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Flooding in Blackpool. Again.
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21-03-2013 11:02pm#1
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College road is up a hill surely? Do you mean the western road?
lol thats what i said too, but no they said college road had so much surface water it was impassable,AugustusMinimus wrote: »This is most certainly not the case.
thanks, i was sceptical too but 96fm were announcing it was.
its the same old ****e in blackpool, the council put in a culvert that cant handle the amount of water that needs to go through it during heavy rains. They refuse to do anything about it. Sure it took them over a year to fix the quay walls.
I feel sorry for the people in blackpool.
thats so true, they managed to sort the culvert in Douglas out and we had no flooding this time, so the question now is why the hell won't they do something about the blackpool one???0 -
hoodwinked wrote: »lol thats what i said too, but no they said college road had so much surface water it was impassable,
thanks, i was sceptical too but 96fm were announcing it was.
The drains on College road have been blocked for weeks outside the gates if UCC, anytime there is rain, the water backs up by the speed ramps/crossings, usually resulting in pedestrians getting splashed as cars come off the ramp.
I wonder who is to blame for that................
Cork City Council and even worse council that the Cork County Council. They use the same excuse all the time, it was an exceptional amount of rain, a once off event, we didn't know there would be this much rain.0 -
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Do they actually look out their windows at City Hall at all?
This is one of the wettest parts of Western Europe.
Heavy rain is to be expected, and is very regular!
We need the appropriately sized drains to deal with these kinds of deluges. They're not unusual occurrences.
The city has been flooding for as long as it has existed. There are paintings of it flooded in previous centuries.
People really need to pay attention at the next local elections and demand action on this.hoodwinked wrote: »lol thats what i said too, but no they said college road had so much surface water it was impassable,
thanks, i was sceptical too but 96fm were announcing it was.
thats not true, they managed to sort the culvert in Douglas out and we had no flooding this time, so the question now is why the hell won't they do something about the blackpool one???
From what I can see it's just pure class-discrimination. Douglas is a wealthy, influential suburb.
On the Northside if there were some kind of Montenotte landslide or something, you can be damn sure it would be sorted out in a few weeks.
Blackpool's just ignored most of the time from what I can see.
The Shandon area & Blackpool village are just starting falling apart.
Given that Shandon's supposedly the main tourism area of the city, you'd really think they'd get their act together and sort it out.
I wouldn't really put it into a Northside vs Southside thing. It's more just about wealth and influence and ability to kick up a huge stink.
There are similarly ignored areas on the South side e.g. Barrack Street (until recent refurbishment), Douglas Street area, and that entire part of the central island opposite Union Quay which seems to be semi-derelict, despite being within a stone's through of the South Mall.
The residents of Blackpool need to get onto every journalist, paper, media outlet and make a LOT of noise about this. It won't get fixed otherwise.
If people aren't flood-insured, this is going to result in a lot of abandoned, derelict buildings in Blackpool this time, especially if they're leased commercial buildings / rental accommodation as people will just move out.0 -
From what I can see it's just pure class-discrimination. Douglas is a wealthy, influential suburb.
On the Northside if there were some kind of Montenotte landslide or something, you can be damn sure it would be sorted out in a few weeks.
Blackpool's just ignored most of the time from what I can see.
The Shandon area & Blackpool village are just starting falling apart.
Given that Shandon's supposedly the main tourism area of the city, you'd really think they'd get their act together and sort it out.
I wouldn't really put it into a Northside vs Southside thing. It's more just about wealth and influence and ability to kick up a huge stink.
There are similarly ignored areas on the South side e.g. Barrack Street (until recent refurbishment), Douglas Street area, and that entire part of the central island opposite Union Quay which seems to be semi-derelict, despite being within a stone's through of the South Mall.
The residents of Blackpool need to get onto every journalist, paper, media outlet and make a LOT of noise about this. It won't get fixed otherwise.
If people aren't flood-insured, this is going to result in a lot of abandoned, derelict buildings in Blackpool this time, especially if they're leased commercial buildings / rental accommodation as people will just move out.
i agree, and last nights front page of the evening echo says it all....
it isn't a northside v southside thing, to be fair if you take childrens play area's the northside has an abundance of them, tell me the nearest play area if you live in bishopstown,
it seems to me money is being allocated both sides of the lee in the wrong areas, in Douglas/bishopstown it goes on developing the shops/buildings/culverts.
in blackpool it goes on play areas and clubs when the opposite for both is needed
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hoodwinked wrote: »lol thats what i said too, but no they said college road had so much surface water it was impassable,
thanks, i was sceptical too but 96fm were announcing it was.
thats not true, they managed to sort the culvert in Douglas out and we had no flooding this time, so the question now is why the hell won't they do something about the blackpool one???
How is not true, this has been going around in circles for years.The culvert in blackpool is 4 meters wide ( it needs to be twice that.. at least)and it never gets cleaned out. Add the fact they dumped a load of stone into the river near to blackpool to "strengthen" the wall... all they did was make the river more shallow. Its retarded.. the clowns in charge of this clearly have no idea what they are doing.
In douglas when you have the likes of dunnes etc getting flooded they do something about it.... blackpool is homes and few small businesses0 -
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