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    [quote quote=150421]The catch will surely be how long a contract they have- terminating early will clearly cost the Council and us the ratepayers of Wrexham. The only way to get out with zero cost will be to find something they have not been doing and go for breach of contract.
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    Perhaps it will hinge on some of the aforementioned issues mentioned in the April scrutiny meeting.
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    Matt
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    Kingdom Contract to be terminated in Denbighshire in August after the council meeting yesterday. Apparently Kingdom representatives themselves were “too afraid to turn up in case they were subject to vigilante attacks”.

    Only a matter of time now before Kingdom get binned in Wrexham. Their operations are dropping like flies across North Wales.

    Flintshire to discuss the future of Kingdom in a scrutiny meeting next week.

    in reply to: Town Centre Improvements #150419

    Matt
    Participant

    The difference between that junction there pictured at the A287/M3 and the A539 approach onto the Ruabon roundabout is that the fence there is planned with traffic calming considerations in mind. The fence actually ends with a clear 15 foot+ clear view of the roundabout itself and the approach of traffic coming round the roundabout towards people pulling out of that junction is in front of them to the right – so not a blind entrance to begin with and all traffic oncoming from that direction also have a clear view of who is going to pull out from the fenced road and can plan accordingly if anyone unexpectedly pulls out to speed round it.

    At the A539 approach onto the Ruabon roundabout – the massive grass mound obscuring driver’s vision is actually in positioned within the equivalent 15 foot approach onto the roundabout itself so very little chance to get any kind of advanced safety looks at the junction. So where these South East driving safety planners have decided at which point drivers should get a look at the roundabout in Wrexham, this is the region where drivers vision gets completely obscured. You then have people pulling out of the exit from Ruabon coming from a blind entrance not directly in front of the vision of drivers pulling out from the A539 approach. Those pulling out of the Ruabon exit also have restricted vision of those coming off the A539 approach. So you end up with a double blind junction situation where opportunist drivers who very much have little care or concern for slowing down when their vision is obscured racing out onto the roundabout from both of these exits greatly increasing the collision chance.

    So I agree that the example you have shown is a good and interesting idea and something similar done right would probably help in areas of Wrexham, but in this case it does not excuse Wrexham Council from not cutting the grass.
    I look forward to them citing your traffic safety example in a future council meeting where they class all overgrown grass verges across the county as an intended feature and not a dereliction of their duties.

    Ultimately there is absolutely no excuse though for drivers not approaching and pulling out cautiously at junctions with restricted views. The number of times people just pull out of side roads without looking properly (possible because they view it as too much effort) as vehicles are directly oncoming on the existing road and are forced to brake sharply is ridiculous. Or they push their car noses out as if to go and then see you practically on top of them and then they break. This happens a lot on Gutter Hill coming up from Johnstown to Rhos.

    in reply to: Town Centre Improvements #150395

    Matt
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    [quote quote=150275]The Council will through be responsible for lots of car accidents on roundabouts and junctions as they let the grass grow so high that drivers vision is obstructed.[/quote]

    Watcher, I didn’t realise just how bad things were getting until I went onto the Ruabon roundabout heading southbound this evening & the grassy jungle in the middle of the road split completely obscured any advanced vision of the Ruabon exit onto the roundabout. Luckily it was quiet & people driving carefully. But during rush hour & when people are taking it on like they’re planning the land speed record, there’s going to be a nasty accident.

    All because the council are too lazy or cheapskate to make basic health and safety seasonal maintenance to any rural grassy areas along busy stretches of road. Meanwhile in town – new bins, new lights – spending & frittering money away like the Real Housewives of Cheshire – the rest of the county can go full Jumanji.

    Also several other people started tweeting about the dangers of these overgrown road hazards. About time the council pull their fingers out before someone dies.

    in reply to: Former Bhs – worst kept secret #150314

    Matt
    Participant

    [quote quote=150312]Perhaps a large, departmental knocking shop?[/quote]

    knock

    in reply to: Town centre fly posting #150274

    Matt
    Participant

    Funny thing is no-one is going to fall for their 1980s guerrilla this is cancelled campaign. Everyone has the internet & can just look it up & see the event is still on.

    Knowing Wrexham Council they’d stupidly get it wrong & put cancelled on all the Ty Pawb event posters but no1 will notice a drop in attendance as no1 will turn up anyway.

    in reply to: Town Centre Improvements #150273

    Matt
    Participant

    It’s crystal clear – the Double Indy Group / Tory coalition has very little interest in funding any social initiatives across the county – nothing of a community or human element holds any interest to them whatsoever – unless of course they can exploit various sub-groups and charge or fine them.

    If Wrexham was a nation state I would like to liken it to a failed capitalist state but the bottom line is that it’s more like a failed Eastern Bloc state.

    An Executive Board with a perverse penchant for trivial improvements or white elephants that nobody really cares for. You only need to look at the obscene levels of rate payers money wasted on pathetic things like upgraded Christmas lights, non-functioning Wi-Fi systems, Ty Clucking Pawb (rate-payer contribution) and now spending a fortune on bloody street lights and some shit bins. They are basically making a grand old scheme of polishing a turd.

    This is exactly what went on behind the iron curtain – ooo look at our fancy public amenities, statues – this place is booming – dignitaries grinning for the cameras.

    Meanwhile here we have the reality – because they won’t spend the money on what is needed – we have those in a drugged up stupor making a complete state of themselves – we’ll be able to see them better with the new lights & they can vomit into the new bins. Homeless people everywhere & then living in tents – only a matter of time before the next shanty town pops up.

    Some of the worst performing schools in all of Wales & probably the UK – funding levels being taken to the bare bones so that basic educational supplies and sufficient teaching staff can’t be paid for. Can’t even work out how to build new schools when there’s a shortage & Groves site provides existing schooling infrastructure.

    A local health board that doesn’t really have a clue, with chronic underfunding, a critical nursing shortage, A&E waiting times through the roof, ambulances stacked. GP surgeries folding in local communities as they are not sustainable. Hospital lab tests backed up in the Maelor – so much so much of the testing is sent to Glan Clwyd.

    They want to cut the fire service in half – making the county half as safe. Not willing to even fund a Citizens Advice Bureau or discuss it with full council. Not enough money to fix all the potholes in the road months after the snow. Allowing a large corporation to completely dig up the roads for months after cocking up first time round. No new leisure centre in town as promised years ago. Cuts to elderly care, child social services – let’s take away the pittance we were paying volunteers for their hard work.

    Grass, hedges and weeds overrunning half the county as they ignore public green areas for months. MUGAs and play areas vandalised or set on fire & never replaced. Constant threat of closures to remaining local community centres & libraries. Inadequate securing of bus services to more rural areas or reduced provision on Sundays and bank holidays.

    Litter strewn along the public highways and across town, also with an abysmal state of affairs around places like Chirk McDonald’s. Plus rampant flytipping. Don’t worry though Kingdom are onto those pesky cigarette butts & blowing in the wind receipts – with added benefit of complete intimidation and harassment of local shoppers – adds to the experience – along with a game called avoid all the dog shit everywhere. Let’s also charge everyone for wanting to take a walk in a country park but also cut down on park wardens thus worsening the experience.

    They do not have a bloody clue. They don’t need auditing, the majority of councillors need to win a 1 way trip to Mars. They can form committees to deal with a colony off the planet & leave us all alone.

    My favourite punishment for us all is that we still have to wait until May 2022 before we get the illusion that we can get rid of them all & the inevitable ‘mouthing off at the council on Facebook crew’ fail to vote for the zillionth time – despite giving it large & the same old Big Time Charlies get in and we get another exciting Clr Pritchard led 5 years.

    With any mercy Trump will cause a nuclear war before then & we shall all be spared the indignity & suffering.

    Enjoy the shiny new lights.

    in reply to: the exploitation of the village of llay #150231

    Matt
    Participant

    [quote quote=150230]yes the people do normally pay at country park and i for agree with this as long as it has a toilet facilities alyn waters has not.

    unless one has tries to turn right at this junction at busy times it is impossible to comment.
    you have to get in a box “unmarked” whilst oncoming traffic are trying to turn into a similar box ” unmarked behind you.
    if a car in the oncoming Que lets you turn right the other oncoming cars undertake whilst you are turning.
    if you wait until all oncoming cars clear you will have blocked the road from all directions.

    its dangerous, badly planned and thought out. and is simply not for offhand judgements.

    and no not all communities are having large developments and those that are have had inward investment. this is not planned for llay.

    the police station will add to the traffic problems[/quote]

    I see what the problem is, the Llay part of Alyn Waters is like the back-end of the country park, I made the mistake of driving to the Llay entrance before and it did not look very welcoming so I went round to the Gwersyllt entrance, which obviously has a cafe, toilets and baby changing facilities.

    If there is a call for the development of some kind of toilets on the Llay side you should speak to the community council/ get a petition going etc…

    Again, the road issue take it up with the relevant authorities/get a petition going. I was told the best way for a dangerous piece of road to be addressed is for an accident to actually happen there. Not good advice, but road planners behave retroactively rather than proactively. Cure rather than prevention in the first place.

    Llay has had inward investment into the community – £21.5m for a new police station. The effect will attract other going concerns to the area, benefit businesses, create jobs and additional local community facilities etc…

    The traffic increasing will be police traffic, which actually calms other types of careless drivers into not driving like utter douchebags.

    Difference of opinion on certain things, but yes you should raise the smaller issues that are solvable (toilets/nuisance roads) and see what happens with the economic development side of things.

    in reply to: the exploitation of the village of llay #150207

    Matt
    Participant

    On the plus side you are getting a state of the art main-Wrexham police station so that should help reduce crime in the area.

    The other issues I’m not quite sure are specific to Llay only so don’t really think it’s being unfairly targeted.

    1) All country park users across the county now have to pay

    2) There are several ‘villages’ as part of the LDP who are now having proposed large housing developments put on them. Not happy – object in the now extended deadline planning process. Funnily enough nobody is happy because NIMBY rules apply. The top NIMBYs residing in Gatewen in New Broughton that has only just been built in the last few years. Rules are – we’re so glad that we obtained planning for our large estate but we don’t want anyone newer coming in – A case of Extreme-Micro-Xenophobia

    3) Traffic – Yea it’s pretty much busy and dangerous to turn right (or left) at several junctions in Wrexham. People don’t stop or care to allow anyone else onto the already congested main roads. Went up the Birkenhead road on the Wirral this weekend & that’s infinitely busier than round here, that they have 4-way traffic lights on almost every junction. May end up that way here 1 day.

    When will it end? Never – it’s called urban sprawl – if you live in the surrounding villages of an expanding town <*insert pie & chips reference*> then eventually it will get swallowed up. Don’t like it? Move into an even more rural area – somewhere like the National Parks where they have incredibly restrictive planning/expansion rules.

    in reply to: Row in Council Chamber #150127

    Matt
    Participant

    [quote quote=150106]Given that Wrexham’s links with the RAF are now very tenuous (RAF Wrexham is now just an enormous hole in the ground), why is our supposedly cash-strapped Council allocating money to a celebration?
    This is the same Council who are proposing to take away supported employment for people with learning difficulties, but who apparently have a “blank cheque” for military celebrations.
    We have Councillor Griffiths as our “Armed Forces Champion” – which Councillor is our “Disabled People’s Champion”?[/quote]

    Not to mention they don’t want to fund the CAB & Exec board are so shameful they don’t give full council any powers or say. Had enough of the disgusting dictatorship – Exec Board should be scrapped. We have to wait until May 2022 to even get a chance if ending this disgusting farce running our town into the ground. They’ve brought local government into complete disrepute.

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