triskelion

This thread is a pretty solid indication of why popularly electing the chief minister is a poor idea: People posting misunderstandings or incomplete information as absolute facts Most people don't know how National Insurance is calculated or used, but think they've got what it takes to competently assess policy Endless ranting about minutiae like wigs, or the Bishop Believing the government should be doing much more with much less, but will then complain about any cuts in services

Where he talks about investigations on his own time and the taxpayer savings; does anyone know what he’s actually referring to?

I assumed it was just his Twitter feed, but as an "NGO"

If only: https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/ronaldsway-fence-will-be-built/

His level of PR houndarey is nowhere Karren and Henderson's. A former employee of the Chief Secretary's office once told me that the process for drafting laws on the Island was: See what the Scottish Government used Failing that, see what the UK Government used Then of course CoMin will wave it through.

Then good news; it already is one.

Of course, if they truly truly serious about man-made global warming, they would laugh at your petty politically-motivated ideas and actually do something useful, like eliminating coal power stations and ending the destruction of the rainforests.

And the much, much greater proportion of drivers (ie all of them) who fail to follow the highway code and rules of the road? What of them?

My new favourite website.

I've said in numerous SP threads that Macquarie do not own the Steam Packet, and that ownership was shared with pension funds.

Yes, if only we were as sophisticated as those across the water in the North-west of England. Towns like Heysham, Blackburn and Blackpool are truly admired throughout the World.

Well its equivalent to about 50% of a year's revenue, compared to less than 10% in the UK.

In children? But yeah, probably in most of our Islands Primary Schools there is scope to introduce some kind of "walk to school scheme." Cycle lanes can be placed around the outer edge of roundabouts but, especially where lanes cross, drivers need to be more aware. I was thinking about this over the last few days - so many candidates for the Keys pledge to 'bring Government closer to the people' or 'bring accountability back to Government,' but rarely do they offer any mechanisms through which this might be done. Perhaps one solution would be to bring forward legislation whereby all proposed capital projects requiring more than £1 million must be subject to a public meeting? You are never going to get full ministerial accountability, because a) They aren't elected and b) Sometimes ministers have to do things that are unpopular, and measures such as petitions of impeachment are only going to discourage political courage and promote inaction. Actually: "The market value of the Reserve Fund at 31 December 2007 stood at £387.4 million or 90.8% of the 2008-09 objective of £426.6 million." Non-applicable. The DoT is seeking money from the capital budget to finance this project.

So the accident argument is a joke then: "The Quarterbridge junction has the highest frequency of recorded accidents on the Island. In the past 5 years from 2003 to 2007 there have been 20 accidents at the junction, mainly slight and damage only" 4 minor accidents a year! What? That's hardly anything. Cars do not approach the current junction at speed, so the likelihood of a serious accident is very small. However, if you were to, say, expand the junction...

StuartT, your fantastical leaps over mountains of logic and great chasms of reasoning are almost inspiring. Cars are here to stay for the foreseeable future, they are just too good are means of transportation, unequalled in their ability, at the very least, to liberate people from insular and constrictive communities. Far from thinking outside the box, you refuse to acknowledge it even exists and thus your fanciful dreams of an all-Island rail network are so far removed from reality that you may as well construct it out of confectionary. How buses can be judged to have failed is quite beyond me; perhaps you misjudge to role they fill. Do they not provide a relatively lost cost means of transport to those unable, for numerous reasons, to use private automobiles? The disabled, the elderly, parents, lower-wage earners, children, yound people - all are granted mobility from across the Island thanks to the maintenance of the Isle of Man Bus Company. Sure, the times may not be suitable to all, but the majority are served well enough. Perhaps you think they failed to prevent congestion? Were they ever designed or intended to? Of course not. If a car pack were constructed at the Cooil, with a lower daily rate that would paid in Douglas, traffic from the south would reduce, allowing easier access from along Peel road, and those parked at the Cooil could use a Park & Ride bus service. There parking ticket could even serve as their bus ticket as well. The aim of QB scheme is to reduce congestion and accidents, which a Park&Ride scheme would do, with out your unnecessary multi-multi-million pound rail scheme, or the DoT's Super-Duper-Wuper roundabout.