Amadeus 2,455 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Closed. Taking bets on how many people will try and go through here anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andy Onchan 4,131 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Traffic backed up through Onchan village past the Commissioners office this morning at about 08:15, as well as Avondale Road level with the entrance to Village Walk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
De nada 85 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 39 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said: Traffic backed up through Onchan village past the Commissioners office this morning at about 08:15, as well as Avondale Road level with the entrance to Village Walk. It's just the 'new normal'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
slinkydevil 4,722 Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 1 hour ago, De nada said: It's just the 'new normal'. 'New Manx Normal' - Howard Quayle, 2020 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Newbie 855 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) 16 minutes ago, slinkydevil said: 'New Manx Normal' - Howard Quayle, 2020 It won’t be long now before the DOI will have made a bigger impact on our fractured economy than Covid. Just when everyone thought it was safe to go back earning there’s the DOI shutting down almost the whole of our central business district for commuters and making to easier for people to still stay at home and not spend money in town. They really should just put the whole senior management team in a big boat in Douglas Bay and then scupper the bastard. Edited July 15, 2020 by Mr Newbie 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GD4ELI 2,741 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Road closed but still 20 mph max speed? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Max Power 6,439 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NoTail 1,969 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Walked down there this afternoon. I noticed that the groins in the beach have all been grubbed up. Anyone know what this is all about? They were in a very poor state but nevertheless not doing any harm by being left to rot. This must have cost a good few thousand of pounds so someone somewhere must have thought this was a good idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MadAsHell 146 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, NoTail said: Walked down there this afternoon. I noticed that the groins in the beach have all been grubbed up. Anyone know what this is all about? They were in a very poor state but nevertheless not doing any harm by being left to rot. This must have cost a good few thousand of pounds so someone somewhere must have thought this was a good idea. http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=56670&headline=Removal of groynes given green light§ionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2020 Good job they're not short of money eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyWolf 403 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Maybe to make way for 24 Andrew Gormley cast iron statues of our Mhks like Crosby beach now that’s an idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTeapot 9,878 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 24 statues of Golfer, staring wistfully to England. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
majkul 8 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 By the time the millions of tourists can come over and enjoy the new and improved promenade, most businesses will probably have shut down because of all the incompetence surrounding the whole shebang. As for now, imagine Guernsey residents excitedly booking their flights to the Isle of Man, only to find out that they have ended up in Beirut instead! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beelzebub3 389 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 I had a walk along Douglas promenade on Monday morning, I counted at least 30 varied machines along the route, of the 30 machines 4 were actually doing anything the rest still had rust on the tracks/drums, the teams mostly a couple of men at several sections along the route were busy on the mobile or talking through the fence panels currently installed, I hope that the "tourist's" either here or en-route from Guernsey are not billeted in the hotels on the Douglas promenade as they will never come back and to be fair if I was allocated a hotel along the prom I would demand my money back and tell my friends never go to the IOM as they still have the fences up from the WW2 for the POW's. The CM needs to get his arse into gear and get that f^^king shambles sorted mighty quick as IMO if that the best we can offer tourist's or locals wanting a stroll we are well and truly f^^ked, I would go up to the Sea Terminal and drag Black and Robinson on site and get them to explain what the f^^k is going on. I was in Blackpool while the were doing the prom and I assure you the site was handled professionally and done with sympathy to support the Hotels/ Boarding house's and Business's along its route if it had not be done like this they would have strung the councillors by the bollox if they had left a mess like we currently have, nothing is finished or even close to being finished, its a long winter here and if that work is to be completed by 1 April I will eat my hat. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andy Onchan 4,131 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 21 minutes ago, Beelzebub3 said: I had a walk along Douglas promenade on Monday morning, I counted at least 30 varied machines along the route, of the 30 machines 4 were actually doing anything the rest still had rust on the tracks/drums, the teams mostly a couple of men at several sections along the route were busy on the mobile or talking through the fence panels currently installed, I hope that the "tourist's" either here or en-route from Guernsey are not billeted in the hotels on the Douglas promenade as they will never come back and to be fair if I was allocated a hotel along the prom I would demand my money back and tell my friends never go to the IOM as they still have the fences up from the WW2 for the POW's. The CM needs to get his arse into gear and get that f^^king shambles sorted mighty quick as IMO if that the best we can offer tourist's or locals wanting a stroll we are well and truly f^^ked, I would go up to the Sea Terminal and drag Black and Robinson on site and get them to explain what the f^^k is going on. I was in Blackpool while the were doing the prom and I assure you the site was handled professionally and done with sympathy to support the Hotels/ Boarding house's and Business's along its route if it had not be done like this they would have strung the councillors by the bollox if they had left a mess like we currently have, nothing is finished or even close to being finished, its a long winter here and if that work is to be completed by 1 April I will eat my hat. It won't be finished by 31/3/2021. The road might be open but there'll still be loads of street furniture, property/hotel curtilage areas, pavements and other installations to be finished. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Non-Believer 12,584 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 I drove along the prom (pavement) today about 2pm, from Victoria St down to Greensills, first time I've been down there for a while tbh. In that stretch I lost count of the number of hi viz clad workmen sitting dangling their legs on the edge of trenches playing with mobile phones or messing with tape measures. There just doesn't seem to be any motivation or sense of urgency on the job at all. Nothing. No work of any substance being achieved. Given the political heat you'd think somebody would be cracking the whip? 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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