First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(07/02/2015 22:14)Dentonian Wrote:  They have the resources, they just don't deploy them in the right place or enforce the law when given the oppurtunity. Very much still with Piccadilly in mind, there was a news report of another "sting" on Oxford Road - funny it never seems to reach MRI - on illegal cycling. In 2x 6 hour operations, they fined FIVE cyclists for cycling on the pavement (and warned four more). FIVE (presumably £350 in FPNs) in 720 minutes is just a joke and sticking two fingers up to pedestrians.

On the subject of Piccadilly, I'm sure I read recently that the mobile police station that's become permanent near the 216/231 stand is there specifically to deal with crime in and around the gardens including incidents on buses/trams in the city centre?

Incidentally Ashton Bus station has had it's own mobile police station (tiny portacabin) for over a year now and it's common to see police officers and plastic police (sorry PCSOs) patrolling the bus station and Metrolink stop. I also quite often see officers travelling on 219's, talking to passengers etc so clearly they are still putting resources into dealing with crime on buses.

GMPs stance on cyclists using pavements is laughable. They will quite happily sit watching cyclists wizz along the pavement one day and do nothing then suddenly launch 'stings' to try and combat it - ironically I'm told they only carried out these stings after pressure from a large pedestrian group. After all they have to be seen to do doing something!


All we seem to hear and be fed these days is 'we haven't got the resources for this' and 'we haven't got the resources for that'. I've just had a letter regarding council tax. I wonder if I tell them I haven't got the resources to pay this year will it be deemed acceptable?