FIXMYSTREET IN LL55 4PX
The following problems have been reported on Fix My Street within 2 miles of LL55 4PX:
Drain pipe, 14th March
Loose drain pipe on bus shelter ( blowing in the wind)
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): A4086, Llanberis, Llanberis
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Recurring pothole on road outside driveway., 6th January
Constant refill of pothole coming away & exposing the hole. Needs refilling again or resurfacing properly.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 21 Maes Padarn, Llanberis
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Many potholes on this street, 1st July
These potholes are very dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Siemens Healthineers Glyn Rhonwy, Llanberis
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Traffic lights again, 4th May
Why are there now two sets of traffic lights on the same short stretch of road. This is causing disruption and is a danger as the traffic on the Llanberis side of the traffic lights is backed up around the bends again. This part of the road was only finished last year and now it is being dug up again. Why was this work not done when the resurfacing was being done?
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Snowdon and the Menai Strait, Cwm-Y-Glo
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Post in pavement not visible after dark, 2nd December
This gate post situated in the pavement is not visible after dark. No street lighting or reflective paint/markers etc. Walked into last evening and sustained serious injury. Ridiculous to place such an obstacle in a pavement.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanddeiniolen
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A number of pot holes, 9th June
A large number of pot hole have come up after the recent weather going up and down the road. Some are small and others are rather large and deep and in some bit the tarmac has completely gone and you can see underneath the road it's self it's becoming abit of a danger for walkers and cycling up the road
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Lon Garret, Dinorwig
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Eight-inch-deep hole by footpath. Near lake. Llanberis, 1st June
I nearly twisted my ankle and saw two more people do the same. The grass conceals the hole. People are stepping off the paved path and going straight in the hole. The location is the bit of lawn by the delta of the little stream by the car park whose location is 803897 with Pay And Park.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanberis
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Broken gate, 1st June
The bracket for the gate to keep it self shut has been broken off on Monday. goats and sheep can now access the bus stop witch leads to the main road
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanddeiniolen
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Broken gate, 1st June
The bracket for the gate to keep it self shut has been broken off on Monday goats and sheep can now access the bus witch leads to the main road
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanddeiniolen
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Extravagant flyposting of rambler's signpost at Fron Gogh, 3rd March
Below Dinorwig terrace is a narrow lane flanked on the north side by chalet-style houses. In the vicinity of Fron Goch is the rambler's sign pictured. It looks as if it has been used for wallpapering practice, so plastered was it a month ago with yellow stickers.
This is what was on them: na i ail gartrefl no to a second home tai i bobl leol housing for local people achubwch ein save our cymunedau communities.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments, it is those in high office who should surely be confronted with them, not the powerless, living out their retirement inoffensively in their modest dwellings. Since the Cymry Rhydd rubric is on the rambler's sign, barely half a mile away, I wonder what really lies behind it. What is the message that is ramped up by having so many identical stickers applied to one pole? And just here, too?
I removed them, lest they give offence.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanddeiniolen
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Big enough, rich enough, smart enough...to deface a sign post?, 3rd March
On the approach road to the Dinorwig bus turnaround, about 400 yards back from the roundabout, there used to be a phone box. This was repeatedly vandalized until it was removed. Someone presumably had HAD ENOUGH of Alexander Graham Bell's invention and wanted to return to a simpler method of communication. Sign language.
On one side of this pole (first photo) is a sticker attesting to the stickerer's determination to use his* voice in the political process - to advocate for social change, denounce policies that concern him, contact his councillor or MP, join debating groups, etc. After all, he is BIG ENOUGH, RICH ENOUGH and certainly SMART ENOUGH.
Oh, wait... he's not using those methods at all! His vaunted articulacy and intelligence, his political acumen, influence and personal wealth seem to be confined to knowing how to obtain free, crowd-funded stickers and vandalize public property in order to subliminally influence others to "think" his way.
On the other side (photo 2) is his arch nemesis, The Society of the Covenant of the Free Welsh (https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymdeithas_Cyfamod_y_Cymry_Rhydd):
'One of the original founders of the movement was Owain Williams, well known for his involvement in the bombing of the contractors' work site at Tryweryn by the Welsh Defense Movement in 1963 in an attempt to prevent the drowning of Capel Celyn. While not prepared to condone violence as such, he said "an exceptional time requires an exceptional response". The Covenanters' most prominent supporter was the nationalist poet R. S. Thomas, who was much more willing to publicly support the activities of the Sons of Glyndwr.
The COVENANTERS SUPPORTED THE SUMMER HOUSE BURNING CAMPAIGN and PRODUCED CONTROVERSIAL PUBLICITY MATERIAL, such as T-shirts and mugs, SUGGESTING THIS. Another publicity issue was the issue of a Welsh passport; some members used the passport to travel to the Continent. [1] They also called on Welsh speakers to bring up more children in order to counteract the impact of the (English) influx on Welsh speaking communities. [2]
What then does the stickerer mean by '(Wales has) had enough?'
Enough funding from the Exchequer, of course, like the £650 millions of extra cash added two weeks ago to the Welsh Government's coffers as a result of additional Covid-19 spending by the UK Treasury, which brings the total funding transferred from Westminster to Cardiff since the pandemic to £5.85bn. This is more than Wales has received from the EU since the year 2000. What smart person like him would not despise such stupendous generosity from the Westminster government?
I can only speak for myself, of course, unlike this person, who presumes to speak for us all. But I know that I have HAD ENOUGH of both faces of this sign, treasonous nationalism on the one side and militant nationalism on the other.
* I presume that it's a male, for I would not expect females to behave as badly.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Lon Garret, Dinorwig
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Not even time, the great healer, could remove this ugly blot., 3rd March
That shadowy painted mark on the chevrons by Bigil is the iconography associated with Cymdeithas Cyfamod y Cymry Rhydd.
Who are, or more accurately, were - for this nationalist organization is described as 'defunct' (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Welsh_nationalism)- 'The Society of the Covenant of the Free Welsh'?
The reader who is Welsh speaking can visit this site for more information: https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymdeithas_Cyfamod_y_Cymry_Rhydd.
I will reproduce the English version, for the sake of the English who are - or certainly were - being targeted, more than a generation ago, by arsonists who called themselves 'Meibion Glyndwr':
'One of the original founders of the movement was Owain Williams, well known for his involvement in the bombing of the contractors' work site at Tryweryn by the Welsh Defense Movement in 1963 in an attempt to prevent the drowning of Capel Celyn. While not prepared to condone violence as such, he said "an exceptional time requires an exceptional response". The Covenanters' most prominent supporter was the nationalist poet R. S. Thomas, who was much more willing to publicly support the activities of the Sons of Glyndwr.
The COVENANTERS SUPPORTED THE SUMMER HOUSE BURNING CAMPAIGN and PRODUCED CONTROVERSIAL PUBLICITY MATERIAL, such as T-shirts and mugs, SUGGESTING THIS. Another publicity issue was the issue of a Welsh passport; some members used the passport to travel to the Continent. [1] They also called on Welsh speakers to bring up more children in order to counteract the impact of the (English) influx on Welsh speaking communities. [2]
Now if the The Society of the Covenant of the Free Welsh is now considered defunct (see above link on Welsh nationalism), then some local cabal of fanatics - possibly those who defaced the ramblers sign on the approach to the bus turnaround in Dinorwig (see second pic) - wish to keep their memory alive. And why should they want to do that, unless they shared the latter-day Society's support for the 'summer house burning campaign'?
By 'summer house' the writers mean 'second homes' or 'holiday homes', of which there are not a few in Dinorwig and Fachwen.
Methinks those who sanctify the memory of the Society may well wish to imitate them in another important respect - producing CONTROVERSIAL PUBLICITY MATERIAL, such as T-shirts and mugs, SUGGESTING THIS (suggesting their support for Meibion Glyndwr's arson campaign).
Oh wait, one cannot easily put a controversial mug or T-shirt on a lamp post to garner support for the Society or its militant arm. But how about a little yellow sticker denouncing the evil English who buy second homes in these parts?
I have seen them everywhere, stuck on lamp posts close to residences that could be someone's 'summer house', but which were in fact lived in all year round by retirees or by those trying to make an honest living as, say, horse ranchers.
What is to stop these nostalgic sociopaths, in the lead-up to the Senedd elections on 6 May, jumping onto the Yes campaign bandwagon of the closet Remainers and adding the Society's stickers to the latter's Yes stickers?
Well, maybe the EU Yes-men have some good qualities after all. For the first photo shows a crude attempt on that person's part to erase the Society's runic icon with white spirit. This has unfortunately damaged the chevron's reflective, hexagonal matrix, which is why we have Byelaws prohibiting flyposting.
Both are in the wrong for thinking that a street sign may have a more important purpose than preventing potentially fatal car crashes on a sharp bend at the top of a hill - that of promoting Welsh nationalism and discouraging second-home ownership among English incomers.
Neither vehicular smoking wrecks, nor domestic smoking wrecks, would be championed by any law-abiding, morally or spiritually healthy individual.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanddeiniolen
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Damage to a bus stop pole caused by a Yes sticker, 3rd March
The damage to this pole is much less severe than that caused to the lamp post in Tai Castell or to the nearby chevron sign, but it does show that the adhesive compound applied to the sticker reacts negatively with certain painted surfaces.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanddeiniolen
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Flyposting: political propaganda, 3rd March
All people deserve to walk wherever they like, even if it's only to the disused incline (look-out point) at the Dinorwig Quarry, without being visually harassed about their attitudes to Brexit.
This label has appeared in the last week, affixed to the kissing gate at the bus turnaround in Dinorwig. It reminded me just how much Yes Campaigners see the EU as the answer to their dreams of Welsh independence.
The defacer of the gate seems quite ignorant of the fact that the EU is a sinking ship, with Poland, Hungary, Italy, France, Sweden and Denmark all having recently expressed a desire to leave the crumbling, Soviet-style behemoth.
Moreover, in view of the fact that Wales has been gifted with more from the UK Treasury since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak that it has received from the EU since 2000, the EU is clearly not the proverbial goose that lays the golden eggs - the UK treasury is.
Reciproacally, the EU is unlikely to be interested in a lame duck like Wales, whose public spending exceeded its tax receipts in 2016 by as much as £14.7 bn, and which has the lowest GDP of the all the 12 UK regions, barring NI and NE England. The only reason why parts of Wales benefitted from EU membership in the past was because England was a major contributor.
This diehard Remoaner thus shows contempt for England's contribution and our common cultural and historical legacy.
I feel slighted by the campaign, and I am sure, that there are many Welsh, who agree with me. It is not his place to tell others what to think. The sticker's threatening style verges on the sociopathic.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Llanddeiniolen
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Upside down, 31st December
The street light by the bench seems to have turned upside down
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Lon Garret, Dinorwig
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Broken grit box, 31st December
The grit box has been smashed since the start of the year and could ideally be replaced with one slightly bigger or another one put abit further up closer to the last house at the top
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Lon Garret, Dinorwig
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Someone has been dumping in the lay-by, 17th August
Someone has dumped a microwave ect on the side of a rural road
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Ffordd Clegir, Llanberis
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Grit bin damaged, 7th October
Grit bin is damaged.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Gadlys Cottages Church Road, Llanberis
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Bad arking, 13th September
Drivers at arriva have noted repeated issue with multiple services using the turning circle in llanberis due to a coach that now spends most of the time parked in the layby.
This is further compounded by taxis also parking illegally on double yellows within the turning circle.
There is a coach park down the road where this coach which is used for schools services could relocate
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 19 Maes Padarn, Llanberis
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Faded bus stop markings, 12th July
All along the High Street, the bus stop markings have faded, and there are issues with parking causing passengers to have to board and alight in the road. Incidents of passengers falling (particularly over 60's) when boarding and alighting are occurring due to indiscriminate parking. It is our fear a passenger could be seriously injured / hospitalised due to parking issues.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 56 High Street, Llanberis
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Pot holes. Anti social behaviour. Abandoned cars. Bins overflowing.
Few neighbourhoods aren't blighted with these types of problems that frustrate the local community. They're becoming increasingly common. Luckily, there's a website called 'FixMyStreet', which allows residents to complain to the local council about local issues in the neighbourhood.
We've got hold of the data from FixMyStreet, to show problems and issues reported within a couple of miles radius of LL55 4PX.
Useful Resources
- Gov.uk
Report a noise nuisance to your local council, including loud music, noisy pubs, rowdy parties or barking dogs. - Citizens Advice
Information from Citizens Advice about complaining about your neighbour. - HomeOwners Alliance
Guidance for homeowners how to deal with noisy neighbours who are making your life a misery. - FixMyStreet
Report, view or discuss local problems such as graffiti, fly-tipping, broken paving slabs or street lighting.
