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Traffic was snarled up through Ramsbottom this morning causing massive delays and tailbacks due to the temporary lights despite some people saying the lights were pointless as nothing was happening at the time.

Ramsbottom commuters have once again been brought to their knees by temporary lights and roadworks. It’s gotten to the point where I’m pretty sure the lights are just kept in a shed somewhere locally to be brought out in another week or two once these are finished.

One Network states that the roadworks are expected to last until the 15th of November.

One Network Roadworks 27 Oct – 15 Nov – Bury New Road, Ramsbottom, Bury

There’s recently been an application submitted through the Bury Planning Portal (64644) which is open for comments regarding the change of use of the old Dream Doors shop on Bolton Street into a bar: “Change of use of ground floor from shop (Class A1) to drinking establishment (Class A4)”

If you’re unfamiliar with the location, possibly you recognise how it used to look?

I know there are people in the community who are dead against any additional restaurants and bars coming into Ramsbottom. I can also absolutely see their argument. Bars and Restaurants already make up a large percentage of the numbers of businesses in Ramsbottom.

In addition there are a number currently closed, so what would this new bar bring that the others couldn’t?

Ultimately, this would mean that another premises that currently has the use as a “Shop Class A1” being changed to a Bar.

I’d love to know your thoughts, feel free to leave them in the comments section below. You can also have your say on the planning application on the Bury Planning Portal on this link. If that doesn’t work just search for 64644

It’s not uncommon to discover things whilst going through some home improvements. An old newspaper here, a height chart drawn on a door frame there, or, in this case, a work of art under the wallpaper.

Ramsbottom resident Bobbie Dowding posted to the “What’s on in Ramsbottom” Facebook group asking to help track down a mystery artist:

So my mam has stripped the wall in my sisters room and uncovered this art work 😂 it’s been signed at the bottom right hand corner by ?.Holden. We’ve lived in Ramsbottom since 2000 so she’s curious to find out who painted it all those years ago and hopes that they might see this post, if anyone might know who this is then please tag them 😊

Bobbie Dowding – Facebook

I did a little digging into the cartoon piece, and I believe it’s originally from Asterix in Britain:

Are you the mysterious R Holden?

If you were heading out this morning you might have noticed traffic heavier than usual, unfortunately this is such a common occurrence that I’m starting to think this should be something I add as a podcast segment onto the podcast.

This time, the roadworks are down to BT installing more fibre cabling, which hopefully will mean more people can get faster internet (I don’t know, it could be repairs)

Here are the details:

Whilst looking this up I also found there are some planned road works in a few weeks on Bass Lane (sorry everyone):

Yesterday it was announced by Transdev that the popular Ramsbottom bus service Red Express will no longer be operating every 30 minutes.

A quote from the announcement states:

Red Express has been performing better than it ever has before since we
made the change, but quite simply, we are not carrying enough people
outside of the morning and evening rush hours to keep Red Express going
in its current form.

It’s not clear what passenger numbers would have been enough, despite it now performing better than ever. It was, however mentioned on the Bury Times just last week that:

Fifteen per cent more people are said to be using their services, following Transdev’s takeover

A spokesperson for Transdev has been in touch with this quote:

The 15% growth figure you’ve quoted relates to routes taken over as part of our purchase of Rosso. Red Express is actually part of our existing Blackburn operations, and isn’t a Rosso route – we made changes to the route to divert it through Rammy in order to create a direct link to Manchester, and of course, Rosso tickets are valid on Red Express now that Rosso is part of the Transdev family.
The new service pattern through the daytime better reflects the number of customers we have travelling outside of the peaks, and should hopefully create a much more solid ground from which to build upon for the future.

What’s going to change?

Sunday 1 September, Red Express will become hourly during the daytime, Monday to Saturday…

We’ll be maintaining our current levels of service during the busy
morning and afternoon peaks, with a bus roughly every 30 mins.

How will this affect you? Is it better to have a service, even hourly than risk losing it due to profits?

Source: http://lancashirebus.co.uk/news.jsp?newsID=2764