That brought back some memories seeing Viccy Dock. I was born and bred in Drypool where all the timber yards was with their hoss and rullies. We used these yards as our playgrounds along with the bombed buildings, if you didn't go home grafted you'd had a quiet night. We used to get on Viccy Dock as well to climb over the stacks of timber and have a general mess about. Then they decided to demolish all the terraced houses in the area and destroying communites. Yea, we was going into better houses but it was never the same neighbour wise.
Ex Pats? Have you got anything for ex Twats? (Ric,heading down for the low ale trail,Alcohull free,as advertised on BBC Breakfast this morning).
£5.2m and nearly a year to remove a bike lane seems…like someone on here should try and get the contract!
It’s about time decent QS’s did their job and put a proper value on the work . It’s like waiting for a special part for the gold thing on top of the Guildhall . Take the part out and find someone to replicate it There’s still thousands of talented engineers and workshops in this country . It’s laziness and lack of lateral thinking . It might create a decent but if work for someone .
We needed a part for a lift once that “ had” to come from china. Took 3 months in all after coming by sea and also getting lost. The lift didn’t work for the 3 months. My complaint to my bosses was on the line of “ we built the railways over 200 years ago surely someone in the UK can build this bloody part.
Does anyone know if the cycle lane on FW is ever used... ?... or to what degree... or is it a bit like seeing someone having their haircut in a Turkish Barbers.
In a previous job I was taking one of our drivers to pick up a delivery van. We were talking about the same thing. Laughed our selves stupid when the only cycle we saw was a young kid going to wrong way with no hands on the handle bars talking on his mobile phone. Total waste of time and money. All for safety areas for cycling by the way.
It's a lot more than £5 million, as the cost of the initial (very predictable) **** up needs to be added and that would fix a lot of the potholes that not just damage cars, they put cyclists at risk. Apart from most of them being not fit for purpose and installed where they 'fit' rather than where they're needed, cycle lanes send out the wrong message (that bikes shouldn't be on roads), and statistics show the main collision areas are at the point the cycle lane rejoins the carriageway. Shared bus lanes are an even bigger farce, as if they ever became popular with cyclists, the bus timetable would fall apart and in the interim, they sit cyclists in more polluted areas, and in harms way with buses and also with pedestrians and vehicles as the lane ends and bus stops. I think that getting the same people that made the (very predictable) mess in the first place isn't reassuring, and rather than painting random lines on roads, spending the money on educating people on better shared use of the highway would be less fractious and create a safer environment and save a lot more money over all which could be spent on improving the road surfaces. It would also get cyclists off the footways, as that's a risk to all.
They have done one in Sheffield up a hill ffs. I told the locals you’re gonna regret it. Hardly used yet again.Tut
It gets worse when you realise that in reaching the final option, plenty of other even more ridiculous designs were proposed and rejected. The mess we end up with was the 'winning' idea after much debate and consideration, although rarely with any meaningful consultation*. There is also little, if any data used to decide where the need is, or if it has been 'successful' in fact the strict measures of success are hard to tease out from all of the blurb. *'these are our plans, what do you think' is NOT consultation, it's at best proof reading.
If the cycle lane in Sauchiehall St Glasgow is anything to go by,it's getting to the point where you're taking your life in your hands going for a bit of shopping. Jam packed with these deliveroo and just-eat cyclists bombing around on souped up cycles delivering fast food(aptly named given the speed they're travelling at). Fun and games when it ends at Rose St and the cyclists weave their way through unsuspecting shoppers in the 'pedestrian' part at the bottom end...One just missed me on Friday due to my wife dragging me out of the way...You need eyes in the back of your head FFS!!
Additional costs, take a look at beverley road heading out of town near Tesco. Loads of work done to fit in the cycle lane which has meant vehicles are driving on a different part of the road, there must be pipes or cables under the road which are now being driven over as the road is now breaking up. If you see what I mean.
The golden ball stopped working 3 weeks after the official ceremony to announce the completion of near 1/2 a million refurbishment. They told me at the Guildhall that a replacement part was being specially made. They did get it working again but not sure after how long and for how long.
Hey Ric just come back from Athens. If you think we are bad you need a trip out there. Just no rules it would appear for anything with 2 wheels
