Posted on 04-01-2010 at 09:35
IF it was a comedy called The Bridges, it would verge on the ridiculous.
A Northern Ireland construction firm informs our council that it has delivered bridges over 170 metres in length at Montrose, Scotland, a much greater distance than the span of the Derwent and can do the same for us in around six weeks.
All that needs to be done is for the incumbents in power to grow some courage and say yes.
But what happens, the old whining backsliding saving grace kept in the cupboard for such avoiding decision moments comes out.
“We must have tenders submitted” and of course planning permission must be granted.
Yes in normal circumstances I agree, but this is an abnormal situation and abnormal actions need to be used.
Forget the rhetoric by the council chiefs, the process will take many weeks if not months, visits by dozens of consultants and contractors, jaunts, meals, feasibility studies, numerous committees, a vast spending spree by the council, a further burden on our taxes and nothing happening for the people by the people we elect to do our bidding.
If this council had been in power during the World War Two we would have been finished at Dunkirk.
They would have been up all night sewing white flags. When will these impotent and egotistical council members do something for the people of west Cumbria and simply grasp the nmettle and say put the bridge up, we can’t afford to wait?
We may as well brick Workington and area up and wait for the next Ice Age.
Read original
