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Why are all the lanes in Wick being painted puke yellow? True it brightens the place up, but .....Why? Be better to paint the front of the shops, surely.
Nowadays, safety = yellow.
You ain't even allowed into Dounreay now without a yellow jacket, so I'm told. Prevents nuclear catastrophes.
Why are all the lanes in Wick being painted puke yellow? True it brightens the place up, but .....Why? Be better to paint the front of the shops, surely.
'Not News' has a scoop!......
http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?152014-Wick-s-lanes-to-lose-their-bright-colour
NickInTheNorth
02-Aug-11, 18:33
'Not News' has a scoop!......
http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?152014-Wick-s-lanes-to-lose-their-bright-colour
Brilliant, in these times of cuts and loss of important services the council can afford to do a job that did not really need doing, not once, not twice, but three times ...
...words come close to failing me!
Yep, Another case of those in their Ivory Towers deciding on how to waste our Council Tax. And in true council style they have to go back and do the job again cos they got it wrong the first time.
"We are all in this together" cries Cameron....... but not it seems is Highland Council who seem untouchable at wasting tax payers money!!!!!
C3......:eek:[disgust][disgust]
Surely this money would have been better spent investing in tar and someone who knows how to lay it properly to repair the roads damaged last winter, before this winter is upon us and the damage gets even worse.
'Not News' has a scoop!......
http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?152014-Wick-s-lanes-to-lose-their-bright-colour
Oh dear. Yet another negative comment putting Noel's column on the Caithness dot Org forums down.
Is there some budding, journalistic, talent lurking within you Droopy or are you just, naturally, negative?
I walked along one of the Yellow Brick Lanes today. I thought it was brilliant, literally. You would be able to spot the doggy doo-doos a mile away and, if the paint is luminous, the Council would be able to switch some of the street lights off at either end of the lanes and you would still be able to walk safely. A job well done IMO. :)
Is there some budding, journalistic, talent lurking within you Droopy or are you just, naturally, negative?
On the conterary Moira...lm a positive realist.........
Kevin Milkins
02-Aug-11, 23:52
I wouldn't want to care for getting involved in a debate about the cost or necessity of this latest spend, but I am given to understand that this is a not slip surface with safety connotations attached.:eek:
I never used to concern myself about walking down any of these lanes before a safety non slip coating was applied, but now I'm walking like a geriatric alcoholic, with piles, on speed with greasy shoes on.:confused Why is that?
Dunno Kevin.
But whatever it is, call on Droopy, he'll see you down. ;)
j_1971son
03-Aug-11, 11:13
Just to add to everyone's negative comments, when it rained yesterday puddles started to form on the paths. So when our lovely weather starts turning cold it will just freeze and turn into ice, which is exactly what it does without having some overpriced horrible coloured paint chucked on it
http://www.songmeanings.net/images/icons/phone_icon_blue_small_trans_left.gif (http://www.ringtonematcher.com/co/ringtonematcher/02/noc.asp?sid=SGMSros&artist=Beatles,%20The&song=Yellow%20Submarine)
In the toon where I was born
Lived a man who sailed the sea
When he told me of his life
In a land where all are free !
So I took me to the north
Through glens so bright and green
When I reached my bonnie Week
Twas a sight I'd never seen !
They all live in a toon o' yellow lanes
Toon o' yellow lanes
Toon o' yellow lanes
They all live in a toon o' yellow lanes
Toon o' yellow lanes
Toon o' yellow lanes !
Now I've roamed both far and wide
Missed my hame how I have cried
For a sight o' bonnie Week
Wiped a tear from aff ma cheek.
But doon the lanes I'll go once more
And find a freen' at every door .
And the band begins to play
'We all live in a toon o' yellow lanes.....
Kevin Milkins
03-Aug-11, 15:23
Nice poem, Trixie.:lol:
This is a picture of one of the lanes,(Miller Lane) so that anyone that is outwith of Wick can make a more informed judgment.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm196/kevinmilkins/YellowLane.jpg?t=1312381137 (http://javascript<strong></strong>:void(0);)
Invisible
03-Aug-11, 17:17
Nice poem, Trixie.:lol:
This is a picture of one of the lanes,(Miller Lane) so that anyone that is outwith of Wick can make a more informed judgment.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm196/kevinmilkins/YellowLane.jpg?t=1312381137 (http://javascript%3Cstrong%3E%3C/strong%3E:void%280%29;)
Looks like a giant fun slide
Are the councillors in Wick frightened to go up a dark lane on their own they have arranged to have the dark lanes brightened up without the expense of installing lights.
Certainly looks bright enough to be seen from satellites
Yes Invisible it will be a giant slide in Winter when the water gets on the paint.
All I can say - typical council madness.
Went to Wick today, especially to see the yellow lanes. WOW! Looks like the yellow line painting machine has had diarrhoea!!!!
Nice poem, Trixie.:lol:
This is a picture of one of the lanes,(Miller Lane) so that anyone that is outwith of Wick can make a more informed judgment.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm196/kevinmilkins/YellowLane.jpg?t=1312381137 (http://javascript<strong></strong>:void(0);)
That looks utterly stupid. Makes the council perpetrators look the same.
grannymoose
04-Aug-11, 17:59
tis the yellow briccccck road :)
The councillors should be bbrriiicccking it for the waste of money spent on this project
nahh its a racing stripe.. fae all the boy racers that cruise the town from the round about to the turn at the parish church and back again and again and again and again..... how do they afford to pay for the petrol? *Laughs*
anyway.. wow thats bright!
The real problem is that anyone wearing a hi-viz vest would be rendered invisible.
I thought all the lanes looked so nice, and in keeping with the style of the surrounding buildings, when they were done. But this yellow paint on them now is horrible!
Metalattakk
06-Aug-11, 03:11
Nice poem, Trixie.:lol:
This is a picture of one of the lanes,(Miller Lane) so that anyone that is outwith of Wick can make a more informed judgment.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm196/kevinmilkins/YellowLane.jpg?t=1312381137 (http://javascript<strong></strong>:void(0);)
Jings, Jimmy Bain would be spinning in his grave if he were alive today to see that outside his door!
Edit: Hang on... that is Jimmy Bain's barber shop is it not? Is it not???
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z55/Metalattakk/f_doh.gif
MA, you are right! Many a time I sat in there waiting for my turn in the chair!
Metalattakk
06-Aug-11, 13:27
MA, you are right! Many a time I sat in there waiting for my turn in the chair!
Used to get taken there every month to sit on the wooden plank.
Put me off hair-cuts for life! ;)
tonkatojo
06-Aug-11, 13:52
Is this not just advertising the SNP colours on the sly.
I think it is about time the person or commitee responsible for this entered the thread to let us know their thinking and the benefits of the programme.
tonkatojo
06-Aug-11, 14:05
I think it is about time the person or commitee responsible for this entered the thread to let us know their thinking and the benefits of the programme.
It could be anti slip paint looking at the gradient in post 23 picture.
Tonks - the folks in Wick and around have been going up and down that particular lane for many many years, hail, rain, ice and not required anti-slip paint
Even a cailleach like me can manage up Jimmy Bains Lane and if he was going to be cutting my hair I'd manage up it twice as fast (even now).
tonkatojo
06-Aug-11, 17:02
Tonks - the folks in Wick and around have been going up and down that particular lane for many many years, hail, rain, ice and not required anti-slip paint
Even a cailleach like me can manage up Jimmy Bains Lane and if he was going to be cutting my hair I'd manage up it twice as fast (even now).
Aye Pat legs like a pit pony come/spring to mind, but no one in particular in mind though. ;)
Didn't think I could be referred to as a pit pony although may have the legs of one - an old nag maybe a better description.
Or are you referring to the horse/ponies/stables that used to be at the bottom of Miller Lane?
tonkatojo
07-Aug-11, 21:18
Didn't think I could be referred to as a pit pony although may have the legs of one - an old nag maybe a better discription.
Or are you referring to the horse/ponies/stables that used to be at the bottom of Miller Lane?
Nah just jesting with ye. ;)
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