T'was really good to watch Warwick Road being resurfaced. Then today I was out for a walk and turned the corner onto Liverpool Road (opp. the University of West London)to find that some new double yellows had appeared at the end of road. I think I have been watching too much Pingu as my first thoughts were of the trail left by a waddling penguin that had the runs after too much spicy food cooked in turmeric.Surely the council could have leveled the road just a bit before pouring the yellow stuff onto it?(I now know that you can't put photos into a New Topic message post so they follow in the next post, and of a more reasonable size.)
Douglas Connor ● 3183d26 Comments
To find the reason - look at the published budgets. The payment from the central governement to Ealing Council were 144M in 2010/11 and are 62M in 2016/17.(Detailed budgets are on the web site - to be fair the numbers are not entirely like for like).That is an enormous drop - it is called austerity. I am happy to criticise the council as much as anybody else but they have to cope with way less money.
Bart Govaert ● 3115d
Somebody else has fallen on the badly cracked paving stones.
Philippa Bond ● 3115d
upload images freepost image onlineNow that you mention it Doug, there is a car that is a car that seems to park most days on the grass in the Ascott Alloments in South Ealing. I took a couple of snapshots today from Bailey's Walk. I wonder who FA03 LOF belongs to?I know its illegal to drive or park on the grass in Ealing's parks and open spaces so perhaps there is a revenue-opportunity for super-Mahfouz here? The person the car belongs to can't have much civic pride or responsibility.
John Alan Peters ● 3135d
Now that you mention it Doug, there is a car that is a car that seems to park most days on the grass in the Ascott Alloments in South Ealing. I took a couple of snapshots today from Bailey's Walk. I wonder who FA03 LOF belongs to?I know its illegal to drive or park on the grass in Ealing's parks and open spaces so perhaps there is a revenue-opportunity for super-Mahfouz here? The person the car belongs to can't have much civic pride or responsibility.[url=https://postimg.org/image/wjvqjr6cj/][img]https://s5.postimg.org/fw48h9bl3/And_this.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://postimage.org/]photos upload[/url][url=https://postimg.org/image/gmwyn1dyb/][img]https://s5.postimg.org/6035hm5t3/This_one.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://postimage.org/]upload images free[/url]
What chance do Ealings' pavements have if Mahfouzs' own contractors park on them? Photograph shows Mahfouzs' waste contractors [arking on pavement outside South Ealing Park while collecting small electrical items from council bin.
Ealing Council Mahfools insistence at implementing foolhardy traffic measure, the monies extorted should be used to fill potholes & make good carriageways ( & footways) which are dangerous & damaging, unsafeThats a safety issue he always rolls out for his pathetic schemes, safety!!
Peter Yale ● 3142d
Hi George,Yes you are right,HMG leave a lot to be desired theyare not fully in touch with real life?regards John.
Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3147d
Dr John. I don't think that anything has been spent on the next elections. Money continues to be spent on things like political assistants in the council regardless of which party is actually in power. Ealing is said to be an officer led council so we should try and find out what the council officers, viz. chief executive Paul Najsarek and cohorts are actually thinking. I do not think that the local politicians are in touch with what is actually happening. Viz. potholes.
George Marquez ● 3148d
Anyone know what's happening in Courtfield Gardens today. Signs up saying it will be closed and despite 4 or 5 monster machines turning up no sign of anyone to operate them. They look like resurfacing trucks, but parking hasn't been suspended and the road surface is in good condition. The pavement on the other hand is dire, but these machines are too big for the pavement. I really hope it's not unnecessary work to justify budgets, but either way they are laying dormant at the moment and causing obstruction. Probably hired at extortionate rates too
Philip Slater ● 3148d
Dennis,the road and pavements are atrocious pot holes everywhere dangerous pavements,where is all the Council tax gone,wasted no doubt,roll on the next Council elections!!!!regards John.
Dr John Stolworthy D.Sc ● 3149d
RickyAre you getting replies from www.fixmystreet.com because I had understood that the Council was choosing to no longer receive the information. Do your reports show on the map? LBE have now issued their own app for smartphones and tablets. Personally I think they should be thankful for any reporting that is done for them by residents. There is a lot of paving that needs attention.There is also a very strange area at the junction of Coningsby and Alacross where the kerbstones either side of a missing or replaced one have been rounded at the ends but no edging at all put in place to contain the earth. Elsewhere where trees and kerbstones are in conflict an edging of paving stone has been used.I wish they'd take more action on making sure that builders leave pavements in a better rather than worse state than when they started.We now have some new trees that have been planted to replace the ones with fungus that had been cut down. I hope that the fungal disease is not contagious. It was a very quick replacement and the earth around was not replaced or tarmac/paving levelled where the previous tree's roots have caused damage and deformed the pavement surface.
Philippa Bond ● 3154d
I have been highlighting the broken slabs on my street - Delamere Road - on fixmystreet for several months. Nobody at Ealing really cares! The road desparately needs resurfacing where it meets Elm Grove Road and many paving stones need changing. The Councillors are great at providing comfort but pretty poor at achieving!
Ricky Kapila ● 3155d
What gets me is the sequence of works. The pavement from Spar/Meat n Shake (was Cafe Rouge) through As Nature Intended is shocking. The paving stones are broken and it is not unusual to get a wet foot! Yet the pavement right the end of Mattock Lane appears to have been replaced.Surely priority should be given to high foot fall area?
Mark James Robinson ● 3158d
The local services may have gone downhill , but Ealing would be closed without the influx of diversity officers and refugee, fmg , anti tribal officers .
Dennis Brogan ● 3159d
Options are a contractor who look after utility infrastructure, electrical supply, street furniture and highway installations.They are also an emergency works contractor for the utility companies.They have exemptions for movements of vehicles and plant required for emergency works.But like all other contractors, they are supposed to leave places as found. them so if they break a paving slab or bend a lamp post they are responsible for it's replacement.So the vehicles were probably involved in the emergency works in the vicinity and obviously cannot park blocking a bus route which is already suffering 50 min delays from the blockade at the A4. The emergency works there are linked to installations the length of South Ealing Road so may well be associated.It's a simple task to just ask the contractors as they are obliged to either give you a number for the areas overseer or inform you of the nature of the works.
Mark Kehoe ● 3159d
I suppose you should email the pics to the local Councillors. Who are Options and who is employing them and why are they parked illegally on the pavement?
Philippa Bond ● 3159d
Saturday morning pavement vandalism sponsored by Options on St Mary's RoadThis is an example of why Ealing's pavements are in such bad shape!Who is Options and why does it dislike the citizens of South Ealing so much? Midday today and a convoy of Options vehicles has parked itself around a busy bend feeding the mini-roundabout on St Mary's Rd outside the excellent Zayka restaurant. Not content with illegally blocking a busy road some pavement vandalism is on the agenda as they park up over the pavement and then there's making life difficult for the hard-working postman as he tries to cross the road, and blocking the pavement for passers by. Perhaps someone could give the Options gentleman in the green high-viz jacket with his back to us a crash course in the Highway Code, a parking ticket or two, and a course in basic manners: if you have blocked the pavements you could move out of the way of passers-by and not block it further by lounging against one of the lorries chatting to your mate and blocking what's left of the narrowed pavement blocking it for passers by.
Douglas Connor ● 3160d
This is an example of why Ealing's pavements are in such bad shape!Who is Options and why does it dislike the citizens of South Ealing so much? Midday today and a convoy of Options vehicles has parked itself around a busy bend feeding the mini-roundabout on St Mary's Rd outside the excellent Zayka restaurant. Not content with illegally blocking a busy road some pavement vandalism is on the agenda as they park up over the pavement and then there's making life difficult for the hard-working postman as he tries to cross the road, and blocking the pavement for passers by. Perhaps someone could give the Options gentleman in the green high-viz jacket with his back to us a crash course in the Highway Code, a parking ticket or two, and a course in basic manners: if you have blocked the pavements you could move out of the way of passers-by and not block it further by lounging against one of the lorries chatting to your mate and blocking what's left of the narrowed pavement blocking it for passers by.
I saw a giant sewage tanker truck stopped on the pavement on South Ealing Rd just north of the filling station/Sainsbury's local while it awaited being deployed. Similarly a builders can about twenty house north of that the next day parked up on the pavement while a man tried to get by it using a walker, the builders were working on laying a brick driveway and seemed to think that leaving the hazard lights flashing was good enough. A couple of hundred yards further north someone had parked a car (with hazard lights flashing) on the newly laid pavement on Warwick Road.Now that the traffic offences have been largely decriminalised the police can't/won't do anything and as for the council - forget it!Then there is a car that someone parks on the grass on the Ascott Allotments near the Grange School allotment entrance.
Douglas Connor ● 3175d
With all the building work that has been and is going on it is important that the pavement is checked before and after construction.It is illegal to park on the pavement yet far too many scaffolders lorries, builders lorries, skip lorries and delivery lorries do just this. I also remember seeing the Post Office lorry turning in the road next to South Ealing Post Office using the pavement.
Philippa Bond ● 3175d
I never managed that either. The pictures I posted were frightening. I gave up.The pavement problem is worth pushing though because of the consequences of bad falls. I'm still struggling with stairs after tripping on a rocking paving stone in Oxford in the summer. I was the second or third person who tripped on the same paving stone that day. The mobile pancake van was right beside it and the guy saw us.
Philippa Bond ● 3179d
Thanks Jim, the ommitting double quotes thing is worth knowing. I have discovered that it is worth shrinking the photos so that they are a reasonable size.
Douglas Connor ● 3179d
You can put photos in the first post provided you omit the double quotes around the URL. I wish they would update this terrible forum software
Jim McCauley ● 3179d
Well done for perseverance! I've given up trying with the photos.Did you see these photos of the pavements in Ealing's Southfield Ward posted on www.actonw3.com?http://www.actonw3.com/default.asp?section=info&page=actpavements001.htmThe Council decided to dispense with Streetwatchers - members of the public who notified them of any problems they saw, refused to take messages from the very useful and easy to use www.fixmystreet.com and persist with their very clunky and 5-page long reporting system. We can see all the problems - making it difficult for us to draw attention to them does not make them go away. It just makes the Council look stupid. With pavements like this the court cases will follow.
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