How will visitors get to our Ocean City?
I HAD a good laugh at The Herald headline of March 6: 'Welcome to Britain's Ocean City'.
I am afraid Cllr Tudor Evans is living in cloud cuckoo land, for a start any visitors coming down here by train will find that if there is any flooding on the tracks they will not be able to get here and they may have to commute the rest of the journey by bus.
Then, if they come by bus they would find a bus station which looks like something out of a third world country.
The place is smelling of urine because they close all the toilets in the early evening meaning that for any late night travellers especially the elderly, this could be a big problem. The site is very untidy and unsafe at night.
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If they come by car, they will find a city of potholes and a massive amount of speed cameras. This council is anti car, as it seems to want to rip off motorists for as much as possible.
If they fly they can only come as far as Exeter.
Visitors will also find a lot of empty shops, too many coffee shops and expensive restaurants (and the council is planning even more in the west end of the city) At the top of the town, we have an ugly shopping mall crammed full of expensive shops.
Go to Exeter and Cardiff to see what good shopping centres look like! The foreshore is a mess and down on the Barbican the toilets are an absolute disgrace.
We have a football team which is a joke, a £46m Life Centre which looks out of place and is expensive to use.
Of course the people of Plymouth had no say in it before it was built.
We have an incinerator pumping out muck into the air, being built in the middle of a housing area voted in by about six councillors who don't even live in the area. Yet again the people of Plymouth had no say in it. All this will make Plymouth a laughing stock.
Plymouth is a mess, and under this council and the last one too, we have been and always will be a mess.
From someone who is Plymouth born but not proud of our city the way it is now.
M ROCKEY
Plymouth
Comments
by LHPlymouth
Saturday, March 09 2013, 12:33PM
“They could get a ticket for Titanic 2...
...or hitch a lift on one of the hundreds of waste laden juggernauts (btw it was seven who voted for the incinerator but either way it was a travesty)
Instead of wasting our money on all these dead end marketing schemes that rarely come to fruition and if they do only the affluent can benefit spend the money on simple and obvious improvements. Its not rocket science.
I wish over the years I had saved all the front page announcements in the Herald with watercoloured line drawings by architects of wonderful buildings, sculptures, city centre layouts etc. I just wonder how many were actually implemented and more importantly how much it has cost the tax payers of this city......oh yes we can have a city centre like Barcelona...ummm think there is a slight difference in the climate between there and here.
There is no joined up writing in this city. How can you promote a city that is in total disrepair?
I visited a seaside town in Devon recently and it was buzzing along the promenade... a lovely place to walk along the seafront and enjoy the view, many places to sit, cafes but more important it looked like it was cared for and looked after.
Plymouth does have a lot to offer but is suffocated by councils who time and time again do not have the vision and are only interested in THEIR interests....new lord mayor prime example.
People have been treated appallingly in this city..no say, not listened to when they are able to give their opinions and having to witness the destruction of the local road network with daft lane layouts that if locals struggle to fathom what on earth must visitors think?
You can't burp in this city without getting a fine for it.... if people are to be encouraged to come here then make it easier to get around on the roads and be able to park or drop off people without paying a price for it.
This city has gone nuts. I've noticed in a foreign country I have visited there are no yellow lines everywhere, no parking fines, no restrictions and guess what, everything runs smoothly, people are calmer and the shops etc benefit.
Those who control Plymouth certainly know how to drive people OUT of the area.”