WTF Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 6 hours ago, Roxanne said: Thought I’d check up on this thread to see what progress had been made. none, just like the prom itself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emesde Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 >It's a good job that the DOI have widened the road. {according to them) as the bus I was on only had to stop twice for the driver to get out and move cones to make the carriageway wide enough to get through. A slightly wide car had parked in the parking area and caused havoc by overhanging the lines until the driver of the bus moved the cones.... gridlock. When will this farce finish. I live on the prom and have a new section of double banked cones outside. But no sign of anyone working in the area. This thread was started 26th July 2013..less than 2 weeks to yet another annual 🎉. 1.5 miles of road. Is this going to go into the Guinness book of Records.? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha-acid Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, emesde said: >It's a good job that the DOI have widened the road. {according to them) as the bus I was on only had to stop twice for the driver to get out and move cones to make the carriageway wide enough to get through. A slightly wide car had parked in the parking area and caused havoc by overhanging the lines until the driver of the bus moved the cones.... gridlock. When will this farce finish. I live on the prom and have a new section of double banked cones outside. But no sign of anyone working in the area. This thread was started 26th July 2013..less than 2 weeks to yet another annual 🎉. 1.5 miles of road. Is this going to go into the Guinness book of Records.? More like 1.75 miles so it is harder than 1.5 Edited July 15, 2022 by alpha-acid spelling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emesde Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, alpha-acid said: More like 1.75 miles do it is harder than 1.5 Don't know what you mean but I won't argue with you over 400 yards. 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Well, I have just driven across the prom, mid summer's evening, dead as a doornail and dark and miserable! The lighting is totally abysmal, no atmosphere whatsoever. Quite frankly a bloody disgrace for somewhere that purports to be a vibrant holiday destination! Apart from that, the whole town has deteriorated as far as nightlife goes. (I visited a handful of pubs, full of half wits to be honest) I'm glad I wasn't drinking at £5.00 a pint, although that doesn't seem to deter the trackies and trainers gobshites who frequent the town these nights! We're doomed! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ďouglas Peel Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, Max Power said: Well, I have just driven across the prom, mid summer's evening, dead as a doornail and dark and miserable! The lighting is totally abysmal, no atmosphere whatsoever. Quite frankly a bloody disgrace for somewhere that purports to be a vibrant holiday destination! Apart from that, the whole town has deteriorated as far as nightlife goes. (I visited a handful of pubs, full of half wits to be honest) I'm glad I wasn't drinking at £5.00 a pint, although that doesn't seem to deter the trackies and trainers gobshites who frequent the town these nights! We're doomed! Glad i witnessed 78TT 10pm gazing down on the prom from the Falcon cliff .hot weather like now, coloured bulbs. Bikes everywhere.. mega atmosphere... that said, the roundels and other new bits on the prom are good ..the lights are crap.Also can somebody powerwash that new area in front of the Sefton... birdshit n piss aint a nice look tor tourists. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, Ďouglas Peel said: Glad i witnessed 78TT 10pm gazing down on the prom from the Falcon cliff .hot weather like now, coloured bulbs. Bikes everywhere.. mega atmosphere... that said, the roundels and other new bits on the prom are good ..the lights are crap.Also can somebody powerwash that new area in front of the Sefton... birdshit n piss aint a nice look tor tourists. That's a common theme around Douglas, check out Regent Street, disgusting! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 32 minutes ago, Max Power said: Well, I have just driven across the prom, mid summer's evening, dead as a doornail and dark and miserable! The lighting is totally abysmal, no atmosphere whatsoever. Quite frankly a bloody disgrace for somewhere that purports to be a vibrant holiday destination! Apart from that, the whole town has deteriorated as far as nightlife goes. (I visited a handful of pubs, full of half wits to be honest) I'm glad I wasn't drinking at £5.00 a pint, although that doesn't seem to deter the trackies and trainers gobshites who frequent the town these nights! We're doomed! This is nightlife across the Island with the possible exception of Peel at the weekends. Lots of factors including social changes for sure but the Good Doctor says we're not in recession so that definitely can't be part of it....no Sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 thats because the silly council have either closed the public toilets and every other amenity we used to enjoy or made them pay , street stinks of piss and in all the little alleyways , what happened to their fantastic CTV that was going to stop this anti soclal behavior , dog fouling and vandalism that seems to rife in the town centre ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbnuts Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Max Power said: That's a common theme around Douglas, check out Regent Street, disgusting! I mentioned the same when Amedeus was in a thread as Strand Street and around any bins etc is just terrible. How long would it take to jetwash these areas !! Not long . What exactly do the DC do for the increased rates . Edited July 15, 2022 by Numbnuts 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestboy Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 1 minute ago, Numbnuts said: I mentoined the same when Amedeus was in a thread as Strand Street and around any bins etc is just terrible. How long would it take to jetwash these areas !! Not long Remember the days when the Colonnade was hosed down in the early hours of a summer’s morning. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, forestboy said: Remember the days when the Colonnade was hosed down in the early hours of a summer’s morning. Every morning, at around 5am while the beach was being cleaned and the prom swept from one end to the other! I used to see it regularly with my own eyes. Strand Street, Duke Street and Castle Street were swept and cleaned last thing at night! This lot have no clue, more interested in socialist dogma than actually doing anything about anything! Edited July 15, 2022 by Max Power 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Numbnuts said: I mentoined the same when Amedeus was in a thread as Strand Street and around any bins etc is just terrible. How long would it take to jetwash these areas !! Not long Ah , but are we not waiting to recruit a services manager ? the gully sucker has a jet wash fitted and the Scarab street sweepers have sprays fitted for cleaning places like strand and regent streets which are filthy and stinking they could also take water from the fire hydrants and run the street sweeper through it , I guess the Corpy and city fathers just couldn't be arsed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha-acid Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Max Power said: Well, I have just driven across the prom, mid summer's evening, dead as a doornail and dark and miserable! The lighting is totally abysmal, no atmosphere whatsoever. Quite frankly a bloody disgrace for somewhere that purports to be a vibrant holiday destination! Apart from that, the whole town has deteriorated as far as nightlife goes. (I visited a handful of pubs, full of half wits to be honest) I'm glad I wasn't drinking at £5.00 a pint, although that doesn't seem to deter the trackies and trainers gobshites who frequent the town these nights! We're doomed! £5.00 a pint , H+B 's must have put up a pint of Okells then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 55 minutes ago, Max Power said: Every morning, at around 5am while the beach was being cleaned and the prom swept from one end to the other! I used to see it regularly with my own eyes. Strand Street, Duke Street and Castle Street were swept and cleaned last thing at night! This lot have no clue, more interested in socialist dogma than actually doing anything about anything! It's a long time since any of that sort of cleaning happened, and if you think that the previous gang who ran the Town were interested in socialist dogma (or indeed any sort of ideas at all) then you must have been smoking something strong. The area in front of the Sefton was always going to end up looking dreadful because the DoI used the same old Chinese granite and it always looks terrible after a short time because it is so light in colour. Lessons are never learned. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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