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.......

Ok so Robbie may well still be an A Lister and we cannot for one minute work out just how the hell they got him to switch on the 2010 Illuminations but, despite the fact we will always be grateful to him for this kind act, we have to admit that his new single with Gary Barlow is poorly written cheesy Shite! Soz but it is. Any problems with this can be relayed to mailto:mrwirrall@aol.comStrange that a local business should appear to adopt the motto "Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil when it comes to the local council and it's representatives ….especially when that business turns out to be the Local Evening Paper and they appear to be ignoring some juicy scoops worthy of front page headlines…..or are we mistaken?..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….What was the name of that band who had a hit with "Lilly The Pink"?

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!

The new "Ramp Of Death" experience recently installed on South Promenade by the newly created "St Chads Headland" (or Tarmacadan Point as it is locally called )claimed its first victim last week after an as of yet unnamed 23 year old motorcyclist died after losing control of his bike seconds after hitting the unmarked "Ramp Of Death" which resulted in him being catapulted into the air and subsequently colliding, bike less, into a oncoming taxi. The recent addition of this unmarked obstruction including a curb measuring a quarter of the carriageway and two inches high had already resulted in numerous minor incidents where motorists front nearside tyres burst after they collided with the unexpected mid lane obstruction. The day following this tragic event council workers put temporary signs up warning traffic of the danger and 2 days later posts were in place to add to the warnings but we feel are totally inappropriate for the danger that lurks. The Evening Gazette yet again failed to question or criticize the council on this matter and are rapidly ruining out of reasons why anyone should bother to continue to buy it. That ramp caused the death of a young man on his way home from work that night and what was the headline in the paper the very next day? " Robbie Tickets On Sale On Ebay"!! We could have written that headline ourselves the day the tickets were announced! Get your heads out from your arses Gazette reporters and look at what the council are really doing behind taxpayeras back you Muppets, Headlines A Plenty!

Work starts this week on the new traffic calming measures on Central Drive around Bethesda Square The idea is for the new measures to ensure that traffic flows at around twenty miles an hour. We can only assume this is so as the kerb crawlers can blend in with all the other traffic thus not distracting visitors away from the family friendly image of the town as this is now a curb crawling hot spot as prostitutes parade themselves along this stretch of Central Drive day and night, so much so that the the bit by Yorkshire Bank has been names "Snatch Corner".