We tottered into the library yesterday to collect a copy of the "consultation" survey which will seek our opinions on the Into Town bus service before ignoring them if they are unfavourable and rubber-stamping the scheme anyway.
However, we couldn't find a survey form for love or money - for the simple reason that none was available.
Cue much wailing and gnashing of gums.
Back home, we logged on to the Boston Borough Council website to find a story added that very day saying that the "consultation" will begin next Monday the 18th of February and run until 16th March.
Worried that we were in the early onset of old timer's disease, we reassured ourselves that the survey had been reported in the local press as a month long affair beginning on 9th February and not one of just three weeks. And it had.
Lest someone had the impudence to suggest that our local papers were anything other than accurate in their reporting, we double checked with the press release issued by Lincolnshire County Council which confirmed the dates.
So what's gone wrong?
Has the County Council missed the bus ... or have our masters in Worst Street failed to distribute the survey on time?
We favour the latter, as it's typical of Boston Borough Council to bodge something up ... then make believe that it was something different all the time.
Otherwise why bother to issue an announcement a fortnight after the county with only a few day's notice which, if intended as a press release came too late for the local papers?
Sounds like Boston, doesn't it?
Talking of the Into Town bus service, it may be timely to remind the drivers that it's quite possible that not everyone knows about the rules of engagement when those nasty meeping, smelly coaches need to wreck the Strait Bargate shopping ambiance.
Yesterday, as we were crossing the Market Place, a bus came along at quite some speed and the driver merely engaged his flashing light/irritating noise button before cruising into and among the pedestrian traffic and slowing as he did so.
This is a classic example of familiarity breeding contempt, breeding a possible accident, as it assumes that everyone is now conditioned -Pavlov style - to fling themselves aside and make way for the buses.
We saw a similar case a couple of weeks ago as an elderly pedestrian tried to cross from Shephard's Bakery in Bargate to the Green.
A bus which was at some distance continued towards her at what we would term an aggressive speed .. so much so that braking in time for the bus stop almost proved elusive.
And these are not the only incidents we have seen. We have the feeling that sometimes drivers are frustrated at pedestrians behaving as though they were still in the good old days when their shopping centre was a vehicle free zone - a quieter, pollution free place which made a visit to shop in Boston centre an enjoyment rather than an endurance test.
Write to us at boston.eye@googlemail.com Your e-mails will be treated in confidence if requested.
However, we couldn't find a survey form for love or money - for the simple reason that none was available.
Cue much wailing and gnashing of gums.
Back home, we logged on to the Boston Borough Council website to find a story added that very day saying that the "consultation" will begin next Monday the 18th of February and run until 16th March.
Worried that we were in the early onset of old timer's disease, we reassured ourselves that the survey had been reported in the local press as a month long affair beginning on 9th February and not one of just three weeks. And it had.
Lest someone had the impudence to suggest that our local papers were anything other than accurate in their reporting, we double checked with the press release issued by Lincolnshire County Council which confirmed the dates.
So what's gone wrong?
Has the County Council missed the bus ... or have our masters in Worst Street failed to distribute the survey on time?
We favour the latter, as it's typical of Boston Borough Council to bodge something up ... then make believe that it was something different all the time.
Otherwise why bother to issue an announcement a fortnight after the county with only a few day's notice which, if intended as a press release came too late for the local papers?
Sounds like Boston, doesn't it?
Talking of the Into Town bus service, it may be timely to remind the drivers that it's quite possible that not everyone knows about the rules of engagement when those nasty meeping, smelly coaches need to wreck the Strait Bargate shopping ambiance.
Yesterday, as we were crossing the Market Place, a bus came along at quite some speed and the driver merely engaged his flashing light/irritating noise button before cruising into and among the pedestrian traffic and slowing as he did so.
This is a classic example of familiarity breeding contempt, breeding a possible accident, as it assumes that everyone is now conditioned -Pavlov style - to fling themselves aside and make way for the buses.
We saw a similar case a couple of weeks ago as an elderly pedestrian tried to cross from Shephard's Bakery in Bargate to the Green.
A bus which was at some distance continued towards her at what we would term an aggressive speed .. so much so that braking in time for the bus stop almost proved elusive.
And these are not the only incidents we have seen. We have the feeling that sometimes drivers are frustrated at pedestrians behaving as though they were still in the good old days when their shopping centre was a vehicle free zone - a quieter, pollution free place which made a visit to shop in Boston centre an enjoyment rather than an endurance test.
Write to us at boston.eye@googlemail.com Your e-mails will be treated in confidence if requested.
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