Promises, promises (From York Press)
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Promises, promises
12:28pm Monday 3rd September 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter
CORRECT me if am wrong, but shouldn’t the council be occupying its new offices on the old British Rail site by now?
So why the delay? And why do we still have offices scattered across the city?
It is about time the council started to meet pledges made. We have been told we will receive weekly refuse collections, roads and footpaths fixed and our street lighting upgraded, which never seem to happen.
This city needs a council that makes decisions and delivers results and makes the desired improvements, not wasting time arguing about the trivial matters.
Matters will be even harder next year when more cuts have to be made.
Gary Mitchell, The Groves, York.
Comments(6)
Ichabod76
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3:35pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Don't hold your breath for the truth !!
sheps lad
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4:05pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Scarlet Pimpernel
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5:24pm Mon 3 Sep 12
sheps lad wrote:What's the betting that they won't be in untill the new year ?
Still 27 days of September left!
PinzaC55
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8:20pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Magicman!
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2:42am Thu 6 Sep 12
We have been told we will receive weekly refuse collections, roads and footpaths fixed and our street lighting upgraded, which never seem to happen.
I think the council backpedalled on weekly refuse collections and instead have been thinking about charging for green bin emptying...
Roads and footpaths fixed? well the council think spending £12k on some white lines and a giant eraser is a reasonable sum of money, so we have no hope for good road maintenance as the budget gets used up in stupid schemes. And if a road does get resurfaced they only use chippings, the poor mans road surface, which damages car undersides and adds friction which reduces efficiency and thus increases pollution, and also only lasts for about 2 years before it starts breaking up again revealing the fractures and flaws in the road that had been masked over as a bid to pretend the road was fixed.
Street Lighting upgrades have happened in some places - such as Bishopthorpe which got 90% of it's yellow sodium lights replaced with nice crisp fluorescent white light; south bank got LED lights, as has Water End...
Scarlet Pimpernel says...
12:45pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Now waiting for a councillor to bring us up to date...... ? !!!!