CallMeCurious Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 7 hours ago, Gladys said: A quick once over by a road sweeping machine can't be that difficult or expensive, can it? Not without a public consultation you don't. BTW price of a new STOP sign? £65+VAT https://www.health-safety-signs.uk.com/cgi/safety_signs.pl?id=5087&db=safety-signs 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 16 minutes ago, CallMeCurious said: Not without a public consultation you don't. BTW price of a new STOP sign? £65+VAT https://www.health-safety-signs.uk.com/cgi/safety_signs.pl?id=5087&db=safety-signs Times are hard.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two-lane Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Last July someone made an FoI request relating to airport car parks signage (Case ID 3234197). The response was that the UK gov. guidelines were used. Well, in long-term car park 1 they were not, because there were no signs at all. A year ago I declined to pay a ticket from that car park, and told them I wanted to contest it in court. They kept prevaricating (or maybe it is procrastinating) and sent me the same email again and again. But since December there has not been one - maybe they have given up. I reckon that lady whose car was broken into and towed away should find herself a lawyer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOM Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, The Voice of Reason said: But if market forces dictate that less flights are needed and those flights aren’t so much delayed or cancelled, it’s a good thing, isn’t it? I just want a flight (s) that gets me off the Island and back with some degree of certainly that it will operate. Ok would be wonderful to have flights in each direction that suit you within say a couple of hours timeframe. But I would swap that for a greater possibility that you will actually be able to make those journeys at all But market forces are not necessarily saying less flights are needed . As my earlier post points out there were nearly 6000 fewer passengers through the airport this year than last at a time when passenger numbers through other airports is increasing and the reason is there were fewer flights . It shows frequency and regular timing play a big part in peoples travel decisions. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 53 minutes ago, CallMeCurious said: Not without a public consultation you don't. BTW price of a new STOP sign? £65+VAT https://www.health-safety-signs.uk.com/cgi/safety_signs.pl?id=5087&db=safety-signs A scourer and a bit of soap? £1 plus labour. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Plus wages of the operative, the H and S overseer and the manager plus risk assessment plus plan of action, road signs, road closure etc. etc. 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 11 minutes ago, Gladys said: A scourer and a bit of soap? £1 plus labour. I think that's more UV damage than dirt, although it is filthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Just now, finlo said: I think that's more UV damage than dirt, although it is filthy. Perhaps clean it to see? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Poppins Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, CallMeCurious said: Not without a public consultation you don't. BTW price of a new STOP sign? £65+VAT https://www.health-safety-signs.uk.com/cgi/safety_signs.pl?id=5087&db=safety-signs You should set up a company to rent signs, cones and things to DOI, save them the expense of buying them... doh, someone already has! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Poppins Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 17 minutes ago, doc.fixit said: Plus wages of the operative, the H and S overseer and the manager plus risk assessment plus plan of action, road signs, road closure etc. etc. And it will need Ministerial sign off, but the Minister isn't free until 27 o'clock on the 12th of Octember 2092. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 2 minutes ago, Hairy Poppins said: You should set up a company to rent signs, cones and things to DOI, save them the expense of buying them... doh, someone already has! While working for the DOI got a tip off that they would be outsourcing such things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Poppins Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 12 minutes ago, finlo said: While working for the DOI got a tip off that they would be outsourcing such things! Seriously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 4 minutes ago, Hairy Poppins said: Seriously? Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 2 hours ago, IOM said: Well yes that’s true EasyJet took a lot of flights out In January. It’s caused a net loss of nearly 6000 passengers ( -13%) from the previous year . It’s all very well some posters saying we need to get more people using the airport but when a large number of flights are dropped by the airlines it makes that a lot harder ! The figures are fairly extraordinary: easyJet are actually a third down on last year - 8,503 pax in total. But the other airlines aren't really picking up much. The biggest gainer is charter flights. You can see the effect on a smaller scale with the Irish figures. The cancellation of both lots of Belfast flights leads to a loss of 1,105 pax. But Dublin has only picked up at most 615 of those. Some, especially those who have to travel, may have rerouted through England, but most will simply not have flown. Similarly easyJet's big drop on Manchester has lead to only a minimal increase in Loganair's loads from there and not much extra transferring to Liverpool who's combined rise is only a fifth of the Manchester fall. Birmingham certainly hasn't benefited from no Bristol and the big drop in Gatwick hasn't moved to City or Heathrow. Even the impressive-looking rise for City still takes it somewhere less than 2023's monthly average (itself a ghost of its former strength) and hints in may have been more of a problem with Jan 2023. The number of scheduled movements is down by over a quarter on Jan 2023 (to 553 from 761). So you can certainly see why Castletown is sounding quieter. easyJet's slashing of services in January and to a lesser extent for the rest of the Winter schedule may well have been caused by factors external to the Island, but it clearly had a strong effect on its services to here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 hour ago, Gladys said: 1 hour ago, finlo said: I think that's more UV damage than dirt, although it is filthy. Perhaps clean it to see? Dirt is probably the only thing protecting it. It might disintegrate entirely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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