LOVE THEM or hate them, the multinational mega-supermarkets are here to stay. Multiplying like a retail bacteria, each promises the lowest prices, the best quality and the best service. One development in the last few years at many supermarkets is the introduction of “pay at the pump” systems on their petrol station forecourts, where customers [...more]
ON THE Fylde Coast, we are used to traffic schemes that create congestion and prohibit traffic flow rather than alleviate and assist them. Usually the masterminds behind these shite traffic management schemes are sat in Blackpool Council offices, but Highways Agency traffic boffins have taken the biscuit with their proposals for the Norcross Roundabout on [...more]
NONE OF us like the dull thud and resultant jolt as our vehicles traverse the nasty cancer of speed humps coursing through Blackpool’s road infrastructure, and our motoring experience is about to get a whole lot more turbulent as several roads in the Revoe area are set to be closed intermittently to install even more [...more]
THE BLOODY-MINDED, ivory tower approach of Blackpool council in relation to the roads has struck once again after a pensioner was smashed into by a vehicle whilst walking on a controversial pedestrian crossing on Lytham Road. It’s not very often that pedestrians call for pedestrian crossings to be removed, but like the crossing at St. [...more]
IT’S THAT time of year again, but will Blackpool Council be able to keep locals safe this year by gritting the roads? Enter Operation Snowdrop!
I AM positive that most of you will have seen this gem in the Gasjet last night, but if not there was a cracking letter sent in response to claims by car parking desk jockeys that parking revenue had dropped due to people parking in cheaper, privately run car parks instead of council ones. The [...more]
HERE’S A little activity which you can all try at home, work or wherever else you may be. Ensure you are looking straight ahead and take your dominant hand and place it round your throat. Now squeeze your windpipe so it’s about half its normal diameter. Not enjoyable, is it? But this is what Blackpool [...more]
A lady named Diana Pidwell has attracted the attention of the local newpaper today with a serious complaint about the safety of a new pedestrian crossing in South Shore. Perversely I did sport a grin when I read this story but you will see why shortly. In their infinite wisdom, plonkers in the council planning [...more]