This Cesspit of a City

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This is the effect of 8 years of full on austerity aided and abetted by idiotic restrictions on council tax increases and the Government's refusal to properly redistribute between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the country. Local authorities have been cut to the bone as has community policing so everything beyond general purposes doesn't get funded. The outcome is homelessness, rough sleeping and higher crime. There isn't the money to clean the streets properly and that's not just in Manchester, it's country wide.

This hasn't happened by accident. It's happened because the Government has sacrificed public services on the alter of minimising the tax burden it places on Tory voters and Tory donors.

Even the residents of Surrey and East Cheshire are starting to notice the potholes though, so maybe people will start to see the reality of what they voted for.
 
Indaparkside said:
Correct pal hate the town centre it’s really disgusting what worries me is my daughter is 14 what’s it going to be like when she’s going clubbing or has her own children, the problem is only going to get worse I’m afraid, I feel sorry for travellers on the tram on a night time journey it’s really intimidating at times with groups of lawless youths getting on pissed abusing everyone and smashing the trams up it really is becoming like escape from New York sad to see the way our beautiful city has gone
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Mate when we were kids our parents all said similar. The 192 late bus was no different in the 80’s than a late tram today.
 
inchy14 said:
Mate when we were kids our parents all said similar. The 192 late bus was no different in the 80’s than a late tram today.
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Difference today they film it on phones carry blades high as a kite and don’t give a fuck who they attack, you wouldn’t attack a pensioner or someone on there own just travelling home I think it’s a lot worse today than when we were growing up m8
 
Indaparkside said:
Difference today they film it on phones carry blades high as a kite and don’t give a fuck who they attack, you wouldn’t attack a pensioner or someone on there own just travelling home I think it’s a lot worse today than when we were growing up m8
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Sorry don’t agree, we definitely hear more because of social media I’ll grant you but 30 -40 years ago Manchester had some shocking areas where you just wouldn’t go late at night, wouldn’t say it’s like that now.
 
inchy14 said:
Sorry don’t agree, we definitely hear more because of social media I’ll grant you but 30 -40 years ago Manchester had some shocking areas where you just wouldn’t go late at night, wouldn’t say it’s like that now.
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Years ago though you knew the plod would take you down an entry and beat you not saying it’s right just how it was, today there’s no deterrent what so ever and there’s still some areas you wouldn’t want to walk down at night
 
Indaparkside said:
Years ago though you knew the plod would take you down an entry and beat you not saying it’s right just how it was, today there’s no deterrent what so ever and there’s still some areas you wouldn’t want to walk down at night
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Used to work with some coppers who would take the scummy asbo type kids to the middle of Wales (this was pre mobile phones) when they were being cunts and dump them there to make their own way home. They'd think twice before being arses again.
 
Another mini rant on Piccadilly station (though this probably applies to most stations). Since when was it normal to charge somebody to take a leak? 30p to use the loo is a joke
 
aguerrrroooooooooooo said:
Another mini rant on Piccadilly station (though this probably applies to most stations). Since when was it normal to charge somebody to take a leak? 30p to use the loo is a joke
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Becoming the norm everywhere sadly.

As someone who almost always tries to leave any change I have as a tip (mostly because I hate having a pocket full of shrapnel) it caught me out last time I went through piccadilly. Had to clench till I got on the train and obviously the karzi on there looked like there had been a bomblast at a chocolate factory..
 
They really fucked up putting those buildings at the square. Whatever happens, if anything, those are staying. There is still plenty of room though, hell a first floor of sorts could be done. That space has so much potential for an aesthetically beautiful area as well as usable, it seems a terrible waste.

I know plans were submitted but no word since that i can recall.

If you want to get very radical, the whole square area with a first floor of sorts or vast walkways that go over the metro and bus lines (still very dangerous crossing around there if your not paying attention). Have it starting at lever street area going up so you can walk right across to barclays on the diagonal opposite or market street, portland street etc. It would have to be skeletonized so light can get to the floor and have direct light for a park bit right in the middle.

The only issue would be stopping dickheads chucking stuff from the upper level.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Had to laugh. Had a mate from down South liken Manchester to Gotham when he exits Piccadilly Station.

True enough.
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I was over a couple of years ago and turned up in Manchester for the the Championship game against Monchengladbach when that crazy storm rolled in and rained the game off. I remember saying to my mate that Manchester looked like Gotham with the lightning and dark skies
 
idahoblues said:
I was over a couple of years ago and turned up in Manchester for the the Championship game against Monchengladbach when that crazy storm rolled in and rained the game off. I remember saying to my mate that Manchester looked like Gotham with the lightning and dark skies
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The Gotham hotel is defo the sort of place Batman would have dodgy meetings with police officials.

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having lived in fallowfield for 3 years, have to say the rubbish collection is dreadful, communal bins regularly overflow and the excess is left to accumulate. our situation got a lot better after they provided our flat with personal bins.

on another note the council need to increase the variety of plastics it can recycle, truly pathetic.
 
manygoose said:
having lived in fallowfield for 3 years, have to say the rubbish collection is dreadful, communal bins regularly overflow and the excess is left to accumulate. our situation got a lot better after they provided our flat with personal bins.

on another note the council need to increase the variety of plastics it can recycle, truly pathetic.
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Problem with plastic, even though it may be ‘recyclable’ it may not be recycled at all. At present there’s just no money in it to sell on. It’s cheaper to make a lot of plastics from new.
 
Moving out of Manchester into Cheshire just before my daughter was born six years ago was the best thing I did and I know plenty of people who have done the same. Every time I get back to Manchester and walk across Piccadilly it seems to be getting worse. It has got to the stage that I won’t even go anywhere near the place when the kids are with us. The place is a tip and people of their tits on spice everywhere. Looks like the council seems to think that it can close its eyes to the problems and they magically disappear. Not exactly a great advert for Manchester.


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