Bypass would solve Stockport’s traffic problems. Other speakers welcomed the way we had brought the Bypass plans to people’s attention, and the situation of residents of Foggbrook Close was highlighted.

A well-argued contribution pointed out that it was an established fact that new roads generated more traffic. The same speaker noted the authorities’ failure to implement public transport improvements that were supposed to be an essential part of the original 2001 SEMMMS plan alongside new road building. These included new Metro lines to Stockport and Marple, priority bus lanes and improved train frequencies.

Town Hall questions

We went to the Town Hall on 23rd February to ask questions at the Council’s full meeting. All the councillors heard from us about the threat to the Goyt Valley from either official options – a massive cutting and long bridge or a very long high bridge. We also told them of the 27 streets and three schools that would be most severely affected by the Bypass. And we told the council leader that he would have no credibility if he moved ahead with further preparatory work for the scheme while claiming at the same time that he had not yet reached a decision to back it.

What were the results of our Town Hall visit?  Council leader Alex Ganotis said it was the responsibility of councillors to “take seriously the concerns of residents” even if the councillors supported the A6-M60 Bypass and the residents were affected by it. (Reality check: don’t expect councillors of Hazel Grove, Bredbury and Romiley to become suddenly helpful.) And Mr Ganotis admitted that “a significant proportion of people in certain areas of Stockport will not be happy” with him not stopping the bypass now. That’s progress because opponents of the bypass have previously been pigeon-holed as conservationists rather than people living in streets destined to be next to the nightmare road..

Mr Ganotis did said he would meet people from affected communities but, unfortunately, only as part of an official consultation that won’t take place until after a decision to move to the next stage of development. So that’s more like a No than a Yes to ‘public engagement’.

He was unclear how a decision to move ahead would be taken, following publication of the Feasibility Study Stage 2: will it be just based on the Study’s recommendations, since it seems as if other submissions may not wanted at that time? This is worrying since Feasibility Study Stage 1 is slipshod and biased. Disturbingly Mr Ganotis did not rule out the high-level bridge across the Lower Goyt Valley (suggested in Study Stage 1) as a bad joke.


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Type: response

text:
My Account
  • Flynnter Cocktail Table w/Storage
  • PImage

Flynnter Cocktail Table w/Storage

Item# - EN-UNI-T716-20
$799.99 US Dollars

Local store prices and products may vary by location.

VAT included

Sporting a clean-lined, hearty profile and complex chestnut-tone finish, the Flynnter coffee table brings home a richly rustic style that’s warm and welcoming. With five smooth-gliding drawers, this coffee table is packed with functionality. Prominent bun feet add shapely flair and classic charm.
  • Aged pewter-tone knobs
  • Assembly required
  • 5 smooth-gliding drawers
  • Made of veneers, wood and engineered wood
Cocktail Table with Storage
  • Width: 132.08 cm
  • Depth: 71.12 cm
  • Height: 47.96 cm

Complete the Set

warcinfo:
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-30
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-232-173-83.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Space Koupe | Go Fast

Go To Artist Page

Recommended if You Like
Future Rich Homie Quan Young Boy NBA

More Artists From
United States - Georgia

Other Genres You Will Love
Hip-Hop/Rap: G-Funk Hip-Hop/Rap: Southern Style Moods: Mood: Seasonal
Sell your music everywhere
There are no items in your wishlist.

Go Fast

by Space Koupe

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap: G-Funk
Release Date:

We'll ship when it's back in stock

Order now and we'll ship when it's back in stock, or enter your email below to be notified when it's back in stock.
Continue Shopping
available for download only
Share to Google +1

To listen to tracks you will need to update your browser to a recent version.

  Song Share Time Download
1. Go Fast
3:30 $0.99
Downloads are available as MP3-320 files.

Album Notes
Khalil anthony-ray Cooper better known as "Space Koupe Zoom" is the grandson of Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Gene"Shady Grady" Thomas Of the Parliament funkadelics an Original P

to write a review


text:
SPSM-5310, 1-Passage Rotary Union, Rc3/8"-19 BSPT Connections, Aluminum / Stainless Steel

Product Code:
  • SPSM-5310-R.A
Lightweight, compact, single-flow passage rotary union with Rc3/8"-19 BSPT connections and aluminum (housing) / stainless steel (shaft) construction

Availability: -1

Additional Information

Additional Information

Downloads PDF Drawing SPS Series Catalog
Number of Passages 1
Connection Type Rc3/8"-19 BSPT
Max. Pressure 600 PSI [40 BAR]
Max. Speed 500 RPM
Media Type Air/Gas
Material Type Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Diameter 1.750" [44.45 mm
Length 2.630" [66.802 mm]
Min. Torque 12 in-lbs [1.36 Nm]
Product Disclaimer The use of liquid media is not recommended for this product. Please select from one of our other product lines or consult DSTI if your application requires use of liquid media.

Values listed are dependent on a combination of all application parameters. Please note operational life is dependent upon both rotational speed and duty cycle. Contact DSTI if your application requires operating close to the maximum rotational speed with a continuous duty cycle.

Applications with temperatures above 220° F (105° C) require alternative seal materials. Please consult with DSTI regarding your specific application requirements.

Value listed for the minimum torque required to rotate is based on zero pressure with oil/hydraulic media. Required torque to rotate may be greater when using other media types or dry running. For specific torque requirements, please contact DSTI to discuss your application.

The SPSM Series single passage rotary unions are compact, lightweight and corrosion-resistant featuring a stainless steel shaft and aluminum housing. All SPSM Series models come standard with a male threaded shaft and a female threaded housing for easy mounting.

For more information, see SPSM Series 1-Passage Rotary Unions.


text:
Free Delivery for UK Orders
14 Day Money Back Guarantee
Trusted and Secure

Break Clauses 2nd edition

A comprehensive guide that explains everything a property practitioner needs to know in respect of break clauses.

In Stock
ISBN/ISSN: 9781784730345

Product description

Why should you buy Break Clauses

This comprehensive guide explains everything that a property practitioner needs to know in respect of break clauses including:

  • Comparisons between break clauses and other methods of terminating leases
  • How to interpret break clauses and break notices
  • How break clauses relate to other clauses within the lease, e.g. rent review clauses
  • The effect of exercising a break notice on the respective obligations of landlords / tenants / sub-tenants
  • The consequences of there being conditions precedent attached to the exercise of a break clause
  • The formalities and the possible registration requirements of break clauses
  • The procedure for the service of a break notice and the consequences of failing to comply with that procedure
  • The interrelationship between break clauses and the security of tenure procedures under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
  • Issues of professional liability in the context of break clauses
  • Redevelopment break clauses
  • Guidance on break clauses in residential and agricultural tenancies

This new edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded to include coverage of:

  • Latest important decisions such as M&S v BNP Paribas [2015], Siemens v Friends Life (CA) [2014], Avocet [2012], PCE Investors [2012], Gemini Press [2012], Fitzhugh v Fitzhugh [2012], HFI Farnbrough v Park Garage [2012], Canonical v TST Millbank [2012], and Quirkco v Asprey [2012]
  • Further analysis of debate and opinion on topical issues such as the recoverability of 'overpaid' rent following the termination of a lease
  • Extended selection of precedents

It is striking, and to the uninitiated it may be surprising, that an apparently relatively niche topic such as break clauses in leases can provide enough in the way of legal problems and issues to justify a book running to over 300 pages and over 500 reported cases. Many non-lawyers may wonder whether this is a tribute to the ingenuity of lawyers or the ineptitude of those involved in drafting and operating the clauses. However, as any reader of this excellent book will quickly realise, break clauses have thrown up many practical and legal problems, which fully justify the full and careful treatment which this book gives the topic. Read the full foreword...

It is a commonplace with a textbook that the progeny is larger than the forebear. This book is an extreme example of that tendency. Although there have been a large number of cases concerned with aspects of break clauses in the last few years, the blame for the growth lies on the shoulders of the authors, not the judges. Further thoughts, plus readers’ suggestions, have added topics, and even some new chapters. Really, the book has undergone a substantial re-write.

Case-law since the first edition has tended to emphasise the importance of strict compliance with the conditions in a break clause, and the content of the break notice. The many cases dealing with the former are discussed in Chapters 9 and 10. Prominent amongst the cases emphasising the importance of the careful drafting of a break notice is the Court of Appeal decision in Siemens Hearing Instruments Ltd v Friends Life Ltd [2014] 2 P&CR 5. Read the full preface...

Table of contents

  • Foreword to the Second Edition
  • Foreword to the First Edition
  • Authors’ Preface to the Second Edition
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Statutes
  • Table of Statutory Instruments
  • The Nature of a Break Clause
  • Formalities and Registration
  • Assignment
  • Who May Exercise the Break Clause
  • The Form and Content of the Break Notice
  • The Time for Exercise of the Break Clause and Service of the Break Notice
  • The Method of Service of a Break Notice
  • On Whom the Break Notice Should be Served
  • Conditions in a Break Clause: General Principles
  • Particular Conditions in a Tenant’s Break Clause
  • The Recovery of ‘Overpaid’ Rent and Other Sums
  • Redevelopment Break Clauses
  • Invalid Break Notices: Waiver, Estoppel and Withdrawal
  • The Effect of Exercising a Break Clause
  • Professional Liability
  • Business Tenancies
  • Residential Tenancies
  • Agricultural Tenancies
  • Drafting Break Clauses
  • Practical Advice When Exercising a Break Clause
  • Appendices
    • Break Clause for the Landlord – On One or More Specified Dates
    • Break Clause for the Landlord – Incorporating a Rolling Break
    • Break Clause for the Tenant – On One or More Specified Dates
    • Break Clause for the Tenant – Incorporating a Rolling Break
    • Particulars of Claim – Landlord’s Claim for Declaration Etc
    • Defence and Counterclaim – In Response to Landlord’s Claim for Declaration Etc
  • Index
Read the full contents


text:
Your cart is empty.

Haw Eaters' Brew Packs

Haw Eaters' Brew Packs

Say hello to our Haw Eaters' Brew! This light 4.3% lager has a subtle malt flavour that finishes crisp and clean and nicely packaged in a 355ml can.

You're excited?! We're excited!!

NOTE: Ontario beer delivery only. Out-of-province orders will not be fulfilled. ID required for proof of age.


text:
American Express - Official Card of the NBA
Free Shipping on U.S. Orders over $49. Use Promo Code NBA49
Thumbnail 0Thumbnail 1Thumbnail 2

Men's Sacramento Kings Black Primary Logo T-Shirt

In Stock - This item ships within one business day.
Your Price: $24.99
Best Seller in T-Shirts
free 2-day shipping & free returns on items in your cart
Register or login at checkout to earn
$0.75 FanCash on this item
  • This item ships within one business day.
  • Product ID: 2577424
  • Regular Fit: Not too slim, not too loose. Designed with a relaxed fit through shoulders, chest and waist.
  • Material: 100% Cotton
  • Crew neck
  • Screen print graphics
  • Short sleeve
  • Screen print graphics
  • Machine wash, tumble dry low
  • Officially licensed
  • Imported
  • Brand: Fanatics Branded
Show off your unwavering loyalty and love for the Sacramento Kings when you get this Primary Logo T-shirt. It features amazing graphics, so you'll be able to show how far your die-hard loyalty for the Sacramento Kings goes.


text:
Pocket Project: A Gate into the Unconscious

SKU: M0084 Category: Tag:

Selected tracks from the 5-days Pocket Project workshop with Thomas Hübl, which took place in Israel in June 2017.

  1. Trauma Structure Becomes Our Teacher 1:18
  2. Life Tries to Dilute the Trauma and Infuse a Resource 8:28
  3. Synchronized Imagination 10:35
  4. Different Ways to Induce Change 9:15
  5. Felling the Inner Sculpture of Colonialism 10:04
  6. The Agreement that Separation is True 9:24
  7. A Gate into the Unconscious Gate 3:48
  8. See Parts of a New World 3:15

Duration: 58 min

Published: September 2018

MP3s in English


text:
Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreaks Are Exposing Crumbling U.S. Public Health Infrastructure

Over 10,000 people in the U.S. have contracted the preventable disease this year.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kristi Haynes knew she had a problem when her eyes turned the color of traffic paint. Haynes had been feeling strangely tired, but she didn’t have many opportunities to look at herself in a mirror because she’d been homeless for a few months. Her fiance noticed her yellow eyes and freaked out. And that’s how Haynes knew she had caught the disease so many of her friends already had: hepatitis A.

Hepatitis A, a vaccine-preventable disease that attacks the liver and is spread by contaminated fecal matter, is a scourge in developing nations with poor sanitation systems. Imported contaminated food is typically to blame when the disease occurs in developed countries.

But U.S. cases of the disease have tripled in 2018, and the outbreak has nothing to do with imported food.

Hepatitis A is spreading among drug-using and homeless populations, with explosions of the disease moving from California to states such as Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri.

The toll has been vast: At least 10,582 people have been reported infected so far this year alone, a large number of whom have required extensive — and thus expensive — hospitalizations. Hepatitis A inflicts what feels like severe flu symptoms: nausea, fever, dizziness, overall lethargy, and jaundice. Without treatment, severe cases of hepatitis A can cause liver failure. At least 80 people have died from this outbreak.

States, counties, and cities have spent millions to fight their local outbreaks, but the money doesn’t address the root causes of the problem: a decaying public health infrastructure, devastated by years of funding cuts, that can’t fully meet the needs of a population driven to homelessness and devastated by the opioid epidemic.

“Unfortunately, I see this hepatitis A outbreak as a symptom of the fraying social safety net,” said Dr. Jeff Duchin, a public health officer for Seattle and King County, Washington.

Charleston and surrounding Kanawha County have been a hotbed of West Virginia's hepatitis A outbreak.
Charleston and surrounding Kanawha County have been a hotbed of West Virginia’s hepatitis A outbreak.

‘A New Normal’

Prior to 1995, when hepatitis An antibody was first authorized in the U.S., around 21,000 Americans were determined to have hepatitis An every year, as per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2006, the CDC prescribed all youngsters be immunized, and numerous states presently necessitate that kids get the antibody before going to class.

The arrival of the antibody and the spread of vaccination caused the number of new instances of the infection to dive. For the initial two decades after the landing of the immunization, most episodes of hepatitis An in the U.S. were associated with imported defiled nourishment sources — like the 2016 episode because of solidified strawberries or the 2013 flare-up from pomegranate seeds. On a lot littler scale, the U.S. has likewise recently observed floods in cases among gay, androgynous and other men who have intercourse with men.

So when San Diego County in California saw a spike in hepatitis A cases beginning in late 2016 and there didn’t seem, by all accounts, to be a hidden sustenance source, the area was gotten unsuspecting. The area wellbeing division found the malady was spreading through unsanitary living conditions in makeshift camps and among medication clients who were too old to even think about having been inoculated before going to class. Amid the pinnacle of the flare-up that falls, the area showered its boulevards with blanch. The wellbeing office propelled a huge immunization battle, included hand-washing stations and new washrooms, and gave out human crap packs that individuals could use to discard their waste on the off chance that they didn’t have normal access to a restroom.

When San Diego subdued the flare-up toward the beginning of 2018, about 600 individuals had been contaminated and 20 had kicked the bucket. It was only the start.

The San Diego strain of hepatitis A started to spring up across the country toward the finish of 2017 and the start of 2018, in Utah and afterward in Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia. Michigan saw a blast of an alternate strain of the infection.

Indiana before long made the extreme stride of issuing a tourism warning, recommending that its occupants get immunized this spring before making a beeline for Louisville for the Kentucky Derby in view of the developing flare-up there.

“Sickness doesn’t perceive outskirts when there are flare-ups in neighboring states,” said Pam Pontones, Indiana’s agent state wellbeing magistrate and state disease transmission specialist.

As it kept on moving east, the ailment spread principally through the medication utilizing populace. Unsanitary and at times transient conditions related with medication use put that populace in danger for presentation to the debased fecal issue, wellbeing offices state. There is additionally some proof to propose a conceivable association between the sickness and intravenous medication use, as indicated by Dr. Sapna Bamrah Morris, who helps lead the CDC’s reaction to hepatitis A.

“These are every one of the side effects of the expense and human toll the narcotic plague is taking,” Rahul Gupta, who was the leader of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources until November, told HuffPost in September. “It’s considerably more an indication of the occasions we’re in and the huge scourge, the torrent of transferable infection that can occur.”

What made these episodes hard to stop, general wellbeing authorities state, is that they were harming the general population who are hardest to achieve: the individuals who are destitute, transient or utilizing medications, and who don’t believe the medicinal services framework following quite a while of disparagement.

If these large hepatitis A outbreaks were happening, for example, on college campuses, you’d probably see a different level of energy around getting resources mobilized to respond to them more comprehensively.

Public health departments had to partner with homeless shelters, soup kitchens and needle exchanges to find these cases of hepatitis A. They set up vaccine drives, deployed strike forces of nurses and staff across cities, sent out mobile vaccine units to far away rural areas. That all takes time and money and effort — and the disease is still spreading.

“Reaching the at-risk populations that are currently affected is extremely resource intensive and everyone has limitations on the resources they have,” said Morris from the CDC.

Health departments also have “competing priorities,” she said, like the onslaught of the flu season.

Duchin put it a bit more bluntly.

“If this large hepatitis A outbreaks were happening, for example, on college campuses, you’d probably see a different level of energy around getting resources mobilized to respond to them more comprehensively,” he said.

The entire outbreak demonstrates how public health is failing people most in need of protection, said Jeffrey Howard, the commissioner of Kentucky’s public health department. When the CDC finally issued an advisory to health departments nationwide in June, cases were nearing 2,000 for the year. Now there are closing in on 11,000.

“It is always clear that inequities and disparities in health and health outcomes exist — and they exist across this country,” Howard said. “We have to do a better job of protecting that vulnerable population and I think that’s the responsibility of all of public health.”

Brenda Parker, who works for West Virginia Health Right, sets up a sign advertising free hepatitis A vaccines as part of a mo
Brenda Parker, who works for West Virginia Health Right, sets up a sign advertising free hepatitis A vaccines as part of a mobile clinic that travels to rural areas around the state.

Yet all the while, hepatitis A has continued to spread despite health departments’ efforts. And the problem gets worse as those outbreaks move from urban centers to more rural areas that have less public health infrastructure, Howard said. Kentucky and West Virginia have seen such a pattern and have the worst outbreaks to date with 3,265 cases and 2,137 cases, respectively. They’re still seeing new cases every week.

“My guess is we’re going to see a new status quo with hepatitis A,” Howard said. “Hepatitis A is not going to be a rare disease as it used to be in this country. It’s probably going to be a new normal.”

Decaying Infrastructure

Officials point to declining public health funding to explain the explosion of this preventable disease. More than 56,000 local health department jobs were lost nationwide between 2008 and 2017, according to the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). In that time, STD rates have skyrocketed, the opioid crisis now claims more than 115 lives a day, and 80,000 people died of the flu last year.

“As funding cuts happen all along over years, it’s really the public health infrastructure that erodes,” said Lilly Kan, the senior director for infectious disease and informatics at NACCHO. “It continues to be a smoldering issue, but then when you have fires like outbreaks like hepatitis A, then it becomes obvious.”

Nowhere were the consequences of public health cuts more evident than in West Virginia, where Haynes contracted hepatitis A. The state instituted a 24 percent cut in state aid to public health departments in 2016, and several leadership positions remained unfilled as the outbreak spread across the state.

“We’ve been able to manage, and counties that don’t have our resources cannot,” said Dr. Michael Kilkenny, the physician director at the Cabell-Huntington Health Department. “The state is overtaxed and is relying on the CDC.” But the CDC, which has competing priorities and a limited budget, can only do so much.

Kilkenny told WV Public Radio in 2016 that funding cuts “would really cripple” surveillance efforts for all sorts of diseases.

“If we stop watching for those diseases, those diseases will spread, people will get sick and some of those people will die,” he said at the time.

Dr. Michael Kilkenny, physician director for the Cabell-Huntington Health Department in West Virginia, has decried cuts to pu
Dr. Michael Kilkenny, physician director for the Cabell-Huntington Health Department in West Virginia, has decried cuts to public health funding for years.

West Virginia’s hepatitis An episode is currently the second-most exceedingly bad in the nation. Twelve of them in excess of 2,000 West Virginians who have been determined to have the ailment this year have kicked the bucket.

Wellbeing offices over the state have lost key staff; the state as of now has a break chief of general wellbeing. The staffing issues are especially critical in Kanawha County-Charleston ― the core of the episode, with 782 cases to date. The head of clinical administrations at the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department left for the current year, as did the head of an organization and the head of wellbeing advancement and wellbeing, as per the previous leader of the office. Five clerical specialists were given up because of spending cuts in 2017.

Dr. Michael Brumage, the previous office head, withdrew for the current year in the midst of open reaction over a disputable needle trade in Charleston that close down in February. What’s more, Brenda Isaac, the leader of the region’s wellbeing board, surrendered in October, saying she had turned into a “lightning bar” in the mayoral race, which was to a great extent a choice on the needle trade. The break leader of the city’s general wellbeing division is working low maintenance.

“It was an extremely appalling situation that exhausted the wellbeing branch of assets right when they required it most,” said Brumage, who is presently the aide dignitary for general wellbeing practice and administration at the West Virginia University School of Public Health. “Indeed, even under the best of conditions, it’s hard to enroll staff as financing has been sliced throughout the years.”

Dr. Angie Settle leads West Virginia Health Right, which has been instrumental in fighting hepatitis A on the ground in Charl
Dr. Angie Settle leads West Virginia Health Right, which has been instrumental in fighting hepatitis A on the ground in Charleston.

The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department didn’t move fast enough to combat hepatitis because it was distracted by the fight over the needle exchange, said Dr. Angie Settle, the CEO and executive director of West Virginia Health Right, a free health care clinic in Charleston. The county didn’t ramp up its efforts until new cases were peaking in the summer, added Ellen Allen, the executive director of Covenant House, a day shelter in downtown Charleston. Both organizations have played important roles in fighting the outbreak.

“We requested the health department to come in February, but we felt like we kept it too limited in scope,” Allen said. “We should have gotten our arms around this in the spring.”

Human Poop Bags

The primary populations affected by the outbreak — homeless people and drug users — are served by Covenant House, which has seen a sharp uptick in people coming through the door as the West Virginia economy has struggled in recent years.

Briana Martin, who manages the needs of people who drop in each day at Covenant House, knows at least 10 people in the day shelter who have been infected. She makes sure to wash her hands after interacting with people who have been exposed to hepatitis A. For those who haven’t been vaccinated against the disease, all it would take to contract hepatitis A would be to shake hands with someone who has it or touch the bathroom door before eating.

The health department has been handing out bags filled with wipes, a toothbrush, toothpaste, two water bottles, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, gloves, detailed sanitary instructions — and a poop bag. Over 85 people at Covenant House had received the kits as of September.

Briana Martin, drop-in center manager at Covenant House, shows the bags of hygienic products that are handed out to at-risk p
Briana Martin, drop-in center manager at Covenant House, shows the bags of hygienic products that are handed out to at-risk populations in Charleston. The green bag is for people to use to clean up their own waste.

In any case, clean issues endure. Allen said her staff regularly tidies up crap outside the asylum. She has asked for increasingly outside restrooms, yet nothing has changed — and the asylum is just open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It’s simply one more sign that things keep on exacerbating for those without a security net, as indicated by Allen.

“I’ve never observed anything like this,” she said. “I’ve been in charitable labor for a long time now and simply the most recent year the quickening and the decline in the prosperity of individuals — it’s lamentable.”

All of the 20 or so individuals at Covenant House one evening this September said they had known about hepatitis A. Yellow signs with intense letters encouraging individuals to get inoculated spotted the dividers.

Haynes, who asked not to be captured, was there doing her clothing. A moderately aged man who was visiting the safe house and did not have any desire to be recognized said he had a companion who had passed on in the wake of contracting hepatitis A, which confused his basic hepatitis B and C.

Terrell, a Covenant Houseguest who declined to give his last name, sat outside the entryways for a couple of hours before advancing into prod the staff. Yet, when gotten some information about hepatitis A, he addressed rapidly. “I’ve seen individuals going to kick its bucket — hold up till they’re going to pass on before they go in,” he said. “Is it safe to say that it isn’t a third-world malady and some crap?”

Terrell, who is currently homeless, said he has seen the effects of hepatitis A up close.
Terrell, who is currently homeless, said he has seen the effects of hepatitis A up close.

The Damage Done

The monetary expenses of these flare-ups have been high, regardless they’re rising.

San Diego County gauges it burned through $12.5 million to subdue its episode, which is one-quarter the span of West Virginia’s. Kentucky has apportioned $2 million so far to the immunization alone, which doesn’t tally government cash. The fundamental hospitalization costs are galactic, which Brumage said winds up influencing the two clinics and citizens on the grounds that such a significant number of individuals from the in danger populaces are uninsured.

“Those are extremely broad hospitalizations that itself would be a few million,” said Gupta, West Virginia’s previous general wellbeing magistrate.

This doesn’t start to represent alternate assets, for example, time, that general wellbeing divisions and network organizations have put toward engaging the flare-ups.

West Virginia Health Right sponsors mobile clinics that deliver hepatitis A vaccinations and HIV testing to rural areas acros
West Virginia Health Right sponsors mobile clinics that deliver hepatitis A vaccinations and HIV testing to rural areas across the state.

And news of an outbreak can devastate a local economy.

Popular fast food restaurants in West Virginia have taken a massive hit, said Tri-State Restaurant Association spokesman Mike Kirtner. The organization was formed after Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia saw hepatitis A cases take off. Hepatitis A cases have shut down several restaurants in the Charleston area this year, and Kirtner said one major chain lost 70 percent of its business in a single day after a case of hepatitis A was reported. Waitresses at affected restaurants have seen their tips decrease, Kirtner said, sometimes from as much as $300 a day to just $50.

Blame Game

Legislators, nearby TV news and general society have faulted pretty much everything aside from the absence of general wellbeing financing for the flare-up in West Virginia.

“Everything originated from eateries,” Danny Jones, Charleston’s active city hall leader, told HuffPost.

Be that as it may, none of the West Virginia cases have been followed to nourishment sullying. In any case, Kirtner stated, eatery specialists, who are at a lot higher hazard for the malady, are excessively spoken to among intravenous medication clients.

Jones additionally censured the wellbeing office for the flare-up, saying it “got it somewhat late.” But the genuine issue, he contended, was a “needle process” that pulled in bothersome individuals to Charleston.

“Too many free dinners attracting individuals,” he said.

Talk that way — the possibility that administrations helping the destitute and medication utilizing individuals are devastating Charleston — is winding up more standard.

A private Facebook aggregate called “Charleston Has Had Enough” faults “addicts, bums, cheats, unsafe individuals, most from out of state,” for the region’s developing issues and urges clients to “post your photographs of troublemakers.”

The gathering has in excess of 4,600 individuals, which is practically identical to around 10 percent of the city’s populace. Clients post unflattering photographs of individuals who seem, by all accounts, to be among the region’s destitute and medication clients, and some incorporate supremacist and homophobic subtitles.

“I’m moving, yet meanwhile, I need to feel safe and I need these awful animals to leave my vehicle, patio, home, and business alone!” one gathering part composed as of late.

Next Year’s Cases

That kind of dehumanization of the general population most in danger for hepatitis A will make it troublesome for general wellbeing suppliers to battle the sickness. Be that as it may, there are a couple of brilliant spots, said Morris of the CDC.

She is cheered by the sharing of data among distressed states, the brought issues to light about the issue among wellbeing divisions across the nation, and the new proposals from the CDC’s immunization warning board to make hepatitis An inoculation routine for the destitute — a general wellbeing first.

However, Morris said she doesn’t know what one year from now’s case tally could resemble.

“I am cheerful we may not see the bigger episodes that we’re seeing right now, yet it is extremely hard to anticipate,” she said.

Other general wellbeing specialists are increasingly skeptical.

“There is a valid justification to presume that this will additionally spread to different states,” Gupta cautioned. “This isn’t yet finished.”

For Howard in Kentucky, only one inquiry remains: “This is an ailment of creating nations. One needs to ask: Why are we seeing it in the U.S.?”

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here


text:
What’s His Story: The Run Commuter Gets to Work on Foot

Long before last week’s SnowJam made it national news, everyone in metro Atlanta knew what a drag the morning and evening rush hours are. Some people carpool or take MARTA to make things better.

Josh Woiderski runs.

Josh Woiderski, SnowJam, theruncommuter.com, run, running, commute, commuting, traffic, alternative to driving, run to work, jog, jogging, jog to work, Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Decatur, crazy people who run to work

Josh Woiderski started theruncommuter.com blog to share his enthusiasm for the healthy alternative to getting stuck in traffic (long before SnowJam).

That’s right. He runs to work and back most days rather than drive. He’s not alone. And he’s telling a story that’s drawing readers, participants and even sponsors on his blog, theruncommuter.com.

Woiderski, 37, is a paralegal downtown and longtime long-distance runner. He started running to work a few years ago after a wreck totaled his car. Rather than buy a new one right away, he started jogging from his then-home in West End. A married father of two boys and now living near Decatur, Woiderski runs into Atlanta most days, more than 5 miles each way. He ran last Tuesday, when 2 inches of snow shut down transit across metro Atlanta, then took a slow-moving MARTA train most of the way home before giving up and going on foot the rest of the way.

Absolutely! I love running and hate driving. Many people dread the idea of getting up an extra two hours early so they can work out, return home, get ready for work, then drive to the office. Run commuting allows you to get a run in while on your way to work, as opposed to in addition to commuting to work. (Check out his videos.)

I run on the sidewalks of Dekalb Avenue all the way into downtown Atlanta. There are days when I’ll change my route, especially when I’m meeting friends after work in Poncey-Highland or Little Five Points. On those days, I may use the PATH or the BeltLine for part of my trip.

I don’t shower at the office (mainly because we don’t have one). The “no shower” method  consists of taking a shower at home before leaving in the morning, cooling down in front of a fan in your office after you arrive, using baby wipes to clean your head and body, dressing, and then washing your face and head in the bathroom. It’s worked just fine for the last five years. And I work in a business environment where I regularly attend meetings and court hearings.

I wrote my first post about run commuting in February 2010. A few months later I was looking at our website stats and noticed many people were searching the web for things related to run commuting (running backpacks, running to work, etc.) and it was directing them to our blog. I searched the Internet and realized there were no good resources on run commuting, so I created The Run Commuter to fill that void.

At first, I was happy to get 30 or 40 hits a day. And then something cool happened. Other run commuters from around the world starting contacting us. We asked them to write about their commutes and soon we had a handful of contributors from the United States and Canada. Now we have a site that receives hundreds of hits a day and is the go-to destination for run commuter information, gear and tips.

Manufacturers send me gear to review, and I even receive a small percentage from some online sales. It’s not making me rich, but it is a nice, unexpected benefit of sharing the story of something I love so much.

It’s awesome when someone visits the site and it inspires them to start run commuting. And one of the most encouraging things to see is a coworker or friend who is run commuting already. So we hope that by sharing the experiences of new run commuters, along with helpful tips and guidance for those considering giving it a shot, that we’ll see run commuting grow exponentially around the world.

Soon after we created The Run Commuter, additional sites sprang up in other countries. These include Running to Work (UK), Running to Work (Spain), and Run Commuter (Netherlands). We loosely cooperate on a few projects, such as a yearly Run to Work Day and share experiences via @TheRunCommuter on Twitter and videos on YouTube.

RELATED: Behind the scenes of ‘The Walking Dead’

RELATED: Ex-photojournalist starts ‘Plan B’

RELATED: Ex-Reporter Now Works for Atlanta Mayor

4 thoughts on “What’s His Story: The Run Commuter Gets to Work on Foot

  1. Pingback: 6 Most Popular Blog Posts: What to Learn from the Numbers | StoryCroft

  2. Pingback: What’s Her Story: Carrying on the ‘Peanuts’ Legacy While Drawing Her Own, Too | StoryCroft

  3. Pingback: What’s His Story: From Atlanta to Uganda in the Fight Against AIDS | StoryCroft

  4. fan blower medan

    Thank you, I’ve just been searching for info approximately this subject for ages and
    yours is the best I have found out so far.
    But, what in regards to the bottom line? Are you sure about the source?

Let me know what you think!

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s


text:
Tag Archives: Scherr’s cabinet doors

  1. Kitchen Design

    December 11, 2013 by stpaulhaus

    My biggest inspiration is this very lovely craftsman style kitchen by Design Manifest and this kitchen featured in TOH Magazine: …
    Continue reading

Follow Me on Pinterest

Enter your email address to follow STP Haus and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 220 other followers

The Kitchen

The Guest Bedroom

The Dining Room

The 1/2 Bath

Posts by Room

Hirshfield's Color Club

We're the Midwest's premier paint and decorating centers.

The Mendota Project

Adventures in first time homeownership and DIY

Curious Adventures in Home Improvement

St. Paul Real Estate Blog

All about St. Paul, Minnesota - By: Teresa Boardman

Young House Love

DIY Home Decorating Projects, Tutorials, & Shenanigans

Welcome to Turtle House

Bout Dat DIY Life

Hazardous Design

Bout Dat DIY Life

Russet Street Reno

Bout Dat DIY Life

Just a girl with a hammer

Bout Dat DIY Life

Picardy Project

Bout Dat DIY Life


text:
Back To Latest Articles

Europe Hotel Market Passes U.S. in Growth for the First Time Since 2010

Comments 0

Europe hotel industry passes U.S. in growth for the first time since 2010

LONDON—According to data from STR, 2015 marked the first year since 2010 in which the European hotel industry passed hotels in the U.S. in year-over-year revenue per available room (RevPAR) growth.

In U.S. dollar constant currency*, Europe’s year-end 2015 RevPAR growth reached +6.9% (to US$83.94), while growth in the U.S. hit +6.3% (to US$78.65).

Both the U.S. and Europe have reported six consecutive years of RevPAR growth since each experienced a double-digit decline following the financial crisis in 2009. From 2011 to 2014, the U.S. consistently experienced a higher year-end growth rate. In 2014, U.S. RevPAR growth reached +8.1% compared to +4.3% for Europe.

Despite recent safety concerns across Europe due to terrorist attacks and threats, which affected key cities including Paris and London at the end of the year, several markets in the region experienced strong overall performances in 2015. According to STR analysts, the weakened Euro and displaced demand from North Africa played major roles. European hotels reported exceptionally high performances in the summer months, reaching +9.9% RevPAR growth in June, +13.0% in July and +8.4% in August.

Major European markets with notable RevPAR growth for year-end 2015 include:

Amsterdam, Netherlands (+12.1%)

Dublin, Ireland (+23.3%)

Barcelona, Spain (+11.3%)

Milan, Italy (+30.3%)

Warsaw, Poland (+9.8%)

Prague, Czech Republic (+14.6%)

Europe’s strong performance trend has continued into 2016, with the region finishing the month of January at +3.0% RevPAR growth versus +2.5% in the U.S. This also marks the first time since 2010 that Europe has opened the year with higher RevPAR growth than the U.S.

“Most European hotels had a fantastic 2015 and should be able to carry this momentum through to 2016,” said Robin Rossmann, managing director for STR. “While the U.S. has maintained higher performances after recovering from the recession, Europe is definitely catching up and the future looks bright. While demand remains high in both markets, at 3.0% in the U.S. and 2.9% in Europe, it will be interesting to see how the high projected supply growth in the U.S. will put pressure on hotel occupancy, while Europe’s supply growth trend remains slow and steady.”

Rossmann, who assumed his role at STR in January, will present at the 19th International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) in Berlin on Tuesday, 8 March.

*Constant currency is an exchange rate that eliminates the effects of exchange rate fluctuations and is used when calculating financial performance numbers. All RevPAR calculations use 31 January 2016 exchange rates.

Leave a comment

Restricted HTML

  • Allowed HTML tags: <a href hreflang> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote cite> <code> <ul type> <ol start type> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <h2 id> <h3 id> <h4 id> <h5 id> <h6 id>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.