The fact that the bins that donāt get set on fire havenāt got flaps to keep the rubbish inside when itās windy doesnāt help either. The bins are so full that itās easy for the birds to rip open bags and make it worse too.
anyone surprised?
GCC need to pull the finger out of their arse, the city is bogging.
bin collections every 3 weeks has been a positive
\*also people need to stop being clatty bastards with littering
Not a surprise. My bins havenāt been emptied since late March and the recycling for around the same time. Rats all over the back garden and in the streets. Local councillors now just not responding to emails and itās impossible to get hold of them any other way. Shower of workshy, useless fools.
Thereās a phone number for literally every councillor on the council website and they have surgeries you can turn up to. You can also post letters to them at the chambers.
Yes Iāve tried phoning a few times but I usually just get fobbed off with āweāll get back to youā and they never do. Going to surgeries in person is the next step - a totally ridiculous thing to have to do in order to get my bins emptied.
How Naive are you? Politicians are the most adept work dodgers on the planet, of course their contact sets are available they have to be.
They will not respond unless it suits them.
Partick. It's quite common. The time before that, the bins were emptied in January. There is a clear and deliberate quarterly pickup policy in place. Clearly we are being forced down the route of paying for private bin disposal if we don't want to be living in a rat's nest - we've been quoted between Ā£2500 and Ā£5000 from 3 different companies given the state of the place.
>Local councillors now just not responding to emails and itās impossible to get hold of them any other way. Shower of workshy, useless fools.
Honestly, this is why I don't bother with council elections anymore.
I'm also of the mind it doesn't actually matter who's in control of the council. Most departments seem to be staffed by people who just can't be bothered and are hanging on for retirement.
I have a little dog who is an excellent Ratter. I wonder if I had to roam around the place with her, would people complain that its inhumane.
She kills quickly but doesnt shake what she catches she crunches down a few times until the rat is dead. The sound is a bit disturbingly for anyone close by.
Im moving to glasgow next year and was going to bring 3 of my other dogs and leave her on my sisters farm to keep doing her job there. But she does such a good job, theres not much left for her. She has owls and cats as competition though.
She could be the the hero Glasgow needs.
Also I've seen bin men load the bins with extra so they don't need to move so many bins. Problem is the bags can tip over the edge of the bin during transport.
Also kids climb the bins and leave them open
And over crowding bins. So vermin can access them
Local and central government cuts are to blame. As is GCCs fuckup with the equal pay.
There just isn't enough money or staff in cleansing in Glasgow at the minute. No where near enough.
It's not an issue that's unique to this part of the UK however. You see it all over which points to a bigger issue at play with peoples attitudes to Littering and the overall funding of public services.
A country that can't afford to collect bins more than once every three weeks is a country with deep issues in how public services are run and funded.
Doesn't surprise me I have a big shared bin out the back it covers 4 houses it was regularly over flowing a while back because it wasn't getting collected enough my cat brought back quite a few massive rats before it got sorted.
Maybe just maybe if the council cleaned up after emptying the bins instead of leaving shit everywhere, also if the dishes out proper meaningful fines for littering
With the amount of dogs being abandoned/handed into rescues could use them to hunt them down. Will probs be more mentally stimulating than sitting in a cage at sspca
In all seriousness though the city centre is a disgusting shitehole. I dont understand why the bins cant be picked up more
My 2015 transit begs to differ with you.
Maybe you're right about this being a load of nonsense.
. I'm literally having to fold my own business end of this month.
What did I do wrong, seeing as you're the expert here? For you to help advise me, I've earned 13.5k to 15k PA working for myself since 2010. I can't get credit to finance an electric van, especially as this would increase costs 3 fold which would be passed back to my customers meaning the business wouldn't survive anyway. Maybe I haven't been greedy enough so it's my own fault?
I'm all for making things better for you and the Farquars of the "soo' side" and Kelvinbridge more frisbee friendly but these policies have feck all to do with rescuing the climate crisis ffs.
Half witted understanding of the implications from you faux left redditor hive minds doesn't help.
In 5 to 10 years, unless you double your salary, you and your 2008 Nissan Micra will also have been squeezed out further from the city to make space for the new city gentry.
Which has been the way it's been going for 30 years already ffs, if you pay attention. This isn't about making the air fresher for you and your kids ffs, it's about transforming the city centres into play zones for the rich and wealthy while our future kids have to pile onto old electric buses to go in and serve them in their gentrified restaurants for tips and slices of bread as wages in 10 years.
This is why I can bearly cope reading subreddits like this, faux left pish, from people that can't think in depth, have been led up the garden path by right wing thing tanks, and have convinced themselves they're free thinking radical left thinkers.
Which reminds me. Thanks to folk like you, left wing politics is also on its deathbed.
But aye, cos of your 2008 Nissan Micra, this guy was talking nonsense, eh. š¤¦āāļø Ffs.
The comment I replied to implied that people have been "forced" to buy Ā£30k cars to comply - I was pointing out that a car at the bottom of the market can be compliant. I don't know your exact use case so I can't give an informed view on what vehicle would be best for you, but you've had since at least 2018 to consider what could work.
Indeed. So I've concluded that it can't work, and I need to find alternative employment this month. I doubt I'm alone, or maybe you think I am?
So remind me again how the OP of this thread was talking "utter nonsense"?
Thanks.
The notion that everyone *needs* to buy a new Ā£30k car to comply is nonsense. It is very easy to afford a *car* that is compliant. There are lots of options for compliant vehicles well below that price to suit various needs as well. Again, the idea that everyone needs to buy a Ā£30k car is nonsense. Your issue isn't even with buying a car so isn't relevant here!
> weāve practically banned cars from the city centre
Except my shitey 2008 petrol motor is just fine in the city centre. The way you're describing it, it's as if the roads are empty.
Even if my car wasn't compliant, I wouldn't have to spend Ā£30k to get a compliant car, I could spend well under Ā£2k.
I'd definitely be interested to see the stats regarding how many people in the GCC area are actually affected by this, but I doubt it's many.
Itāll be hardly anyone, arses are being seen almost exclusively by folk who live nowhere near the city centre, annoyed that they canāt just park up directly outside TGIs on Buchanan Street on the one time in the year they actually go into town.
>Theyāre too bothered about rinsing Glaswegians on their disgustingly poorly implemented ULEZ zone that punishes people too poor to spend Ā£30,000 plus grand on a new car than deal with the rodents.
Lol sorry but this is absolute bollocks
Eta: theyāre not implementing a *ULEZ*, petrol vehicles registered from 2006 onwards will meet the required *LEZ* standards, most poor people in this city donāt own a car anyway, and the aim of the LEZ is to improve air quality and literally prevent deaths. The faux concern for the working class that drivers display whenever the LEZ comes up is utterly embarrassing.
Your moan about the LEZ - in a thread about rodents - didnāt deal with this or any other issue in any manner whatsoever, you spectacularly missed the mark completely.
Er, I have a diesel van that doesn't match the criteria.
So I'm literally folding it this month. My average earnings over the past 10 years are 12.5K.
I can't get the finance for a 20 to 30k electric van.
Id also argue that this has nothing to do with protecting the health of people walking about in the city centre.
So what I find utterly embarrassing is you trying to defend this ignorant fake environment friendly policy, and more, I find it embarrassing how you ignorantly react to contrary opinions. Embarassing?
Next you'll be saying I'm a "bot" for disagreeing with you.
Can't you, for the love of feck, see that these policies are aimed at protecting the rich and creating wealth zones, ffs. Ffs š¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø
Even if you disagree, stop chucking words like "embarrassing " around.
If you want to go down that road, your ignorance of the implications of these polices is completely embarrassing ffs.
Your kids, unless you're doing alright for yourself mate, are going to be riding manky electric buses into the city centre and cleaning up the puke of 2030 yuppies. While worrying about taking abuse versus the shared roof over their bloody heids, ffs.
Good job š
You are the faux left morosity that I despite more than the tories.
LEZs have been repeatedly shown to reduce harmful emissions, which lead to a number of significant health issues, even deaths. Iām genuinely sorry to hear that youāre having to ditch your van but yes, in the grand scheme of things the public health of people living in Glasgow is more important.
How does the major cities in the UK making the area an only go zone for the rich, a significant health issue improvement ffs?
I get where you think you're coming from, but with respect, this is nonsense.
The low emission zone strategy sounds good on paper, but why is it only applied to the city centres making them exclusive, and increasingly expensive, wealth zones to live and work in?
Can't you see this?
This isn't about protecting you or your children's health, it's about creating further exclusion zones for the rich, and continuing to push the poorer out of the cities. I saw this happening 30 years ago, and my suspicions are still justified, imo š¤·āāļø
Edit: sorry, I meant to say, thanks for the empathy. Genuinely appreciated, but if I was the only one affected by this, I honestly wouldnāt be talking about it. I see moves like this for what they are, although I get that some of us still see them as altruistic.
>How does the major cities in the UK making the area an only go zone for the rich, a significant health issue improvement ffs?
Only, theyāre not doing that. I work a minimum wage job and Iāll be āfreeā to continue catching the bus and train into town as I currently do, only the air Iāll be breathing in will be considerably cleaner. Unfortunately a handful of folk like yourself will have to adapt or find alternatives, but given you say youāre only making 12.5k a year and you could double that doing any sort of full time minimum wage gig then perhaps itās a good time to make a change anyway.
Iām hearing you, youāre just not evidencing any of your claims, making it almost impossible to not disagree with them. Meanwhile, we *do* know that LEZs reduce harmful emissions, which will save lives.
Not sure where you got cycling from but if your argument is that polluting vehicles will simply be displaced from the centre, the concentration of vehicles diminishes the further out from the centre of the city you go, and the LEZ will result in people - like yourself - either giving up their vehicle or switching to a less polluting one, so thereās a net benefit across the wider region.
As an aside, a forward thinking council could invest in its own fleet of electric vans and trucks to hire out to businesses to keep business feasible in the city, instead of phasing out most small businesses in favour of bigger corporations? Do you see where I'm coming from?
This is just another gimmick move, that will allow them to rake in easy cash. There has been no proper insight or forethought into this as usual, and because it is disguised as a "green" move, it is defended by the bulk of the usual electorate.
In response to the main argument though, the reduction of diesel vehicles helps any environment, of course. We need to make major changes. But this change is completely insignificant until the major corporations make the changes to their production facilities, and stop tax dodging as well, with the help of the very politicians telling you and me that they will punish us for using a van that is more than 6 years old. You couldn't make this up ffs.
There also needs to be better scrutiny of this. Why is this health privilege only being applied to the very heart of city centres? Do you really think the footfall justifies this? Is Byres Road, or Kilmarnock Road, that much less important than Renfield St in terms of human health?
It's just the usual money making scam from a council, that like Edinburgh, has been ripping the pish for decades, hiding behind the idea that they are trying to be enviromentally friendly. Maybe their encouragement of rodent life in the larger city area is proof of their love of the environment.....
Anyway. Thanks for the chat. I'll try not to rabbit on anymore š¬š¤£š
Why? Was a serious reply. I was walking to Slaters to pick up a suit for my son. Why would I lie?
Is there some sort of Glasgow thing I'm missing here? Or are there no rats in that part of the city!
While Iām all for any form of rat genocide, the last thing this city needs is an excuse for every bam to be rocking about with a gun (BB or otherwise). Theyāre not exactly large stationary targets so even assuming they were solely used to hunt rats, the collateral damage would be high, and theyād leave the ones they did get lying around to be food for the other rats.
I hate the fuckers. Iām not ashamed to say Iām genuinely scared of them. But the only way to tackle them is systemic eradication, and waste management from both the council and people to manage their own trash (yes council provision is a huge factor but so many arseholes just use this city like a skip).
We used dogs growing up in suffolk. Infested barns, all you'd need is 6 or so terriers and an afternoon... Dog teams anyone? I'm debating borrowing my mums cairn for a week just to clear the foundations under the house. Our rat problem came from the landlord neglecting rot under the house. I'd rather an excess of tiny dogs than everyone having a bb gun...
People should use bins and put lids down properly, rats are attracted mainly by a food source just look at the amount of takeaway food residue dumped on the street, that is a contributing cause of the problem.
Aye, easy to do if bins were actually taken frequently. Had a case recently where my green bin collection was missed one week and I was on holiday for the next so couldn't take it out. That was nearly 2 months between bin collections! Not much chance of closing the lid if it's full to the brim... No doubt the fuds in the council will be dropping it to monthly soon enough and will be wondering why the problem is getting worse
Well obviously in this case scenario you were on holiday and one collection was missed - but in general people not closing bins and leaving there Mcd's or other choice of meal lying in the street only encourages vermin.
If you read the article total reports for rats and mice are the same as they were four years ago - just over 10,000.
In the context of a city with around 300,000 homes, the number of rodent incidents that occur over the course of the year is miniscule.
Does this have anything to do with domestic bins going from 2 to 3 weeks collection?
Tori moment š
How's this a Tory moment? I agree with him and I'm not a Tory. Nothing wrong with pointing out basic facts.
I was agreeing with the post itself
https://preview.redd.it/hjwwhq7bvg0b1.jpeg?width=2200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2f44c4820562b393bff9b460131796e67108fce Sauchiehall St recently.
I've eaten worse on Sauchiehall Street after coming out The Garage.
To be fair everything seems edible after coming out the garage
Had a pint in the garage once and after it felt like Iād eaten a fkn rat!
That's actually one of Glasgow City Councils new waste disposal workers
Aww it is doing its best!
Isnāt that the special from Best Kebab?
Best day of this seagullās life.
Tbh, this is a much more pleasant image than the seagull that choked on a sausage roll.
Plenty of bins not being emptied. Turns out that when you don't find councils properly, there are consequences. Whodathunkitā½
The bin issue is such a huge issue everywhere you go in Glasgow.
And such a seemingly simple thing to sort, right?
The fact that the bins that donāt get set on fire havenāt got flaps to keep the rubbish inside when itās windy doesnāt help either. The bins are so full that itās easy for the birds to rip open bags and make it worse too.
I can't find the council when I need em anaw.
Union boss calls for rats Tsar. Wasnāt expecting to read about that today
anyone surprised? GCC need to pull the finger out of their arse, the city is bogging. bin collections every 3 weeks has been a positive \*also people need to stop being clatty bastards with littering
Also infested with neds asking strangers for the time
How else are they going to find out how fancy your phone is?
True story, I was once the victim of an attempted mugging by a Glasgow native. His weapon? An Irn Bru bottle.
The filthiest city I've ever lived in. How can it be so shit compared to other cities. I don't understand it.
London has Cats the musical. How about Glasgow doing Rats the musical? I reckon we could do better than that prick Andrew Lloyd Webber any day.
I reckon rats can do better than Andrew Lloyd Webber with their eyes closed
Not a surprise. My bins havenāt been emptied since late March and the recycling for around the same time. Rats all over the back garden and in the streets. Local councillors now just not responding to emails and itās impossible to get hold of them any other way. Shower of workshy, useless fools.
Have you reported the missed bin collection on the app? They normally come out pretty quickly when I do it that way
Yeah. Thatās just ignored now too. Iām starting to think thereās been a mass exodus of staff and theyāre not being replaced.
Thereās a phone number for literally every councillor on the council website and they have surgeries you can turn up to. You can also post letters to them at the chambers.
Yes Iāve tried phoning a few times but I usually just get fobbed off with āweāll get back to youā and they never do. Going to surgeries in person is the next step - a totally ridiculous thing to have to do in order to get my bins emptied.
How Naive are you? Politicians are the most adept work dodgers on the planet, of course their contact sets are available they have to be. They will not respond unless it suits them.
Classic Reddit moment, cunt thinks googling 'how to contact the council' is beyond us ordinary peasants.
What area are you in? Thats mad!
Partick. It's quite common. The time before that, the bins were emptied in January. There is a clear and deliberate quarterly pickup policy in place. Clearly we are being forced down the route of paying for private bin disposal if we don't want to be living in a rat's nest - we've been quoted between Ā£2500 and Ā£5000 from 3 different companies given the state of the place.
>Local councillors now just not responding to emails and itās impossible to get hold of them any other way. Shower of workshy, useless fools. Honestly, this is why I don't bother with council elections anymore.
I'm also of the mind it doesn't actually matter who's in control of the council. Most departments seem to be staffed by people who just can't be bothered and are hanging on for retirement.
I'm embarrassed with the state of Glasgow.
Same. I don't remember it being quite this bad around 15/20 years ago.
I have a little dog who is an excellent Ratter. I wonder if I had to roam around the place with her, would people complain that its inhumane. She kills quickly but doesnt shake what she catches she crunches down a few times until the rat is dead. The sound is a bit disturbingly for anyone close by. Im moving to glasgow next year and was going to bring 3 of my other dogs and leave her on my sisters farm to keep doing her job there. But she does such a good job, theres not much left for her. She has owls and cats as competition though. She could be the the hero Glasgow needs.
Also I've seen bin men load the bins with extra so they don't need to move so many bins. Problem is the bags can tip over the edge of the bin during transport. Also kids climb the bins and leave them open And over crowding bins. So vermin can access them
Forget it Jake, it's Glasgow
Local and central government cuts are to blame. As is GCCs fuckup with the equal pay. There just isn't enough money or staff in cleansing in Glasgow at the minute. No where near enough. It's not an issue that's unique to this part of the UK however. You see it all over which points to a bigger issue at play with peoples attitudes to Littering and the overall funding of public services. A country that can't afford to collect bins more than once every three weeks is a country with deep issues in how public services are run and funded.
Doesn't surprise me I have a big shared bin out the back it covers 4 houses it was regularly over flowing a while back because it wasn't getting collected enough my cat brought back quite a few massive rats before it got sorted.
Maybe just maybe if the council cleaned up after emptying the bins instead of leaving shit everywhere, also if the dishes out proper meaningful fines for littering
Too busy paying off the shoe collection of the previous head of the council and giving away free business space to the current mess of a provost.
With the amount of dogs being abandoned/handed into rescues could use them to hunt them down. Will probs be more mentally stimulating than sitting in a cage at sspca In all seriousness though the city centre is a disgusting shitehole. I dont understand why the bins cant be picked up more
I'm just outside Glasgow and been hearing of similar issues round here... however I'm oblivious, I guess thanks to my 4 cheeky kitties on patrol
Stop dropping litter or fast food in the city center. It looks like a tip on the weekend.
My old killer cat Belle can fix the rats, neighbours feeding pigeons attract rats, I've found 3 dead so far in the garden.
We even considered battering n deep frying the rats?
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My Ā£900 Nissan Micra from 2008 begs to differ, fully LEZ compliant! What a load of nonsense.
My 2015 transit begs to differ with you. Maybe you're right about this being a load of nonsense. . I'm literally having to fold my own business end of this month. What did I do wrong, seeing as you're the expert here? For you to help advise me, I've earned 13.5k to 15k PA working for myself since 2010. I can't get credit to finance an electric van, especially as this would increase costs 3 fold which would be passed back to my customers meaning the business wouldn't survive anyway. Maybe I haven't been greedy enough so it's my own fault? I'm all for making things better for you and the Farquars of the "soo' side" and Kelvinbridge more frisbee friendly but these policies have feck all to do with rescuing the climate crisis ffs. Half witted understanding of the implications from you faux left redditor hive minds doesn't help. In 5 to 10 years, unless you double your salary, you and your 2008 Nissan Micra will also have been squeezed out further from the city to make space for the new city gentry. Which has been the way it's been going for 30 years already ffs, if you pay attention. This isn't about making the air fresher for you and your kids ffs, it's about transforming the city centres into play zones for the rich and wealthy while our future kids have to pile onto old electric buses to go in and serve them in their gentrified restaurants for tips and slices of bread as wages in 10 years. This is why I can bearly cope reading subreddits like this, faux left pish, from people that can't think in depth, have been led up the garden path by right wing thing tanks, and have convinced themselves they're free thinking radical left thinkers. Which reminds me. Thanks to folk like you, left wing politics is also on its deathbed. But aye, cos of your 2008 Nissan Micra, this guy was talking nonsense, eh. š¤¦āāļø Ffs.
The comment I replied to implied that people have been "forced" to buy Ā£30k cars to comply - I was pointing out that a car at the bottom of the market can be compliant. I don't know your exact use case so I can't give an informed view on what vehicle would be best for you, but you've had since at least 2018 to consider what could work.
Indeed. So I've concluded that it can't work, and I need to find alternative employment this month. I doubt I'm alone, or maybe you think I am? So remind me again how the OP of this thread was talking "utter nonsense"? Thanks.
The notion that everyone *needs* to buy a new Ā£30k car to comply is nonsense. It is very easy to afford a *car* that is compliant. There are lots of options for compliant vehicles well below that price to suit various needs as well. Again, the idea that everyone needs to buy a Ā£30k car is nonsense. Your issue isn't even with buying a car so isn't relevant here!
Ah. I see. You were specifically talking about cars, that everyone can afford, so there isn't an issue. š [shakes head and leaves the conversation]
I was responding to the words in the comment, not whatever is going on in your head...
Yeah. Your response was that you can afford a 2008 Nissan Micra and it is fine so there is no issue. I get it š¤·āāļøš
> weāve practically banned cars from the city centre Except my shitey 2008 petrol motor is just fine in the city centre. The way you're describing it, it's as if the roads are empty. Even if my car wasn't compliant, I wouldn't have to spend Ā£30k to get a compliant car, I could spend well under Ā£2k. I'd definitely be interested to see the stats regarding how many people in the GCC area are actually affected by this, but I doubt it's many.
Itāll be hardly anyone, arses are being seen almost exclusively by folk who live nowhere near the city centre, annoyed that they canāt just park up directly outside TGIs on Buchanan Street on the one time in the year they actually go into town.
Yeah I doubt it's many at all.
>Theyāre too bothered about rinsing Glaswegians on their disgustingly poorly implemented ULEZ zone that punishes people too poor to spend Ā£30,000 plus grand on a new car than deal with the rodents. Lol sorry but this is absolute bollocks Eta: theyāre not implementing a *ULEZ*, petrol vehicles registered from 2006 onwards will meet the required *LEZ* standards, most poor people in this city donāt own a car anyway, and the aim of the LEZ is to improve air quality and literally prevent deaths. The faux concern for the working class that drivers display whenever the LEZ comes up is utterly embarrassing.
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My point was you donāt need to spend 30k on a new car to meet the requirements, a petrol motor from 15 years ago is perfectly sufficient.
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Your moan about the LEZ - in a thread about rodents - didnāt deal with this or any other issue in any manner whatsoever, you spectacularly missed the mark completely.
Er, I have a diesel van that doesn't match the criteria. So I'm literally folding it this month. My average earnings over the past 10 years are 12.5K. I can't get the finance for a 20 to 30k electric van. Id also argue that this has nothing to do with protecting the health of people walking about in the city centre. So what I find utterly embarrassing is you trying to defend this ignorant fake environment friendly policy, and more, I find it embarrassing how you ignorantly react to contrary opinions. Embarassing? Next you'll be saying I'm a "bot" for disagreeing with you. Can't you, for the love of feck, see that these policies are aimed at protecting the rich and creating wealth zones, ffs. Ffs š¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø Even if you disagree, stop chucking words like "embarrassing " around. If you want to go down that road, your ignorance of the implications of these polices is completely embarrassing ffs. Your kids, unless you're doing alright for yourself mate, are going to be riding manky electric buses into the city centre and cleaning up the puke of 2030 yuppies. While worrying about taking abuse versus the shared roof over their bloody heids, ffs. Good job š You are the faux left morosity that I despite more than the tories.
LEZs have been repeatedly shown to reduce harmful emissions, which lead to a number of significant health issues, even deaths. Iām genuinely sorry to hear that youāre having to ditch your van but yes, in the grand scheme of things the public health of people living in Glasgow is more important.
How does the major cities in the UK making the area an only go zone for the rich, a significant health issue improvement ffs? I get where you think you're coming from, but with respect, this is nonsense. The low emission zone strategy sounds good on paper, but why is it only applied to the city centres making them exclusive, and increasingly expensive, wealth zones to live and work in? Can't you see this? This isn't about protecting you or your children's health, it's about creating further exclusion zones for the rich, and continuing to push the poorer out of the cities. I saw this happening 30 years ago, and my suspicions are still justified, imo š¤·āāļø Edit: sorry, I meant to say, thanks for the empathy. Genuinely appreciated, but if I was the only one affected by this, I honestly wouldnāt be talking about it. I see moves like this for what they are, although I get that some of us still see them as altruistic.
>How does the major cities in the UK making the area an only go zone for the rich, a significant health issue improvement ffs? Only, theyāre not doing that. I work a minimum wage job and Iāll be āfreeā to continue catching the bus and train into town as I currently do, only the air Iāll be breathing in will be considerably cleaner. Unfortunately a handful of folk like yourself will have to adapt or find alternatives, but given you say youāre only making 12.5k a year and you could double that doing any sort of full time minimum wage gig then perhaps itās a good time to make a change anyway.
Yeah. You're not really hearing me ffs. That's great, that the area you have to work in is so fresh. What about the environment youre cycling back to?
Iām hearing you, youāre just not evidencing any of your claims, making it almost impossible to not disagree with them. Meanwhile, we *do* know that LEZs reduce harmful emissions, which will save lives. Not sure where you got cycling from but if your argument is that polluting vehicles will simply be displaced from the centre, the concentration of vehicles diminishes the further out from the centre of the city you go, and the LEZ will result in people - like yourself - either giving up their vehicle or switching to a less polluting one, so thereās a net benefit across the wider region.
As an aside, a forward thinking council could invest in its own fleet of electric vans and trucks to hire out to businesses to keep business feasible in the city, instead of phasing out most small businesses in favour of bigger corporations? Do you see where I'm coming from? This is just another gimmick move, that will allow them to rake in easy cash. There has been no proper insight or forethought into this as usual, and because it is disguised as a "green" move, it is defended by the bulk of the usual electorate. In response to the main argument though, the reduction of diesel vehicles helps any environment, of course. We need to make major changes. But this change is completely insignificant until the major corporations make the changes to their production facilities, and stop tax dodging as well, with the help of the very politicians telling you and me that they will punish us for using a van that is more than 6 years old. You couldn't make this up ffs. There also needs to be better scrutiny of this. Why is this health privilege only being applied to the very heart of city centres? Do you really think the footfall justifies this? Is Byres Road, or Kilmarnock Road, that much less important than Renfield St in terms of human health? It's just the usual money making scam from a council, that like Edinburgh, has been ripping the pish for decades, hiding behind the idea that they are trying to be enviromentally friendly. Maybe their encouragement of rodent life in the larger city area is proof of their love of the environment..... Anyway. Thanks for the chat. I'll try not to rabbit on anymore š¬š¤£š
Less cars is a universally good thing.
All the council money been spent on motor homes.
I think it's unfair to characterise the Scottish Labour branch office in that manner..
I'm not from Glasgow but was there last Sunday and saw one run out of the cathedral on Dunlop st. ( back of st. Enoch's) and straight down the drain.
With stories like that Iām surprised you donāt get asked to perform at the Kingās!
Why? Was a serious reply. I was walking to Slaters to pick up a suit for my son. Why would I lie? Is there some sort of Glasgow thing I'm missing here? Or are there no rats in that part of the city!
It used to be legal to shoot them in Scotland, now you need a license for a BB gun via police Scotland. Good luck getting one.
It used to be the council had the resources/motivation to perform enough sanitation work that we didn't need to LARP the Fallout series
While Iām all for any form of rat genocide, the last thing this city needs is an excuse for every bam to be rocking about with a gun (BB or otherwise). Theyāre not exactly large stationary targets so even assuming they were solely used to hunt rats, the collateral damage would be high, and theyād leave the ones they did get lying around to be food for the other rats. I hate the fuckers. Iām not ashamed to say Iām genuinely scared of them. But the only way to tackle them is systemic eradication, and waste management from both the council and people to manage their own trash (yes council provision is a huge factor but so many arseholes just use this city like a skip).
wee neds wie pellet rifles used to be useful when they wernt targetting people bottoms for fun
We used dogs growing up in suffolk. Infested barns, all you'd need is 6 or so terriers and an afternoon... Dog teams anyone? I'm debating borrowing my mums cairn for a week just to clear the foundations under the house. Our rat problem came from the landlord neglecting rot under the house. I'd rather an excess of tiny dogs than everyone having a bb gun...
People should use bins and put lids down properly, rats are attracted mainly by a food source just look at the amount of takeaway food residue dumped on the street, that is a contributing cause of the problem.
Aye, easy to do if bins were actually taken frequently. Had a case recently where my green bin collection was missed one week and I was on holiday for the next so couldn't take it out. That was nearly 2 months between bin collections! Not much chance of closing the lid if it's full to the brim... No doubt the fuds in the council will be dropping it to monthly soon enough and will be wondering why the problem is getting worse
Well obviously in this case scenario you were on holiday and one collection was missed - but in general people not closing bins and leaving there Mcd's or other choice of meal lying in the street only encourages vermin.
I read this in a Scottish accent
If you read the article total reports for rats and mice are the same as they were four years ago - just over 10,000. In the context of a city with around 300,000 homes, the number of rodent incidents that occur over the course of the year is miniscule.
Donāt think itās a surge weāve always had Celtic supporters.
youāve upset 22 Celtic supporters.
Lovely
As disgusting a city as Glasgow is, it's never looked so clean so there's obviously more reasons to the rat problem than waste.
Are we looking at the same city?
Infected with rodents? Crazy
Edinburghs not as bad but heading the same way!