Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
at lunch time today [12 oclock]some poor oap triped on one of dovers unevan pavements,the question is how many poor old dears will fall and hurt them selves before dcc/highways come to fix the problem ie make the pavements level so no person can trip on thr shody walkways of dover.i have lost count on how many i have seen to date,please can we have somthing done soon before some old dear kills themselves.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
did you report it brian?
a lot of times, people assume that someone else has reported it.
hope the old lady was ok.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#3
There's been a flurry of white paint on pavements lately, presumably meaning that they will be seen to.
Same happened last year, nothing happened though!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
howard,it was reported police turned up 5 minutes after it happend,the lady in question was placed in a chair and made comfortable by the coppers she was smiling with all the atention she was getting.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#5
I take it all back, the County Lengthsmen are working in London Road right now!
Only a year after the pavement was marked for levelling!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
#6
It's not just "old dears"!! I don't think I am yet, quite, (but almost) an Old Dear, but I took a purler on an uneven pavement a few months ago. Bruised ego and scraped knees was all, but it could have been worse.........I might have been "commando"......................
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#7
that would be a sight for sore eyes.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#8
brian
when i said about reporting it i meant to DDC.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#9
howard,not sure on that one,but some thing should be done.useally you report somthing to ddc they fob to kcc then highways so on and so forth one visious circle.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#10
brian
highways would be the correct department.
they would arrange the necessary repair.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#11
possably but i would expect a merry dance by all partys.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#12
don't forget they would still be sorting out the pavement after bern's fall.
these things cost money
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#13
yep and theres none for dover as useall.
#14
No need to sort the pavement out after my fall, Howard - the fall took away sufficient pavement to enable a local entrepreneur to build an entire block of luxury flats in the crater. Business in motion.............
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#15
If there are problems with broken paving slabs uneven footways in town and the endless road works ,well you voters in Dover Town have had a wonderful chance to give the candidates an ear bashing .County Elections on Thursday .See if they keep their promises ???
The roads in this district are a disgrace .No sooner do they resurface a road then they dig it up .If more time was spent sorying out problems in stead of meetings and political point scoring we migh just might be happier .
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
- Posts: 3,391
#16
yep and who runs the county council?
the correct dept is highways KCC
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
- Posts: 3,391
#17
yep and who runs the county council?
the correct dept is highways KCC
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#18
Yes I know who runs KCC.I repeatedly complain about local roads and pavements .Lovely to have a high speed train link ,meanwhile elderly people have to watch their step and skirt round barriers etc .Buses get held up and our trunk roads are congested .Both my sons have to travel abroad for their work ,in fact the younger one went to Germany twice last week.
They are always complaing re the roads .
Our local officers do what they can but who holds the purse strings .
On another note I have just spent over thirty minutes talking to a resident re Housing .I explained I no longer covered that role however he knew I would listen .I gather another nameless councillors response was " im not talking to you now as Im on holiday " .Good job there was not a camera on my phone as I sat talking and making notes with just A very large towel covering my modesty .I think a councillor is on duty all the time however Im old fashioned .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#19
i always thought that i always thought that pavements were the responsibility of the district council.