The traffic problem is mainly caused by the towns industrial heritage. Whatever way you want to get in to the town centre you have to cross over the canal or go under/over the railway on a single carriageway road.

Saying this, the traffic isn't helped by poor traffic signals. The traffic lights on Riverway and Northway have pedestrian crossing 10-20 metres before or after them. This severely slows down the traffic as the crossings do not appear to be integrated with the traffic lights. This means that 3 or 4 cars pass through the junction then have to immediately stop if someone is using the crossing thus stopping the traffic queue flowing freely through the lights. This results in tailbacks into the town at rush hour when the pedestrian crossings are being heavily used.

The traffic lights st Tesco also created massive tailbacks when the road through Standish was closed and all traffic was diverted up Greenough Street and up thru' Whelley. the same thing happened recently due to the Haigh Music Festival.

good points

warriors
the people
john bulls
chicago rock
ben johnson's
st jude's club
goose green club
the brickmakers
the hub ( sort of remember being in there)
the walkabout
uncle joes mint balls
pies
the chippy beside train station
the hawk
the girl with the dark hair in the downtown diner
dirty harry
the moon (jack daniels for breakfast and a fry)
the canal
the red robin (except when wire and hull are playing)
some very nice ladies
cheat drink(conpared to belfast)
town centre( well i like it)
bad points

north western train station stinks
chav types
traffic
a wee bit to close to st helens
the weather bit like here
dave wellan

so all in all the good far out ways the bad and Wigan town is wonderful

Wigan has a canal that actually links different places together unlike St Helens where the canal stops in the supermarket car park and is blocked in several other places. Also the Wigan locks are one of the wonders of the waterways.

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The futures Brett, The future's orange!!!

2007- A fan-tash-tic season!!!!!!!

It is quite brilliant but I had never thought of it, I had taken it for granted really. There is nothing better than walking to Rugby on a nice summer evening =)

I enjoy our canals... usually cycle to adlington then go through haigh, whelley and upto parbold on 'em... nice. The negative is going up parbold hill on the way home.

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January 6th - Olivia Rose Selby will be the newest Warrior!

We have a narrowboat usually moored up at Red Rock but not at the moment because of the canal being shut.

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The futures Brett, The future's orange!!!

2007- A fan-tash-tic season!!!!!!!

Home of the most famous Rugby League Club in the World

Home of Northern Soul

We have Haigh Hall for music.

London has Petticoat Lane. We have The Wiend.

Wigan is and always will be my home. I love it and, apart from it's so-called football team, am proud of it.

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The future's bright, it's cherry & white.

I miss the Cooling Towers. They were part of our landscape!  

Agree about the towers. Always felt I was back home when I could see them out of the train window coming back from Uni.

Sadly after visiting yesterday, Warrington is better for town centre shopping and has the Gemini Centre but after being advertised on TV and described as award winning I have to say their one off farmers market was not actually IMO a farmers market but irrespective was rubbish and I have seen umpteen better farmers markets across the North West / Cheshire.

That Golden Square is excellent and is far better than The Grand Arcade and they have a lovely bus station too but other than that Warrington seems a bit souless.

Lancaster has a fantastic farmers market, everything from Bowland dairy products, beef, chicken, potatoes the lot, all within a 10 mile radius... 20 stalls all through the city centre was amazing.

Makes our outside 'market' look rubbish (to which it is)...

Our outside market needs overhauling, move them inside which will fill up the indoor part, and put local farmers/producers outside. Sick of east-european and african immigrants selling balloons with sand in them.

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January 6th - Olivia Rose Selby will be the newest Warrior!

That's a bit unfair A&L. This is Wigan after all. Not everyone can afford Harley Street prices for a boob job!!  

It's appalling, an african man who can't speak english standing outside Menzies selling crap such as lime and black coloured bobble hats and blow up chickens... it is ruinous. And that giant bouncy castle/slide where the Goths congregate out the Moon is crap, and the wet sand-pit covered in toddler piss is crap outside O2 shop, and the outdoor market, the empty half of the Galleries... that big shop that used to be BHS is crap, Smiths changed for the worse, that is crap the only good thing I go for is the History shop

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January 6th - Olivia Rose Selby will be the newest Warrior!

OMG. What a masterful vignette you paint!