Andy Onchan Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 3 minutes ago, WTF said: taxis and ambulances would be the usual suspects, and the cars dropping off doris to go to the shops while george finds a parking space. That probably says more about how the highway was designed as it does about the above. The crayonistas have forgotten that the prom is actually a main artery for the north/south traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramseyboi Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 This Was finished today. Some new lights. That is a pretty impressive delay even by DOI standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two-lane Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 I was on Douglas prom. today for the first time in a while. I was impressed by the new colour scheme - cyan and putrid purple. Just when you though the children had run out of coloured crayons. How many colours does it take to pave a Victorian promenade: black, light grey, dark grey, white, green, puce, beige, cyan, purple and various degrees of chroma from perfect-pink to pink-with-skid-marks. I saw some people still have difficulty negotiating the unmarked junctions. I saw someone trying to drive around the outer edge of a roundel as though they were trying to score a continues double on a dartboard. But... I have a plan. One night I am going to paint a 5 foot white circle in the middle of a roundel. The next morning everyone will think it is just a new mini-roundabout and do as they always do - drive straight over the white bits. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 It looks like what results from giving reception-year school kids a pack of watercolour paints to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 I've walked that bit of Promenade so many times. Now I just consider myself lucky to still be alive!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 (edited) On 12/20/2021 at 10:40 AM, manxchester said: I know its only a small thing but why can't they take the plastic wrapping off the lights opposite the Villa? Looks really scruffy blowing away in the wind and has been like that for weeks. kk Edited January 10, 2022 by Augustus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 24 minutes ago, Augustus said: The twats did exactly the same thing for months and months to the lights on Loch Promenade. Where does the plastic go once the wind and weather have finished with it? Into the sea. I have picked chunks of it off the beach. thanks Bill. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 amazing stuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 13 hours ago, Rhumsaa said: amazing stuff Nice to hear that the trademark Manx ill-fitting manhole cover has been incorporated into the new works. We wouldn't know we were driving on the IOM without the familiar clunk-clunk as cars pass over road ironworks. It's quite reassuring. 3 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 I don't know about the clank every time a vehicle drives over Man Hole covers but most of the Ironworks recently installed on the prom are rusting away already and all those square aluminium poles every few mitres outside the Palace hotel are not gong to last very long either , cant understand the need for all these additional parking signs ,and pedestrian controlled crossings when the more cost effective Zebra would have been a cheaper option perhaps the consultants thought they were not waisting enough money ,what with the drains filling with sand and stones the whole prom will be a nightmare to maintain , but when did the DOI maintain anything ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 4 hours ago, Gladys said: Nice to hear that the trademark Manx ill-fitting manhole cover has been incorporated into the new works. We wouldn't know we were driving on the IOM without the familiar clunk-clunk as cars pass over road ironworks. It's quite reassuring. Aren't they bloody useless? What would it take to pencil that in as a standard requirement on any roadworks? All draincovers to be battened down securely? But no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Blonde Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Augustus said: Aren't they bloody useless? What would it take to pencil that in as a standard requirement on any roadworks? All draincovers to be battened down securely? But no. How do they make then like that? The cover and but of metal that goes around the top of the hole are mass produced to a standard size. It's quite an achievement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 8 minutes ago, James Blonde said: How do they make then like that? The cover and but of metal that goes around the top of the hole are mass produced to a standard size. It's quite an achievement. That would be my guess too, you get the frame and the lid together and they fit neatly, so why do so many clunk? There are so many around that you wonder how this Manx solution has been found. It must be a PITA for those living next to that to have the continual dull clunk-clunk as traffic passes by. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Omobono said: every few mitres outside the Palace hotel I think the Bishops are protesting about the 'Den of Iniquity'? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Blonde Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 42 minutes ago, Kopek said: I think the Bishops are protesting about the 'Den of Iniquity'? The Casino? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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