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Isn’t this a well used tactic to say “we did a consultation but hardly had any responses”?
The server for the budget consultation is down at the moment so I can’t do that. I think one of the proposals is to reduce the hours of the call centre – the one that is already closed when most people get home from work and need to report that their bin hasn’t been emptied…
[quote quote=118397]most people dont contact the council with their complaints. They will rant and rave on social media and forums. ok so your bin has been missed, tell your friends and your family and whoever else is watching but i bet none of them will empty it for you. Phone the council! How can they send someone to empty it if they dont know.[/quote]
My bin was half emptied on Monday (the bin men fished the black bag out but left everything else!). I reported it to the council online on Monday and I’ve heard nothing other than getting an automated acknowledgement.
Maybe I should’ve ranted and raved on social media instead :)We don’t have the new boxes, but the people at the bottom of the road do.
We are on a different rota to the houses at the bottom so maybe they have given the boxes to the A rounds but not the B round? (or vice versa).
Do the new boxes get emptied into a different sort of wagon? If they do, maybe they are waiting for the new wagons to arrive to cover elsewhere.Toiledau cyhoeddus = public toilets?
Not an exact translation of the English but seems OK to me unless I’m missing something?
I thought the ‘standard’ Mountain Warehouse on Eagles Meadow closed and they opened an ‘outlet’ store at Island Green instead. Sounds like they’re swapping back to the standard format.
Doesn’t that just mean that you can take it to court if you want? (where you can be fined more if you are convicted).
[quote quote=116172]Sad news for all the employees.
But now Wrexham council need to restore as many of these lost services / bus routes as possible, and soon, mainly Wrexham Ind. Est. Lots of people rely on that service, and considering it is one of the biggest industrial estates in Europe the public transport service to and from there has always been dire..
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Maybe see if Arriva will extend some of their routes to the industrial estate (maybe the number 5 route that they have taken over), even if it’s just in the morning/evening peak?
Were there going to be any extra bus services to serve the prison anyway?[quote quote=113347]The Executive Board (call them the Cabinet) make decisions on policy and action. Once these are made public a request can be made for them to be sent to the Scrutiny Committee (call this ‘the Lords) for review. [/quote]
How do the public find out about such policy changes? Do you just have to attend the meetings or find the meeting minutes afterwards?For example:
- There are no longer quantitative measures for when a pothole needs to be repaired, and no prescribed timescales for fixing potholes. (It used to be “potholes greater than 50mm deep in carriageways and greater than 25mm deep in footways and cycleways are repaired within 72 hours”)
- If your recycling is not collected the bin men will not come back and collect it – you have to wait until the following week.
This is what I’ve been told in responses to complaints to the council – so possibly someone fobbing me off but it wouldn’t surprise me that things like that have been changed on the quiet.
[quote quote=113353]The decisions are already made prior to any councillor even seeing proposals. The tail wags the dog in Wrexham.[/quote]
This is definitely the impression I get. On one hand we’re being told the council need to save money, but then they throw it away on what seem to be someone’s pet project.
To be honest, I don’t think Wrexham is the exception here. Having lived/worked in a few different areas – it seems to be a UK wide problem.[quote quote=112694]Got to agree fully with this ( of course not the patience part ). Very often we see speed limits being reduced due to an “accident black spot” or so called “dangerous stretch of road”. Its the drivers not the road or the speed limit.[/quote]
I’ve always wondered how reducing the speed limit after a crash stops it happening in future when the person was speeding before the limit was reduced.The “mysterious road” has always been there – it was the cycle path up to Gatewen which was brought up to the same level as Croesnewydd Road when they demolished the bridge. It’s now a road to the new Moneypenny office like dagg says.
The traffic lights were promised years ago when the bridge was demolished and the cycle path would have to cross Croesnewydd Road (rather than going under it) to get to the section through the hospital car park.
