A hundred million reasons why building a short road between Hastings and Bexhill is unnecessary! First of all it cuts down our country-side , it trespasses on people’s property with noise and fumes. (Not everyone owns a green vehicle). People’s homes are subject to compulsory selling of their property, a piffling sum that does not reflect the true market handed out by the local government, plus the fact that a crisis of insurmountable proportions has battered Great Britain with adverse weather conditions and caused many homes to be flooded with water and sewerage.
This seems to be a problem that has never been solved because the powers that be have not provided adequate defences against the sea and rivers. We heard someone who was being interviewed on television that there was not a bottomless purse for this crisis, yet there seems to be a bottomless purse for ‘White Elephants’ and things that don’t really matter.
We heard of another one hundred million being wasted by the BBC on a project that was cancelled by them. It is amazing that so many people who have high positions of trust in Companies can get away with defrauding the public and who will be asked to dig deeper in their already over budgeted pockets? Of course the scapegoats have got to be the public yet again.
The awful thing is that the same person was trying to justify to the Government the reasoning behind the wastage of other people’s money. This I found incredible, the audacity of the man. Perhaps he thinks we were all born yesterday!
The Patch Patrol
EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL had sent out its “PATCH PATROL TEAM” to repair the roads. But as parts of VICTORIA DRIVE and PARADISE DRIVE and many more roads in EASTBOURNE have begun to crumble and also new holes are beginning to appear, they need to do it again.
The Government are always on about safety measures when it comes to drivers on our roads, but it doesn’t mention the fact that more than 70% of the roads are in a dangerous condition to begin with. If the roads had been repaired properly in the first place, then drivers wouldn’t have had to claim for damages to their vehicles from holes in the road from their Insurance Companies and the costs of repairs would not have been passed on to the ESCC to pay, then our Insurance premiums wouldn’t have shot up as much as they have done and ESCC wouldn’t have lost the money they had collected from fines imposed on the drivers on EASTBOURNE ROADS. It seems to be a vicious circle of events started by ESCC inability to make our roads safe to drive on.
Because the roads have not being properly repaired, some man hole covers have became loose from their settings and some have been shifted by the force of water because of the adverse weather conditions and the rivers had swollen and many have broken their banks and water has covered many fields as well as the roads. Is it no wonder that a transit van driver failed to see the dangerous state of the road and unfortunately damaged his vehicle beyond repair and has sustained damages to his legs and can hardly walk, has lost his business and yet nobody wants to pay him a cent of compensation. I think that is mean and disgusting.
Had ESCC kept the roads in tip-top condition in the first place none of these events would have happened.