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Deadline is Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 at 8pm.

These are starting to get a bit weird now. Are you a bit short of photos?

tubeguru wrote:These are starting to get a bit weird now. Are you a bit short of photos?

I think they must be there is only so many photos you can take i suppose.

tubeguru wrote:These are starting to get a bit weird now. Are you a bit short of photos?

Not at all, I just like using different ones.

Ah I have exited this station many times until I found a quieter one to use that just means a slightly further walk

Just to let you know you've got four hours left before I close this.

Which I have missed by a long way- despite working out the answer!

The station was St John's Wood, nearest to the Abbey Road studios and foot crossing famously used by the Beatles, and given listed status recently.

Those with a ticket to ride:
jbom
tubeguru (who also spotted the clue in the filename)
moley
Going Underground
Edgemaster
garion24wales
greatkingrat

Those with a ticket to Oasis:
palkanetoijala31 (Alperton)
Starkey7 (Hounslow West)

Please tell me other people here see the stupidity that the zebra crossing is now listed?

RichieG wrote:Please tell me other people here see the stupidity that the zebra crossing is now listed?

You mean because it's not even the original one?

jamesthegill wrote:Those with a ticket to Oasis:
Starkey7 (Hounslow West)

jamesthegill wrote:

RichieG wrote:Please tell me other people here see the stupidity that the zebra crossing is now listed?

You mean because it's not even the original one?

Speaking as a second year student of Town and Regional Planning, I'll add that it is pretty potty - the local authority has now set a precedent that means that a replica can be listed as well as the original. While I agree with the "cultural" reasons for listing (also quite a precedent as it's such recent culture), it's caused quite some uproar amongst the Town Planning community. This is because the precedent set is quite a dangerous one as it is now possible for the owner of a property to destroy the original historical structure and replace it with a replica - which doesn't have to even be on the same location! However this "dangerous precedent" should only affect other post war cultural structures - all structures over 150 years are automatically considered for listing and the listing system has also been very effective at capturing all of the other pre war buildings "of note", simply as so many were destroyed in the war meaning that many of the remainders from this time are listed for their uniqueness or their architectural merit.

The problem lies with other cultural buildings which may also have been missed off, demolished and replaced with a similar "replica" - however with 373,000 listed structures in England and Wales alone this looks unlikely to happen too many times. After all, perhaps it is the Town Planners and/or the politicians fault that they weren't listed before they were demolished in the first place - only time will tell.

jamesthegill wrote:

RichieG wrote:Please tell me other people here see the stupidity that the zebra crossing is now listed?

You mean because it's not even the original one?

More because...






Excuse me a moment...













IT IS JUST A F**KING ZEBRA CROSSING GET OVER IT







(admittedly, 'getting over it' is the whole point of zebra crossings, but I'll let that one pass for now...)

Surprise of the year 2011 RICHIE G SWEARING OM MY F****** GOD