x-in-man Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Meanwhile - the expense of ANPR cameras seems to a great idea - NOT. There's been a drop in the use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology locally to track vehicle tax offences so far this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Yes remember it well but it was not the end of a glittering career he went on to be a legend in the broadcasting world. Funny how things turn out or as the great George Formby said …turned out nice again….🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, x-in-man said: Meanwhile - the expense of ANPR cameras seems to a great idea - NOT. There's been a drop in the use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology locally to track vehicle tax offences so far this year. "Budget issues"......Hmmmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 1 hour ago, TheTeapot said: It's not great that road, but it is not the worst. Possibly worthy of its own thread, 'where is the worst road'? Port St Mary high street would take some beating, it's appalling. try douglas prom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-in-man Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: "Budget issues"......Hmmmmmm If only that department could get an extra .. oh, I dunno, '10%'?* *10% my arse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellanvannin2010 Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: "Budget issues"......Hmmmmmm I would have thought, that as it says on the tin it is "automatic" , that unless the software is being paid a salary there is little or no cost involved. If @Chris Thomaswould care to post on here the full management tree for the highways division then maybe, just maybe, people on MF could point as to where possibly some savings could be made to help with the budgetary issues?. Edited February 28, 2023 by ellanvannin2010 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Like the roads Thomas is shite. Never has a man talked and waffled so much shit, and he has not served two terms yet so plenty to come. 1 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyWolf Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 The Port st Mary road is an absolute disgrace and certainly merits winning the worst bit of IOM road surface award.( you could also back date that award 20 years) to sit alongside the villages dogsh%t award. I believe it’s been delayed/put of so long because the doi lack of skill set to do a proper job, you watch when they come to do it it’ll take months. At least the bottom of the village almost be a traffic free zone as the 5 cars in 5 cars out per hour through Glen Chas’s kicks in but when the landing craft ferry from the shore hotel to the Harbour slipway kicks in that should help. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayhem Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 The road to the shore @ Ballaghennie will take some beating, it's more a series of potholes threaded together by small slivers of tarmac. Why they did not resurface all the way to the visitor centre is a mystery. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestboy Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Still a total lack of doing the road between Fairy Bridge and Mount Murray. 😢 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizo Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Psm high street has to be the worst road on the island and I do cover quite a lot of the road network. But when you have the DoI deny the planning for the improvement of the road from the applicant the yep you guessed it the DOI. It goes to show what an utter shit show the whole department is with aptly Thomas at the helm. is Curphy still temporary doi ceo? As in temporary for about 4 years now! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 1 hour ago, ellanvannin2010 said: If @Chris Thomaswould care to post on here the full management tree for the highways division then maybe, just maybe, people on MF could point as to where possibly some savings could be made to help with the budgetary issues?. This would be the same management tree that's been cutting the coalface and services since Phil Gawne's time back in 2014 whilst remaining largely unscathed itself. Here's an idea though....we'll raise VED to give us funds to employ people and systems to catch some other people who can no longer afford to pay their VED.... Does anyone else think that there has to be another way forward, because this has all the signs of grubbing down the back of the sofa for loose change? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asitis Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 30 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: Does anyone else think that there has to be another way forward, because this has all the signs of grubbing down the back of the sofa for loose change? I think there is lots more of this to come across Government ! I am told that PSM high Street is simply too expensive to do ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 I believe the reason for lack of repairs for the bit of road from the Santon motel to the fairy bridge is as a traffic calming measure, would not wish to turn the tight twisty bit into a race way would we. I say this in jest but knowing the DOI knobheads it will turn out to be true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestboy Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 45 minutes ago, Dirty Buggane said: I believe the reason for lack of repairs for the bit of road from the Santon motel to the fairy bridge is as a traffic calming measure, would not wish to turn the tight twisty bit into a race way would we. I say this in jest but knowing the DOI knobheads it will turn out to be true. But most of the TT Course is a race track. No expense spared. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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