Portland Street Cycle Project fiasco UPDATE

This project took another twist today Friday 3rd February 2012

Remember this is the intersection that has featured here on SGB/Q Local quite a few times from work that was finished that had to be undone and refinished, to the health and safety issues and the problems with the road closure.

Today Friday 3rd March 2012 the Portland Street part of the King St intersection was dug up again by contractors following defects to the concrete (cracking).

Below was the state of play on (Friday 11th March 2011) when it started to rain and a large puddle emerged.



But that is not the end of it..........

Shortly after at 3.40pm a yellow duck arrived and 7 minutes later 2 more ducks arrived.



A spokesman for the early learning centre said the ducks where at Lord Street at 3-00pm.



No one from the Council was available for comment but a council worker did say QUACK QUACK!

Below - Contractors digging up the road today Friday 3rd February 2012



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Could u of not got a duck or 2 doing some 'pointing' in the final pic after there lovely pond had been dug up

Just what we needed on this cold night..................a bit of humour.

This is what I love about Qlocal ...... every night when I get home I log on to see what is on the news.

You never know what you are going to read.

Never let down

I wonder if the ducks will come back every year.

Looks like the contractors are.

February not March lolz

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Today Friday 3rd March 2012 the Portland Street part of the King St intersection was dug up again by contractors following defects to the concrete (cracking).

One trusts that the contractor is being made to pay for this error, rather than the Council Tax payers having to cough up..

Originally Posted by cherie brandie

One trusts that the contractor is being made to pay for this error, rather than the Council Tax payers having to cough up..

Doubt it - SAVE THE DUCKS !!

As long as the Council do not suggest culling the ducks.

Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey





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Ducks in, OTS out!! Up the Port!!

Those ducks rocked

Save the ducks love it !!!

Made me chuckle, love the ducks.

Relieved contractors not 'ducking' their responsibilities.

N.B. Which one is Jemima?

Originally Posted by The PNP

Relieved contractors not 'ducking' their responsibilities.

N.B. Which one is Jemima?

Duck off.

Portland St. should be excavated to create a canal which should be extended to meet up with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The Portland canal could be then extended to the Marine Lake. With these simple measures and a selected breeding programme DUKWS could be reintroduced to Southport.

Soooooo its nothing to do with cycling!

Purely a materials or workmanship defect - don't suppose that sounds very sexy.

I suppose it got a response from me tho'!

Do you think we are "QUACKERS" ? ..Believe that ! ?...You must be Jocking !

Originally Posted by Wig Wam

Portland St. should be excavated to create a canal which should be extended to meet up with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The Portland canal could be then extended to the Marine Lake. With these simple measures and a selected breeding programme DUKWS could be reintroduced to Southport.

I'd vote for it ! So long as it had a duck house in the middle and a bridge
( You can get them on the ole' MP's EX's )

Wow, what a MASSIVE puddle in the 1st picture! What has the story got to do with cycling ots? And Im sure that those other pictures have been used before.