ONCE again the Health & Safety Gestapo are at it.
I refer to the decision by Borough of Poole to tear up the railway track in Poole Park and then invite tenders from experienced operators to operate the railway after a new track and fencing has been installed.
What’s wrong with letting the existing operator carry on? He’s been there for 12 years - isn’t that experience enough? The railway has been in the park since 1949 and I can’t recall any runaway trains loaded with screaming children racing to their doom or cattle straying on to the track.
The council says it has to go through all this nonsense (estimated cost to the successful bidder£200,000), for Health & Safety reasons.
What precisely are its concerns and what’s next? Fencing around the boating lake, life jackets while in a pedalo?
Seems to me it’s the usual council jobsworth, the type who ban conkers and hanging baskets, who hasn’t got an ounce of common sense wanting to boss the rest of us around.
BILL WARREN
Dorchester Road, Oakdale
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