The continuing saga as to weather or not to keep St Johns Sq in the centre of Blackpool traffic free leads us to only one conclusion….Blackpool Borough Council have absolutely no idea when it comes to local transport planning. Other signs that the council is inept are the closure of the Church Street /Prom junction for no apparent reason at all, the resulting mayhem in Talbot Square following the moving of the taxi rank to the main offloading area leaving taxis with nowhere to offload and the new right turn cutting straight across the middle of the square, a route used by what appears to be mainly Kamikaze Bus Drivers unable to use Church Street leads us to believe that those in the local transport planning department at the council either have a massive drugs problem or they are all barking mad! In the case of St Johns Square, you cannot un invent the motor car no matter how hard you try and in the case of Talbot Square, lay off the hard stuff and open a few more junctions before someone gets killed!

It would appear to be a case of "No Holds Barred" when it comes to the un relentless hypocrisy of Blackpool "Barmy" Council in relation to Public transport consumer safety and comfort, not to mention that "Family Friendly" image when members of the public are faced with a choice when it comes to using public transport in the resort. On the one hand it is seeking to implement harsh age restriction policies on taxis and private hire vehicles during the worst recession in over sixty years while at the same time it's own bus company is , according to press reports, so badly maintained that mushrooms have been discovered growing out of the seats inside some vehicles posing a possible danger of poisoning to its customers (subject to laboratory testing). Add this information to the fact that a lot of the resorts roads are full of pot holes and in very poor condition it makes you wonder just what in the hell they think they are playing at. .....Gazette Story.......

Dont know about you but I did really well this weekend as it was Lytham Club Day and I now have my "Fylde Friendly " white plates on doard!!........Thank God For The England Cricket Team .........We are currently reporting Blackpool Barmy Council to anyone who will listen (and thats a list thats getting longer) regarding their shameful wasting of taxpayers money on everything from useless courses to ill thought out road schemes ….we will keep you posted….

Kensington Developments have already expressed an interest in building up to four hundred "Town Houses" plus thirteen "Affordable New Homes" and a "Tesco Express" on the empty gap created in Blackpool town centre in five years time following the sad collapse, fire, compulsory demolition, bankruptcy (delete where applicable) of the Blackpool Winter Gardens due to years of neglect by it's current owners (Blackpool Borough Council). A spokesman for the Kensington say parking for this ambitious project could be incorporated in the plans to turn the area that used to be the heavily loss making Blackpool Tower into a multi-storey car park just as soon as they sell the last bit of metal to what they hope will be a rising Chinese scrap metal market by then. Kensington Developments deny slipping a crisp twenty pound note into their company Christmas card to the council in the hope that they will be that desperate to offload the two properties and would put them in first place for the project saying that in the current market "A McDonalds Happy meal and the promise of a free dance at "Eden" by "Big Erica" would be overpricing the value of the venture". Blackpool council refused to comment yesterday stating they were waiting for the results of a new "Feasibility Study" carried out by some blokes with letters after their names at enormous cost to local council tax payers. They are also said to be setting up a new multimillion pound (costing) company "Re Blackpool Winter Gardens Gap and Tower Fall Down" in an attempt to regenerate the regeneration of Blackpool and it's newly pedestrianised St Johns Sq/super fast bus lane/walk of death. Blackpool Borough Council denied they were throwing council tax payers money down the drain on ill thought out and badly designed projects stating that they spend hundreds of thousands of pounds every year employing experts from all walks of life, some of whom have actually visited the resort at least once during their lives!

Following reports in the media that some councils in the UK might be running low on grit for the roads during the latest cold snap, you knew, you just bloody knew that if any council was going to run out of grit Blackpool Barmy Council would be one of the first to admit defeat and what do you know, and lets face it you could have put your mortgage on it, while the rest of the country had a couple of feet of snow yet still managed to make the salt and grit last, we here in Blackpool managed to run out, despite the snowfall being about an inch thick in most places and that was forecast at least a week before it arrived! Perhaps if the council spent less time sticking their noses into other peoples business and concentrated on their own departments things might not have been so embarrassing for the town news wide!

For as long as anyone can remember Blackpool Hackney Plates have been blue. You knew, I knew it and the punters knew it. It`s an easy way for the likes of lone female passengers to distinguish a real Blackpool Hackney Carriage from a potential "Bogus Taxi" lets not forget the poor girl who was raped after getting into what she thought was a real cab but turned out to be bogus only a few years ago. Now, for reasons we cannot even begin to speculate, someone who, we can only assume, miraculously finds themselves in the decision making department of Licensing decides, after all these years and despite the threat of confusion to members of the public, to change the bloody colour. Now, as if that wasn't bad enough, and let's be honest here it's not a good idea, there are two colours these hackney plates can under no circumstances be allowed to be changed to, those colours are Yellow, Wyre colours, or White, Fylde colours. Guess what colour they are…give in?.....~ #cking White of course! The level of intelligence displayed in this uncalled for change beggars belief! Oh and while your sat on a rank doing nothing cos there's no work have a closer look at the new plate on the cab in front or behind cos we've never seen so many mistakes regarding colour of vehicle and type etc..and they require changing every year! Balls to the environment!