Originally Posted by ECHOEONE

Sefton Council need to make sure they sign off on the quality of the work done before they release stage payments. The last boards replacement was a debacle which is on them for not supervising quality properly. A fool and their money are soon parted, is something the council need to face into rather than blame the contractor that the council procurement process selected.

Total nonsense. Even with all the safeguards, the contractor who does poor work is responsible.
If a contractor needs "supervising" like you suggest, he/she is a cowboy.
Bad workmen always blame everyone else. Just do the job properly.

Originally Posted by MICK/GILLY

Yea you don’t like the truth PNP, you have no answer for it apart from wah wah shut uuuuppp .

You’re stupid and very childish.

I guess it is a case of believing it when you see it. Far too many times the council has made promises and has not kept to them. In the neck of the woods where M s. Atkinson comes from - there are far too many contracts started and left unfinished.

It would be fantastic to be able to walk along the pier again and hopefully the contractor is capable of doing a good job that will last without going bankrupt. Just wait and see.

The sentence "A specialist team for the delivery of the Southport Pier refurbishment" doesn't fill me with confidence, TBH.

Sounds like a bloke whistling through his teeth and saying 'this'll cost yer' to me.

I'll believe it when I see it. Along with the new theatre / conference centre, the new 'lagoon', etc.

Originally Posted by lawed143

You’re stupid and very childish.

And you ride a bicycle

Originally Posted by The PNP

Do the maths, if you can.....

Take home £20k a year, minus £5k for owning/running a car, and that leaves you with £15k for everything else. Use a bike, saving that £5k, and you still have £20k.....I.e. a cyclist has more left in their pocket to support local businesses!

Yea but nothing to carry it home in every week and your imagination of 5k a year is well off ( in your advantage AGAIN obviously ) and support local business in what? Lycra pants and deodorant sales. Not everyone works in the same town as they live .
Yea I can do the maths, your posts all add up to bulshat.

Originally Posted by MICK/GILLY

Yea but nothing to carry it home in every week

Myself, I rarely need to carry more than two full carrier-bags worth of purchases home, which would fit nicely in my panniers anyway. It's way preferable to ending up with two stretched arms, lugging that much stuff around town by hand from shop to shop and then back to some carpark.....why would anyone with any sense want to do that?

and your imagination of 5k a year is well off ( in your advantage AGAIN obviously )

Not at all....a typical motorist pays around £200/250pm in HP, i.e. £2.5k per year. And at least the same again annually, in costly fuel/parking fees, etc. £5k per year is not hard to lose on running a car. Crazy money compared to a bike!

and support local business in what? Lycra pants and deodorant sales. Not everyone works in the same town as they live .
Yea I can do the maths, your posts all add up to bulshat.

Why ever would someone buy different stuff, because they happened to use alternative methods of travel? Coffee and cake tastes just as good on a bike as in a car - if not better!

Btw, bikes fit on trains. Saving the cost and hassle of parking and walking when you arrive in Wigan/Manchester/Liverpool, etc.

Originally Posted by The PNP

Myself, I rarely need to carry more than two full carrier-bags worth of purchases home, which would fit nicely in my panniers anyway. It's way preferable to ending up with two stretched arms, lugging that much stuff around town by hand from shop to shop and then back to some carpark.....why would anyone with any sense want to do that?

Not at all....a typical motorist pays around £200/250pm in HP, i.e. £2.5k per year. And at least the same again annually, in costly fuel/parking fees, etc. £5k per year is not hard to lose on running a car. Crazy money compared to a bike!

Why ever would someone buy different stuff, because they happened to use alternative methods of travel? Coffee and cake tastes just as good on a bike as in a car - if not better!

Btw, bikes fit on trains. Saving the cost and hassle of parking and walking when you arrive in Wigan/Manchester/Liverpool, etc.[/QUOTE]

Poor Micky has bigger blinkers than a horse….!