Derby Council - New Ring Road

m0r94n · 2 Dec 2009 at 23:24

Not sure if this has already been posted (if it hasn't I'll be surprised):

Goto http://www.derby.gov.uk/ and scroll down whilst looking at the right hand side of the page.

There should be a vote, check out the results

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Lara Croft Way anyone?

Fuzz · 3 Dec 2009 at 01:20

What tit voted Merlin..

I was right with my guess then LOL

Lara Croft Way (12414) << Haha

Downsy · 3 Dec 2009 at 08:07

Up to 15,000 odd now!

knowledge123 · 3 Dec 2009 at 08:15

ahaha, 97%

I hope it goes through!

floatindolphin · 3 Dec 2009 at 08:37

I voted Eagle Way........I'm not a geek..........damn! I work in computer games........in Derby!.........GAH!!!

FiremanSam · 3 Dec 2009 at 08:49

I take it the public made the suggestions for the names in the first place? How comes no one suggested Howard's Way?

Cosimo · 3 Dec 2009 at 09:26

FiremanSam said:
How comes no one suggested Howard's Way?

Because Derby isn't on the South coast. I wasted my vote on Merlin.

m0r94n · 3 Dec 2009 at 19:46

Wouldn't mind knowing how these suggestions were gathered, i'd have expected more joke ones to be honest.

thepeganator · 3 Dec 2009 at 19:52

Lara Croft it's looking like it is

Gothic Draconia · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:26

You do know the history of where Lara Croft games were originally created?

Pho · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:56

I hate driving through Derby, Lara Croft Way will make it seem like more fun though. Voted

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No1newts · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:59

Lara Croft way it is by the looks of it with 19k+ votes and a 97% majority

Pho · 3 Dec 2009 at 21:01

Chances are they'll overturn it in favour of some rubbish suggestion though

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m0r94n · 3 Dec 2009 at 21:31

Gothic Draconia said:
You do know the history of where Lara Croft games were originally created?

Yes, Core Design was based in Derby. Still, its a bloody weird name for a road.

Pho said:
Chances are they'll overturn it in favour of some rubbish suggestion though .

From the looks of it, the top two will be the names of each stretch of road or something.

Biohazard · 3 Dec 2009 at 21:33

haha they will never do it though.

big_white_dog84 · 3 Dec 2009 at 22:37

They'll definitely ditch it in favour of something acceptable. I seem to remember there being a smiliar vote to name something to do with the new Wembley stadium. Us Scots all got together to call it something like 'The 1967 Bridge', or 'the Jim Baxter Stand' or whatever it was. Of course they didn't like that answer, so they took the top 5 public votes (which of course contained a couple of acceptable ones) and then selected the winner by committee :rolleyes:

fullspizz · 3 Dec 2009 at 22:49

They have said that they are more than open to the idea of Lara Croft Way due to the first few games having been developed in Derby.
There is nothing else on there really that sounds any good.
I think Merlin is to do with the Rolls Royce engine, so would probably go for that.

melbourne720 · 26 Feb 2010 at 09:51

Biohazard said:
haha they will never do it though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/8538106.stm

Biohazard · 26 Feb 2010 at 09:56

melbourne720 said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/8538106.stm

Goes to show what I know eh?

LordSplodge · 26 Feb 2010 at 10:02

I just wish they'd hurry up and finish it. It gets in my way getting to town!