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.
Fylde Community Radio and the Gasjet have covered this one already, but I thought I’d toss in my two penneth.
It was decreed a number of years ago that the council’s target was for Blackpool taxis to be no older than 10 years by 2013. The maximum age is currently set at 14 years.
You can’t have failed to notice the prices of fuel creeping up at the pumps for no apparent reason. The cheapest price in Blackpool that I have found is 111.9p per litre of basic unleaded (Shell on Talbot Road and Morrisons at Squires Gate); not quite the 120p of the previous fuel price surge but that could soon change.
Read more on Labour’s fuel duty escalator less than a fortnight away…
I’m not really surprised by this but it came out two days ago that out of 88,536 incidents of police officers caught speeding on duty last year only 153 were prosecuted. And these were only the ones caught on camera.
Whilst the Council are pumping money into more traffic calming bollocks on Bloomfield Road, their neglect for road maintenance becomes more and more prominent.
Drive around anywhere these days and there’s a good chance you will find pot holes in the road. Take Highfield Road, Ansdell Road, Central Drive, Condor Grove, and so on: all have big chunks of tarmac missing.
I know, it’s a shocker. I hope this weather improves soon, I’m getting just as bored of writing about gritters (or lack of) as you are of reading about them.
I mentioned yesterday that the Council had run out of grit and this was today confirmed by the Gasjet, with a full smattering of short-term, backward-thinking excuses from the Council once again.
…when we just have to step outside on the pavement?
Do they grit pavements at all?
I’ve actually just seen a gritter on Whitegate Drive but sweet bejesus – it wasn’t actually gritting. Listening to the radio tells me that we’ve finally run out of rock salt which may well explain it. But does this mean they’re deploying gritters that aren’t gritting, just so that they appear to be doing something?
A white blanket of snow has once again draped itself over the Fylde!
As I drove down from North Shore this morning to the dulcet tones of emergency services vehicles I noticed that for once the Council have actually put grit down in advance of the snow! On some roads.
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