Nottingham... and do you love your city?

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Louis Balfour said:

Ernst Young gives Nottingham City Council a panning:

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/urg...

Whilst a First Tier Tribunal lays into the Council's money printing scheme:

https://www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/tribunal-conce...

Feckwittery at the highest level

[Square Leg]

As one of the comments said ‘predatory rogue council’.

Hopefully, one day, Mellen will get his comeuppance.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I've just read the tram system lost £20,000,000 last year.

These days about 3 million people use the tram a year.

That's about £7 a trip. That would get you the average tram journey in an Uber.

Be a lot easier wouldn't it?

[blingybongy]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I've just read the tram system lost £20,000,000 last year.

These days about 3 million people use the tram a year.

That's about £7 a trip. That would get you the average tram journey in an Uber.

Be a lot easier wouldn't it?

There was probably a good reason they took out the trams and trolleybuses in the past

[Louis Balfour]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I've just read the tram system lost £20,000,000 last year.

These days about 3 million people use the tram a year.

That's about £7 a trip. That would get you the average tram journey in an Uber.

Be a lot easier wouldn't it?

It's okay, they've just announced a new landlord licensing scheme and there seems to be some evidence that they are quite happy with cross-subsidising different parts of the business.

They won't be happy until the council officers are sitting alone in a wilderness, with no one left to pay for their lefty vanity projects.

[Fusion777]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

These days about 3 million people use the tram a year.

They sound like Covid affected stats, because 19/20 was 18.7 million. 20/21 was 3.4 million.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Fusion777 said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

These days about 3 million people use the tram a year.

They sound like Covid affected stats, because 19/20 was 18.7 million. 20/21 was 3.4 million.

It is. But on top of that the bigger problem is buses are currently capped at £2.00

[Oldybaldy17]

We didn't need the tram, City transport and Trentbarton offered a perfectly good service. I find the tram very limited and the minute there's any form of accident, on one line, the whole thing thing grinds to a halt! Why have numbers not increased now we are "out" of covid? Saying that, there's nothing worth going into Nottingham for nowadays :•(
My nearest tram stop is a mile away, bus stop 5 minute walk.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Also, 18m people are still using it, but just 3m are paying. Since they took the ticket vendors off the trains it’s just too easy to hop on and hop off.

[caziques]

I will be in Nottingham this weekend for a school reunion - not looking forward to the 30 hours of flying from NZ.

Only there for a flying visit - if things go according to plan I will be visiting Clumber Crescent in The Park on Sunday morning, where my great grandfather lived for a while about 100 years ago. He also lived in Pelham Crescent and Magdala Rd in Mapperley Park at various times.

Just for fun I will also look up a bloke I was at school with in the early sixties - hopefully he will at home.

Anybody else on here go to the PNEU school in Waverley St?

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I might be around (but I know I said that last time).

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I’m usually found in or near the Castle Pub on a Saturday afternoon (a few hundred yards from Clumber Crescent)

[caziques]

Nottingham is bankrupt I see.

Perhaps they need some more successful ventures like Robin Hood energy.

School reunion was good fun, can't quite understand how a third of my class at the High School ended up as accountants.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

caziques said:

Nottingham is bankrupt I see.

Perhaps they need some more successful ventures like Robin Hood energy.

School reunion was good fun, can't quite understand how a third of my class at the High School ended up as accountants.

I bet they don't work at the council!

Glad you had fun

Edited by 2 sMoKiN bArReLs on Wednesday 29th November 16:28

[Louis Balfour]

So what does this mean then, in practical terms?

Can we stop paying council tax for fear that David Mellen will use the payments to feed his pie habit?

[Phil.]

Nothing will change, see Birmingham who are a few months ahead. Maybe a few loony projects and anything worthwhile will be chopped. Bring in government consultants. Councillors still get paid and their pensions, all with no accountability. Not our fault guys….must be due to climate change, covid, wokeism etc. take your pick.

[blingybongy]

I will be in Nottingham tonight to see Australian Pink Floyd.
My first visit to the town centre for many years.
Hopefully I'll be home by midnight.

[mikeiow]

blingybongy said:

I will be in Nottingham tonight to see Australian Pink Floyd.
My first visit to the town centre for many years.
Hopefully I'll be home by midnight.

Aussie Pink are great! Enjoy
We booked to see ABC at the Royal Concert Hall next year. A blast from my student era!

[blingybongy]

Aussie PF were indeed very good.
Nottingham seemed much busier than I remember with everyone very young. Oh the wonders of turning 60.
ABC released what I would consider a truly great album, Lexicon of Love is a stormer

[mikeiow]

blingybongy said:

Aussie PF were indeed very good.
Nottingham seemed much busier than I remember with everyone very young. Oh the wonders of turning 60.
ABC released what I would consider a truly great album, Lexicon of Love is a stormer

It is a great album: I recall videos telling the stories too…..& their tour next year is their 40th anniversary Lexicon of Love Tour
Should be a cracking show, even if we are up in the gods with almost the last available tickets: a sell-out tour, I imagine being amongst people our age in the audience