shetlandpeat Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Yawn, you are the only one who does that really. She picking on you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlinkedstudent Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Translation please. Anyone?Yip, waffle, waffle, waffle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Yawn, you are the only one who does that really. She picking on you? Whit idda ill-helt is du pleepsin ower wi dis noo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances144 Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 1 - A school bus carrying children from Skeld 2 - A taxi taking children to school at Cunningsburgh came off an ungritted road at Greenmow 3 - Another taxi refused to go up the road because it was "pure ice". 4 - A council gritter had to be towed out of a ditch near Aith 5 - a dustbin lorry had the same experience in Skellister 6 - a truck and a bus and three cars were involved in a crash at Dales Lees 7 - a delivery truck and bus that slid two hundred yards on thick ice, and were then unable to drive off 8 - car was badly damaged after leaving the road at Voxter 9 - a two vehicle collision on Lerwick’s King Harald Street left a man with minor injuries. 10 - The last incident occurred at Bixter at 10.25am when a car left the road. How stupid does this council really think we are? (purely rhetorical, don't answer that!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ll Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Be interesting to know how many off the cars that left the road had summer tyres on. I would expect neither Scandinavian countries or anywhere else has the level of gritting we have here, but shod their vehicles appropriately with winter/studded tyres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 Apparently the roads were gritted then it rained and froze. There wasn't much the SIC could do about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getaba1110 Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 Still at £80K a day...how did it get to this? Why didn’t we put the brakes on earlier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urabug Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 Yes getaba1110 £80000 a day & there is only a population of some 22000 ! Where is all this money going ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 The SIC budget is here http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/MuckleJoannie/SICBudget201213.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoogler Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 ^^and that's revenue budget only, the capital spending needs to be added to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 notice were the lowest cuts are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavi Ugl Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 The simple truth is they haven't really cut anything. They've kloored from what's left of the frontline but the machine(tiers of management + unecessary services - Road Safety Officer??) is still in place. The mistake that has been made is that the councillors have told the officials to come forward with proposals but they simply haven't come forward with what would equate to real and substantial savings. Why?. Because it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas i.e it will reduce their empires and in turn possibly put their own jobs under threat. I think what many are predicting is true - they'll dither until the bank is finally empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getaba1110 Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 Is every service provided by the Council operating at full capacity? E.g. if a bus travels from Lerwick to wherever is full? This raises an obvious question...when should something be suspended? No doubt this been pondered and re-pondered...perhaps the pondering should stopped before we reached an over spend of £80K a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kavi Ugl Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 This is not about buses, gritters, street lights etc, etc, etc. It's about the mountain of unecessary "services" and positions("officers") that have been created within the SIC. They can try as best they want to skirt around and avoid it but until they face facts and cut that, we're doomed..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getaba1110 Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 The simple truth is they haven't really cut anything. They've kloored from what's left of the frontline but the machine(tiers of management + unecessary services - Road Safety Officer??) is still in place. The mistake that has been made is that the councillors have told the officials to come forward with proposals but they simply haven't come forward with what would equate to real and substantial savings. Why?. Because it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas i.e it will reduce their empires and in turn possibly put their own jobs under threat. I think what many are predicting is true - they'll dither until the bank is finally empty. Kavi Ugl...I tend to agree with prediction...furthermore...I’ve often said...“let’s just spend it allâ€...once gone decisions then can be made. For so long we’ve (all) kept putting our hands back under the mattress...always needing more for something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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