Another small success!

The roadmarkings that we complained about outside Oxfam have been redone to a high standard.



Lines at the top of the Market Square, Freshly done in December 2009, were clearly inadequate.

A comment on Youtube was that they had been done by a bunch of cowboys in wet conditions.

Showing the firm that had done the work, a petition from local people expressing their disapproval of the workmanship, resulted in them returning to do the lines again.

It would appear that local government are allowing poor workmanship by their contractors.

The council are immune to criticism but the contractors clearly feel embarrassed.

It really pays to make a fuss.

Thus it proved unnecessary to present the petition as had been planned

From this you will remember the state of the three month old lines in February:



Now these lines look like this:



This may be seen by some as nothing to write home about, however anyone having had dealings with our Highways Department will think otherwise. They will realise that this admission that the original work was unsatisfactory signifies that in future the quality of line markings will be up to standard.

Lines done well in the first place last a lot longer and hence save money because they don't need redoing so often.

Contractors will I believe provide good work in Ulverston in the future provided we maintain our questioning attitude.

By electing me to the County Council in the forthcoming election, I will be able to raise matters like this much more easily and thus get a higher standard of service and save the taxpayer thousands in the long term.