It's been absolutely vandalised by city planners. A total disservice. Arrogant people experimenting on a city that they had no idea about and that they would never have to live with.
Absolutely. I wish there was some way to teach the people what vandalism was done to our city by arrogant city planners. No wonder people think badly of Leicester, it was taken away from people and given to cars
Whilst a central route around Leicester is needed what has been done has in many ways ruined what the city could have been. Much of it cut through historic parts of Leicester and divided areas into an incoherent jumble. It was done with every consideration for a driver trying to get through or around the city and none whatsoever for the people and communities that lived there. It has been so complete in it's destruction that I don't think most people even realise what an act of vandalism most of it is. Perhaps it would have been better not to have it at all and instead rely on the outer ring. Leicester is a very small city and doesn't really warrant the in some places 6 lane inner ring road. No wonder that people think Leicester is an awful place when it has been so thoroughly vandalised by city planners, who as you pointed out at the beginning of the video acted piecemeal and with no coherent idea of what the finished article should or would look like. The people of Leicester have been utterly let down by it's leaders for over 50 years and it is difficult to see how it can ever be brought up to what it once had the potential to be
Flabbergasted !!! I left Leicester in 1967 for Australia and Leicester is now in another world for me , anyway thanks for the trip very interesting .
It's a shithole now. I go back for funerals only.
It's been absolutely vandalised by city planners. A total disservice. Arrogant people experimenting on a city that they had no idea about and that they would never have to live with.
I remember St Margaret's swimming pool. I belonged to the Leicester swimming club so would turn up every week for a lesson.
Lived there for 55 years, it became an utter dump. Harris of Granby corner at the start now Blunts shoes. Worked at Harris's and Corahs.
The ring Road, particularly on the western side round the underpass involved so much destruction of Leicester's old buildings. Tragedy.
Absolutely. I wish there was some way to teach the people what vandalism was done to our city by arrogant city planners. No wonder people think badly of Leicester, it was taken away from people and given to cars
Leicester has far too many traffic lights. Way too many...try going down abbey lane to Birstall.
coltsuperocean10 Leicester officially has more traffic lights than any other city in the UK
Whilst a central route around Leicester is needed what has been done has in many ways ruined what the city could have been. Much of it cut through historic parts of Leicester and divided areas into an incoherent jumble. It was done with every consideration for a driver trying to get through or around the city and none whatsoever for the people and communities that lived there. It has been so complete in it's destruction that I don't think most people even realise what an act of vandalism most of it is. Perhaps it would have been better not to have it at all and instead rely on the outer ring. Leicester is a very small city and doesn't really warrant the in some places 6 lane inner ring road. No wonder that people think Leicester is an awful place when it has been so thoroughly vandalised by city planners, who as you pointed out at the beginning of the video acted piecemeal and with no coherent idea of what the finished article should or would look like. The people of Leicester have been utterly let down by it's leaders for over 50 years and it is difficult to see how it can ever be brought up to what it once had the potential to be
Iain Jacques? Ibstock? Hi, cousin.
It's a culturally vibrant city
No it's more like a dirty, edgy slum with too many immigrants
Daft as it sounds " i miss Leicester" up to point anyway
Roy Vickers flower shop, at the start of this video, is now the best pizza place in Leicester!! Really good pizza, and no, I do not own it.
Roy Vickers was a lovely chap. I remember buying flowers for a funeral there and he was so kind; I was on the verge of tears.
So many years ago.
....oh dear..pizza shop now shut.