Those with long memories will remember the on going - two month battle I had last year to get the lights turned on ,down the steep flights of steps that I have to carry my mountain bike down every morning , well its getting dark again and guess what the lights are not on ………………..!!!
The edited version of last years saga was - several million phone calls by me to all the “buck passers in the world” , and after failing this , I then filled in a “near miss”
form , which basically states you nearly had an accident , so action had to be taken .
The action - well …… could that have been fixing the lights……..no way ………
The action was , and wait for this …………..
………………….telling me personally not to use the stairs……..
……..which is fair enough , but failed to take in to consideration all the other people in the world who use the stairs , and I reckon this fact must have escaped their attention in their “ back covering - haste”, and remember this is a Health and Safety Department - giving me this advice !!!.
The lights were eventually switched on , after some high level representations , but as the light mornings wore on , they were obviously switched back off , which is now a problem as its pitch dark in the mornings - yet again .
I had a conversation with our site engineer today , and eventually got to the bottom of it all , and it seems the lights in question actually belong to the police authority - yes those guardians of penny pinching……….sorry……sorry……..public safety :)
So it’s a letter to the Chief Constable – pointing out public safety - then :)
