I was just thinking....
Week ending 10th Aug 2002
It looks as though the motorist is about to learn a lesson in economics.
If politicians don’t have the bottle to raise money for their spending, then the motorist will cough up.
The Mayor of London thinks that the motorist really does deserve a better transport system. Who else should pay?, so charge to come into London to raise the money to improve public transport. Better than raising local Taxes which affect everyone!
The London Boroughs are considering (will!) increasing parking fines to make less people break the parking rules (Mr Livingstone says his scheme will reduce traffic and thus reduce the need for parking)
Our local Borough Council have decided we have a traffic problem and the easiest way to solve it is to restrict parking facilities by price. The money raised (after paying to paint the lines correctly, install meters, pay a private company to police the situation, issue more permits than spaces available etc.) will go to offset the shortfall between Council Tax raised and expenditure.
Does anyone notice the £15000 per year of improvements our current Town Warden makes?
Week ending 23rd Aug 2002
Those of you who are paying attention, will have noticed that the rendering on the retaining wall adjacent to the steps between Chesham Road and the Hilltop Estate, has finally been completed after I reminded Mr Bishop at the Borough that it hadn’t been completed. At the same time I suggested he arranged for the lighting column to be replaced also in Chesham Road outside the new flats.
Righty ho, he says (after checking I was right!!), it will be done in the new financial year (April 2002). I am still waiting.
But never mind, remember the footpath in Hilltop Road that lasted a week? Watch out for the missing lamp column to appear alongside the existing steps next to the garages.
But how do I persuade the Borough Council that replacing the missing one in Chesham Road and those steps referred to in the first paragraph are in much greater need of lighting that the little used area by the garages? We’ve already had one death there and I know Council officers don’t like going out in the dark, but something really ought to be done!
