Comments on Save Daly Way Green!: Construction disruption: the reality

Its outrageous and it is time the Council stepped ...

2008-03-18T19:09:00.000Z

Its outrageous and it is time the Council stepped in and sorted out this situation once and for all.

Where is the Council Leadership

When asked how they were going to reinstate the gr...

2008-03-18T14:34:00.000Z

When asked how they were going to reinstate the green I was told they would just reseed it and wait for the grass to grow, that it would take 9 - 12 months at least before it could be used.

I then asked why don't you returf it so we can start reusing as soon as possible.

The reply came back that it was too expensive, and they would have to maintain it and water it etc to get it established.

The penny then dropped, Thames Water don't do Maintenance as they have already demonstrated that in this area on a number of occaisons in the past 18 months.

24 hour working on Tring Rd for a few weeks is not...

2008-03-18T13:48:00.000Z

24 hour working on Tring Rd for a few weeks is not acceptable, so we are told. However 24 hour working/dewatering for months is acceptable on the green, according to TWU.

On TV last night, a TWU spokesman said record rainfall last year had caused flooding in the case under question, however according to TWU when discussing the lack of flooding in the Tring Road area, last year did not have record rainfall .

Talk about double standards, these people are just making it up to suit whatever circumstance they are talking about.

Their lack of customer support and liason also took a hammering. Best they could manage was an reluctant apology after a TV company had cornered them, months after their customer had suffered flooding. Poor devils had had to cope and clean up the sewage flooding themselves, TWU didn't even respond to their phone calls. Disgusting !!

"Never let the truth get in the way of justifying our position" seems to be the TWU motto. We can always apologise afterwards if the going gets rough and newsmedia gets involved!!

Well, perhaps Thames Water would like to come and ...

2008-03-18T07:29:00.000Z

Well, perhaps Thames Water would like to come and explain to us how they can justify what they want to do.

The scale of this work beggars belief. How are we supposed to live around here while this is going on?

When I asked about the bins on Friday, I was told ...

2008-03-17T22:58:00.000Z

When I asked about the bins on Friday, I was told that if the bin lorry arrived and couldn't get through at any point, the workmen on site would move all the bins/recycling baskets to the end for them to be emptied.
I find it hard to believe that the workmen would suddenly down tools and start moving several dozen bins, not to mention multiple recycling baskets for every household in Daly Way, Smith Close and Wheeler Close.
In any case, are they going to have someone on site all day on a Monday looking out (from behind their 6ft fence!) for the bin lorries, in case one arrives whilst the site is inaccesible?
Even if they spot it, stop everything and move the all the bins immediately, are the bin men going to sit politely and wait whilst they do so? I don't think so, do you?!
It would be laughable if they didn't expect us to be reassured by this unrealistic scenario!
Not actually sure where they'd fit this many bins anyway. In their big hole, maybe...

In addition, even if we make the bold assumption t...

2008-03-17T21:50:00.000Z

In addition, even if we make the bold assumption that TWU re-instate the green afterwards, its likely to take a year to recover and become useable for residents.
The reality is we probably lose the green for 2 years if this project goes ahead