THE school holidays are upon us and once agin this means gangs of teenagers, loitering with intent, on street corners, hiding on the rear and sides of moving trams, waiting to ambush trams, intimidate people at tramstops, notably at Central Pier, Gynn Square, Little Bispham, Thornton Gate, Heathfield Road and Lingfield Road tramstops.
Concurrent with the council encouraged, as it swells the council coffers, yob loot binge drinking hen-stag party culture, along with Whitehall-Parliament grants for DSS hotels, bail hostels, asylum seekers, courtesy of non-elected mandarins in Whitehall.
Not forgetting the anti-social behaviour, even on all buses and trams, the underage binge drinking, of these so called teenage disco nights at the Pleasure Beach. No action isa ever taken. Police cannot enforce the law, do not want to only apply for laughable ASBOs.
Blackpool Transport is too busy number-crunching, accounting and profit, before providing extra trams on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays .
No security on any tram, at any tramstops, security officers on every train, cctv at all stations and on trains, the Merseyrail electric rail franchise. Similar permits on within the Greater Manchester Metrolink, Stagecoach Sheffield Supertram, Nottingham Express Transit tramway, Croydon tramlink, also the vast London underground.
A stony silence also from the bus orientated TGWU clique within as well, indeed a clapped- out tramway managed poorly.
Once again, as previously stated, a regular user of the Blackpool-Fleetwood tramway, you travel at your own risk, amongst the juveniles, teenagers, yobs, louts, binge drinkers, hen-stag party gangs, along a tacky promenade, the rundown streets of Fleetwood. On your journey you can play the game 'spot the policeman'.
Maybe observe your tramdriver, cleaning windows en route, or a rather obese tramdriver asleep in his cab or stopping en route for fish and chips, Kebab pizza shops and running late in the bargain! In future will take the car, it's safer.
K Cathpole, Devonshire Road, Blackpool
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