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The elements seem way too big, pacing seems off with many dead spots..

I hope it gets faster. It looks too slow for my taste.

you earned a new sub!

All houses for immigration, English still struggling...

Your such a good lad. Well done.

Can’t wait to ride this 🤩

Will these exist be used at some point in time? It seems likely to me they will be. If they had waited, when they do come to use them, there will be the cost in terms of building the junction, probably much more than current, the disruption to the main flow of traffic. Would they be able to get the developer to pay? Do these ghost roundabout get built often? I think I have seen many. Do they remain ghost for long periods of time? Those that I have seen, no generally used with 1 to 2 years.

huh, taking me the whole episode to realise your missed the 'd' in your title.

Passing your test in Buxton is a laugh, the wait times are so long it took one of the guys at work years to get a pass, at least the waste of time roundabout which took ages to build slows down traffic before you crawl into Buxton, big up to John, that would be wicked sweet awesome.

Where do they get the idea that a crossing on the exit from a roundabout is in any way safe or sensible?

Definitely looks a short ride but some cool elements in a compact space

I've said it before, the pre requisite to be on council is a frontal lobotomy, nuff said. Greetings from nobs Scotia. Use to live in Derbyshire 😁

You think you have problems. I live in Ilkeston on the Derby /Notts border.

Hi Leo another nice little video in which you have tactfully identified some really important issues. I shall be a little less tactful. Exodus from towns and cities into the countryside has been going on for many years people being willing to travel several hours each way from home to work and back. Derbyshire villages are full of people who have moved into the country from areas where property prices are higher. This enables them to buy properties here that are far superior to what they have left. I cant blame them, and if I had the money I might do the same. But there are potential problems and these have arisen in other parts of the country. One of the saddest impacts I saw when living in the Peak was the way house values were pushed up and out of the range of local people whose children could not afford to have a home in the village in which they were raised. You have mentioned environmental destruction and building on green fields sites but there are also others. Doctors for example, we all know how hard it is to get an appointment. Schools are another, cash strapped local authorities are slow to extend or build schools. Traffic is also a major problem, more people = more vehicles, are the local roads up to it? The list goes on and I would advise the good people of Buxton to think about this and if they don't like it, do something otherwise before they know it then it will be a done deal and its too late to complain once the trees are felled and the foundations dug. Thanks for another video, looking forward to the next. 👍

Thanks for the video. Greetings from New Zealand.

Is that taller than pepsi max and stealth

it's pretty obvious it's Ripsaw at this point, i've seen a photo that mentions a Top-Spin attraction so by the sounds of it they've bought a Huss Top-Spin (same ride as ripsaw)

Hi Leo, another nice barrow full of rubbish collected, well done! The argument about boundaries has been going on since 1951 when it PDNP was first created that's 73 years ago and things have changed massively since. People have argued about the title saying "National Park" is not appropriate. They have argued about what industry should be allowed, whether the boundary should be reviewed, extended or reduced. They have argued about planning permission, "its too strict or not strict enough", where housing should be allowed and a multitude of other issues. In short this is an issue that will never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction. The National Parks seem to generate arguments if its any consolation the same thing goes in in all the other National Parks as well. 🤣

your presenting skills have improved so much since you started this project :) well done!

The term “The Peak District” has been in use well before the establishment of the National Park. I have railway posters from the 1930’s and guidebooks from the late 19th century that use that specific term. There is no agreement between the books as to where its borders were, but all include the upland areas of NW Derbyshire, and most include surrounding parts of Cheshire and Staffordshire, and sometimes Yorkshire. In all, Buxton was firmly within the Peak District. Earlier books tend to just use the term “The Peak” or “The Peaks”, drawn from the medieval “Hundred of the High Peak”, an administrative region that was abolished with the local government act of 1894 or the former “Forest of the High Peak” - a royal hunting reserve established in the area following the Norman conquest. Some will also refer to the Pecsaetan, the (rather obscure) Anglo-Saxon tribe that used to occupy the area. I would guess that the specific term “The Peak District” as opposed to say “The High Peak” or “Peaks” emerged as a marketing term used by railway companies and booksellers during the growth of domestic tourism in the Victorian era and thus entered common usage. As mentioned above, its boundaries well not well defined, but certainly included Buxton.

Great video. I first heard of these via Ringway Manchester who pointed one out in a pub car park on Werneth Low where I had been many times unaware!

Hi. As a lifelong local to the Peak District I would say that I agree that the national park boundry is "The Peaks". The reason that Buxton and the surrounding area is controlled by High peak council is that the council is named after the medieval "Hundred of the High peak" which was an area designated by the Barmote (Lead mining) court. In fact High peak council didn't even exist untill the mid 70s which is over 20 years after the National Park was designated.

Thing is when it comes to “where is the Peak District” is that, well, lots of things are hard to define. Forgetting the national park boundary’s and just looking at where the peaks are gives a much larger area than what the park covers. High tor near Matlock is a huge peak but isn’t in the park. Geographically though it’s very much contiguous with the Peak District landscape. Us humans like to give very defined boundary’s to where one thing starts and stops but a question like “is it hilly enough to be considered Peak District” can in some places be very hard to answer

Thanks for sharing

The point where the peak district starts can be measured by the amount of traffic parked in awkward places by the road: the closer you are to the centre the more likley a tourist is to just abandon there car in the middle of the road to go for a walk 🤐

I always considered Buxton not in the Peak District and was an area i had to travel a bit to get to. More like "Buxton, gateway to the peak district"

Totally differen they say. Was the year with the less amount of changes in the lau out😅😂

Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.

The Peak District is not a defined area - but we kind of know where it is anyway. The Peak District National Park does have a boundary

I hope your mum gets no council tax charges this month. 😁. Great job

Could you tell me how you got inside

Buxton looks remarkably clean. The state of my London borough would knock you sick.

The last thing the Monsal trail needs is even more bikes. As a walker you need to be continually on alert to avoid being run down. A footpath between Buxton and Blackwell would be nice. There are various places in the White Peak where a short length of footpath between two existing ones would be useful, you can spot the estates which don't want it to happen.

Surely Buxton is in the Peak District but not in the designated area of the National Park for some reason. I stand to be corrected of course.

No need to reverse into sidings at Buxton surely. There appears to be plenty of room to build an extra platform between the lines on the curve linked by a walkway to the existing station, or even move the station altogether, remove the lines and sell off the land for redevelopment to pay for it. But everything I've read about this is suggesting direct trains from Manchester to Derby?

The VLR concept was to reduce the considerable cost of infrastructure in current light rail systems. Following in house testing, the next step would be tests at a non-critical location. In this case using existing freight lines. The location here would be suitable to prove the concept before incurring further expenditure at an urban location, so it may not just be a mad scheme for a status symbol. Note that the London Underground carried out trials of automatic train operation on the lightly used Woodford-Hainault shuttle before using on the Victoria Line so to me, it makes sense.

I made the mistake of driving over snake pass and turning round just past Sheffield hospital at the round about and spotting clean air zone ends sign and going steait back down snake pass away form Sheffield. Anyways receve a £130 pcn ticket few weeks later for the rip of conn clean air charge. I can honestly say il never drive past the snake pass to turn round in Sheffield and il never visit that town again. 👍

What an incredible job 🏆🏅 What a shame it needs doing. We moved from the Buxton area in 2012 so it was interesting to see parts of it again. Would it be worth having a strong bag in your barrow that you can fill and then empty into bins? Then you wouldn’t have to unload objects individually.

A heritage line with hourly services and reasonable fares

I think you are a great Lad Leo, you are a credit to Buxton I only wish we had more like you, perhaps then our country would like like it was before plastic bags and bottles, cans and McDonalds wrappers (you can guess my vintage). What I really hate however is something you see everywhere while walking. It is an offence to leave dog mess on the ground after Fido does what comes naturally, so the answer is to pick it up in a bag and then bin the bag. Why then do people pick it up in a bag then dump the bag, hang it on a gate or a branch of a tree? Dog mess is at leave organic and will eventually disappear, a plastic bag will not. There todays rant is over, keep up the good work.

YOU are a STAR man...

Good man.

I totally forgot to mention in the video but thank you to those of you who came and said hello on this day! It was great to see some of my subs in person and a special thank you to the gentleman who gave me the biscuits :)

Heroes. Nothing like this when I dwelt in the town!

Respect for the commitment you have. Don’t you use a litter grabbing stick?

There's more on the VLR concept here. The vehicle runs on easily available freight bogies and has a modular arrangement so that it can be battery, light diesel or, in future, hydrogen. The maintenance facilities and stations are also modular. It is simple and cheap (in rail terms) which is the idea: czcams.com/video/jBcNAjZuQ-k/video.html

I think you are missing the point here. The VLR vehicle is a prototype so it's to use it on a relatively easily converted route to test it out for other projects in the future. So whilst on paper it probably doesn't stack up, in testing, it probably would. A bus wouldn't be as eco friendly, even an electric one, as by FAR the most polluting and carcinogenic factors are tyre dust and brake dust, neither of which the VLR vehicle has any of. So, I'd respectfully suggest that it IS put forward.

Electric trains in Buxton!!!!! Don`t make me laugh, you need to send a pigeon up there with a message on it`s ankle, the hovel is full of unemployed pot heads, Last time I went there they didn`t even know Princess Di had died!!

The time hillllsssss are madddddd omg I can’t wait

The only sensible option is to fully reopen the railway from Buxton to Matlock & put the trains back on from Manchester to London St Pancras via Derby , think of the revenue this would bring into the area. The only reason HS2 to Manchester is needed is because they shut the 2 main routes down to funel everything down the WCML. The mistakes of closing the MR route through Matlock & the Great Central via Woodhead have come back to bite. the walkers / cyclists need to get real, by putting the trans back on is the path to boosting the local economies.