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Title: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 16, 2010, 09:51:28 AM
Main drag (A41) going in towards Chester has got roadworks for the next 6 weeks.
Fair enough you think, bit (lot) of chaos while they resurface the road that resembles a relief map of the Himalaya.

But no, oh no. noooo:
To my staggering amazement yesterday I find that they have closed 2 lanes of the 4 to dig up and beautifully resurface the bloody pavement that runs alongside it!! eeek:
No doubt they'll be widening it too, to accomodate more virtually unused cycle lanes while they're at it. Banghead

Meanwhile the M56 and M53 are closed for 'investigation' due to an earlier accident.
Absolute bedlum chaos and gridlock all around here.
I was supposed to be going to Liverpool for a rare occurence today.
WORK!

I've had to ring them and tell them that if I set off now, I should reach them by tomorrow, and will therefore set out tomorrow morning instead.
Bloody great. Banghead
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Nick on March 16, 2010, 09:53:37 AM
Thanks for the tip. I shall avoid the area  angel1
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 16, 2010, 09:56:11 AM
Thanks for the tip. I shall avoid the area  angel1

Highly recommended.

Their quest for driving us all off the roads will NOT succeed however. cussing:
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 16, 2010, 10:28:44 AM
Main drag (A41) going in towards Chester has got roadworks for the next 6 weeks.
Fair enough you think, bit (lot) of chaos while they resurface the road that resembles a relief map of the Himalaya.

But no, oh no. noooo:
To my staggering amazement yesterday I find that they have closed 2 lanes of the 4 to dig up and beautifully resurface the bloody pavement that runs alongside it!! eeek:

Of course they do the pavement first. All the tripping Scallys will be out for their compo claim now the sun is shining.

Nobody sues the council for smashed suspension on the potholes, but ?10k for a 'twisted ankle' is easy money.
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Snoopy on March 16, 2010, 10:33:09 AM
We have had ?tens of thousands spent in creating a footpath/cycleway twixt here and the next village. Few cyclists use it and those that do swear and curse at any pedestrian they encounter.
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 16, 2010, 10:36:56 AM
Main drag (A41) going in towards Chester has got roadworks for the next 6 weeks.
Fair enough you think, bit (lot) of chaos while they resurface the road that resembles a relief map of the Himalaya.

But no, oh no. noooo:
To my staggering amazement yesterday I find that they have closed 2 lanes of the 4 to dig up and beautifully resurface the bloody pavement that runs alongside it!! eeek:

Of course they do the pavement first. All the tripping Scallys will be out for their compo claim now the sun is shining.

Nobody sues the council for smashed suspension on the potholes, but ?10k for a 'twisted ankle' is easy money.

Now now DS. Claim culture is ripe in every county in the land now.

I wouldn't mind, but the pavement concerned is rarely used anyway. Doesn't really lead to anywhere or anything of great importance. Just a pavement alongside a very very busy trunk route.
I cannot remember the last time I saw someone walking down it tbqh, oh, and it's in Chester, not Liverpool btw. ::)
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Nick on March 16, 2010, 10:39:19 AM
I don't like that road. Featureless  noooo:
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Snoopy on March 16, 2010, 10:46:55 AM
Main drag (A41) going in towards Chester has got roadworks for the next 6 weeks.
Fair enough you think, bit (lot) of chaos while they resurface the road that resembles a relief map of the Himalaya.

But no, oh no. noooo:
To my staggering amazement yesterday I find that they have closed 2 lanes of the 4 to dig up and beautifully resurface the bloody pavement that runs alongside it!! eeek:

Of course they do the pavement first. All the tripping Scallys will be out for their compo claim now the sun is shining.

Nobody sues the council for smashed suspension on the potholes, but ?10k for a 'twisted ankle' is easy money.

Now now DS. Claim culture is ripe in every county in the land now.

I wouldn't mind, but the pavement concerned is rarely used anyway. Doesn't really lead to anywhere or anything of great importance. Just a pavement alongside a very very busy trunk route.
I cannot remember the last time I saw someone walking down it tbqh, oh, and it's in Chester, not Liverpool btw. ::)

REASONS TO "IMPROVE" FOOTPATHS/CYCLEWAYS:
(i) It is nearing the end of the financial year, time to spend the remains of the budget before it gets taken back.
(ii) Cycleway improvement/provision attracts extra funding from Europe.
(iii) Anything "GREEN" is considered to be a vote winner and there is an election coming up.
(iv) Having cycleways enables local authorities to claim that they are making provision to encourage healthy living. Next they will remove the school buses as the children can walk or cycle in safety to school.

Cynical? Moi? angel1
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 16, 2010, 11:01:35 AM
I don't like that road. Featureless  noooo:

The Chester to M54 (Telford) 50/60 mile stretch is bloody ace though, especially in the middle of the night.  cloud9:
Done it in 50 minutes once. Fabulous driving road, but I see the cash gatherers of this Nazi state of ours have now taken to the skies ffs. eeek:
Speed enforcement aircraft warning signs have gone up now.

Are there no depths these bastards will go to to rake the cash in? Banghead
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Snoopy on March 16, 2010, 11:07:40 AM
I don't like that road. Featureless  noooo:

The Chester to M54 (Telford) 50/60 mile stretch is bloody ace though, especially in the middle of the night.  cloud9:
Done it in 50 minutes once. Fabulous driving road, but I see the cash gatherers of this Nazi state of ours have now taken to the skies ffs. eeek:
Speed enforcement aircraft warning signs have gone up now.

Are there no depths these bastards will go to to rake the cash in? Banghead

Nope!
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Nick on March 16, 2010, 11:12:44 AM
Snoops lives near the A55 (Ker ching)
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 16, 2010, 11:18:01 AM
Snoops lives near the A55 (Ker ching)

What's that got to do with it?

Oh, Heddlu Gestapo territory you mean?

Mrs Growler is one of their latest victims doing 36 mph last week just outside Buckley, kerrrr  ching. Bastards. cussing:
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 16, 2010, 11:21:50 AM
Snoops lives near the A55 (Ker ching)

One of the most beautiful A roads in the country, spolied by the speed infatuated gestapo in their black combat gear, black baseball caps, black sunglass's and black jackboots, strutting around like they think they're in LA ffs, driving around in their top of the range BMW estates and unmarked high performance machinery. Utter twats. evil:

Things don't seem to have got any better with this new chief cuntstable. noooo:
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Snoopy on March 16, 2010, 11:27:06 AM
Snoops lives near the A55 (Ker ching)

One of the most beautiful A roads in the country, spolied by the speed infatuated gestapo in their black combat gear, black basenball caps, black sunglass's and black jackboots, strutting around like they think they're in LA ffs. Twats. evil:

Things don't seem to have got any better with this new chief cuntstable. noooo:

They have come to rely on the income too much to change now.
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 16, 2010, 12:05:45 PM
Main drag (A41) going in towards Chester has got roadworks for the next 6 weeks.
Fair enough you think, bit (lot) of chaos while they resurface the road that resembles a relief map of the Himalaya.

But no, oh no. noooo:
To my staggering amazement yesterday I find that they have closed 2 lanes of the 4 to dig up and beautifully resurface the bloody pavement that runs alongside it!! eeek:

Of course they do the pavement first. All the tripping Scallys will be out for their compo claim now the sun is shining.

Nobody sues the council for smashed suspension on the potholes, but ?10k for a 'twisted ankle' is easy money.

Now now DS. Claim culture is ripe in every county in the land now.


No regional offence intended. I just wanted a chance to use the term 'Tripping Scally".  redface:

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Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Nick on March 16, 2010, 12:50:42 PM
You ought to come for a visit DS. My bit is quite posh  angel1

PS: Bring a gun
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 16, 2010, 01:25:41 PM
You ought to come for a visit DS. My bit is quite posh  angel1
Posh by Scally standards or more generally accepted ones?

The only council property round here is the town hall, and we would lynch anyone who threw a Waitrose trolley in the Kennet and Avon.

Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Nick on March 16, 2010, 01:36:36 PM
Ask the Hound  whistle:
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 16, 2010, 01:56:32 PM
Ask the Hound  whistle:

He thinks houses with a roof on are posh.
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Snoopy on March 16, 2010, 02:26:13 PM
I can do posh

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Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 18, 2010, 01:31:12 PM
Just come back from Chester along and through these road works, and I use the word WORK extremely loosely. evil:
1 bloody mile of thousands of cones, narrow lanes, slow moving traffic, and NOT one single Transit works van with the customary fat Irish slob sitting there in his blackened H&S HV jacket, feet on dashboard reading last weeks yellowed copy of The Sport in one grubby mit, massive metal cup of whiskey tainted tea in the other. Banghead
Absolutely NO action odf any description whatsobloody ever.

CCC West road maintainance, happy001 dept are going to be receiving a bloody irate phone call from me, useless werk shy bastards. cussing:
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Snoopy on March 18, 2010, 01:32:43 PM
Whatever happened to the "Cone Hotline"?
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 18, 2010, 01:35:14 PM
Whatever happened to the "Cone Hotline"?

Closed due to gross weary motorist tiredness and apathy.
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Barman on March 18, 2010, 02:42:17 PM
Did you see that Lord Adonis, one of Labour?s unelected ministers, found himself marooned in a five-hour traffic jam on the approach road to London?s Blackwall Tunnel...?

Source (http://aljahom.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/minister-for-time-theft-gets-bitten/#comments)

 happy001
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Just One More on March 18, 2010, 10:01:13 PM
Whatever happened to the "Cone Hotline"?

0845 7 50 40 30. It's displayed at the end of all HA's roadworks.
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 18, 2010, 10:48:09 PM
Whatever happened to the "Cone Hotline"?

0845 7 50 40 30. It's displayed at the end of all HA's roadworks. I can assure you it gets plenty of use

I bet it certainly is a raging HOT  line too ey JOM?

That number isn't displayed at our local roadnowerks, but can I still ring it and rant, hurl and vent my frustration at them?
I bet they just put their feet and earpiece on the table and roll their eyes....another screamer. ::)
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: Just One More on March 19, 2010, 07:02:10 AM
Whatever happened to the "Cone Hotline"?

0845 7 50 40 30. It's displayed at the end of all HA's roadworks. I can assure you it gets plenty of use

I bet it certainly is a raging HOT  line too ey JOM?

That number isn't displayed at our local roadnowerks, but can I still ring it and rant, hurl and vent my frustration at them?
I bet they just put their feet and earpiece on the table and roll their eyes....another screamer. ::)

You can ring it if you want Growler, but if you had a problem with your local Ford dealership, would you ring the Renault one and have a rant at them instead?
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 19, 2010, 09:45:01 AM
S'pose I asked for that really. ::)

I'm going up there again this avvy.

There'd better be some action, or else. evil:
Title: Re: The insanity of it
Post by: GROWLER on March 20, 2010, 09:41:30 AM

I'm going up there again this avvy.

There'd better be some action, or else. evil:

Yesterday, 1 mile, 1000 cones, 1 van, and 1 man raking some freshly dumped soil on the hedge side of the new freshly tarmaced pavement. ::)
Chaos and ques all around this poor individual, but he's no doubt been primed to ignore all the abuse that's being hurled at him.
Only a further 4 weeks of this utter utter utter utter ludicrousy to go. Banghead