0bserver Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 30 minutes ago, Amadeus said: the reply was “not our job. I just do what I’m told”. IOM Public Sector at it's finest 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 19 minutes ago, 0bserver said: IOM Public Sector at it's finest so as a good old fashioned compromise how difficult would it to have had parking on the promenade walkway opened up for the weekend and suspend the parking on the highway , or is this too much for the DOI intelligentsia and the corpy to agree to or is no one who is responsible for these areas give a toss about the motorists , shoppers and the viability of the shopkeepers anymore , and that goes for Amadeus as well thats why we elected you to keep an eye on the situation and look after the ratepayers interests 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha-acid Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 minute ago, Omobono said: so as a good old fashioned compromise how difficult would it to have had parking on the promenade walkway opened up for the weekend and suspend the parking on the highway , or is this too much for the DOI intelligentsia and the corpy to agree to or is no one who is responsible for these areas give a toss about the motorists , shoppers and the viability of the shopkeepers anymore , and that goes for Amadeus as well thats why we elected you to keep an eye on the situation and look after the ratepayers interests They have opened up parking on the Prom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 well thats a step in the right direction for a change , but didn't see or hear it advertised as such anywhere not even on the nations mouthpiece MR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 The issue I have is that the parking suspension implemented by a third party contractor was possibly defective and that people got tickets because of unclear signage. If someone moved the cone in the morning and they saw it and ticketed, fair enough, that’s blatant. But loads of cones were missing by the time I saw it around lunch time and they hammered cars parking in seemingly open spaces with no cones and no signs nearby stating a parking suspension. Fine the contractor, not the drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, Amadeus said: The issue I have is that the parking suspension implemented by a third party contractor was possibly defective and that people got tickets because of unclear signage. If someone moved the cone in the morning and they saw it and ticketed, fair enough, that’s blatant. But loads of cones were missing by the time I saw it around lunch time and they hammered cars parking in seemingly open spaces with no cones and no signs nearby stating a parking suspension. Fine the contractor, not the drivers. Let's have a public execution outside the cultural quarter pity Sir Norman is still missing he could have been a witness or has he been sold as scrap? the whole thing had been a joke from start to finish , and where are the MYPROM team in all this , I hear they have been disbanded , to its every person for themselves again 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 What has happened to Sir Norman ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Omobono said: so as a good old fashioned compromise how difficult would it to have had parking on the promenade walkway opened up for the weekend and suspend the parking on the highway , or is this too much for the DOI intelligentsia and the corpy to agree to or is no one who is responsible for these areas give a toss about the motorists , shoppers and the viability of the shopkeepers anymore , and that goes for Amadeus as well thats why we elected you to keep an eye on the situation and look after the ratepayers interests Again it's just the IOM Public Sector group think. None of it is rocket science. But we should be use to the lazy bone idleness approach by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 12 minutes ago, hissingsid said: What has happened to Sir Norman ? He died in 2010! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Johnson Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Amadeus said: The issue I have is that the parking suspension implemented by a third party contractor was possibly defective and that people got tickets because of unclear signage. If someone moved the cone in the morning and they saw it and ticketed, fair enough, that’s blatant. But loads of cones were missing by the time I saw it around lunch time and they hammered cars parking in seemingly open spaces with no cones and no signs nearby stating a parking suspension. Fine the contractor, not the drivers. FFS If there are hundreds of no parking cones along about half a mile of road on both sides of the road and some have been moved by idiots to park illegally, do you? A) - Think that wherever there is a gap between no parking cones, moved by idiots, you try and squeeze between and fit your car in and park? Thinking you are "Special" and laugh as you wander off to shop. or B) - Not park on the road because it is blatantly obvious to anyone with half a brain that parking is suspended due to no parking cone placement? And, AND, that there are lots of empty parking spaces on the prom on the busiest day of the week? Which would be very strange if it were not for the hundreds of no parking cones? And then make a sensible call/ decision and go and park on the prom walkway which is clearly marked as being available to park on during the works on Lock Prom ? Edited April 2, 2022 by Boris Johnson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 i first thought the issue is that the road was one way so they end up parking nose in in violation of the parking rules rather than the big empty space being a no parking area for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Anyone know what’s the latest with tram tracks & horse trams? Crookall said in January I think they would be operating end of March. Last week The tracks were lying in a heap by bottom of Broadway & no work was being to finish laying etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbnuts Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Banker said: Anyone know what’s the latest with tram tracks & horse trams? Crookall said in January I think they would be operating end of March. Last week The tracks were lying in a heap by bottom of Broadway & no work was being to finish laying etc Myprom management minutes quote Longworth saying after they are finished it will take 8 to 10 weeks for it to be signed off by rail inspector and training of staff and horses. Make what you will off that. Nothing happening this side of August I'd say. And there is another overlying issue with to big gaps between rails which Longworth says is fine but Rail inspector says otherwise . This could go into a 5th year yet lol 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 minute ago, Numbnuts said: This could go into a 5th year yet lol That's optimistic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Banker said: Anyone know what’s the latest with tram tracks & horse trams? Crookall said in January I think they would be operating end of March. Last week The tracks were lying in a heap by bottom of Broadway & no work was being to finish laying etc 4 minutes ago, Numbnuts said: Myprom management minutes quote Longworth saying after they are finished it will take 8 to 10 weeks for it to be signed off by rail inspector and training of staff and horses. Make what you will off that. Nothing happening this side of August I'd say. And there is another overlying issue with to big gaps between rails which Longworth says is fine but Rail inspector says otherwise . This could go into a 5th year yet lol The only sensible thing to do now is call it a day on the horse trams. Pave over that mess at the bottom of Broadway/Castle Mona Avenue and wrap it all up. Let the train spotters put a little plaque on the wall to say the horse trams used to run there. But now it's beyond ridiculous and is a sunk cost fallacy throwing more money after bad. Residents have had enough, road users have had enough... it's a mess and am embarrassment. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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