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I'd like to echo Howard's sentiments - this is a time to be ashamed of being a Dovorian........not only do we have tourists struggling to get to the docks, but we have pavements that have not been touched by the council, roads that are still sheets of ice days after the snow stopped falling, stories of ambulances being unable to get through the traffic to injured pregnant women, and a stony silence from KCC and DDC.
Ultimately it doesn't matter who is responsible for the safety of the people, if the councils concerned stopped passing the buck, got off their backsides and actually did something constructive, perhaps Dover wouldn't be seen as some hick town in a forgotten backwater of a p*ss-poorly managed country.
We have the much vaunted high-speed rail link now coming to town, and no buses to take the passengers to the docks, where at least one of the ferry companies no longer take foot passengers, where the far-seeing DHB closed the departure lounge some years ago, and with it the facilities needed to provide some creature comforts for stranded passengers.........it beggars belief, it really does.
Dover is a bad joke at the moment; all Roger Walkden's efforts as Business Support Manager, all the efforts of the new Chamber of Commerce to breathe life into a dying town centre, all the efforts of the brilliant community groups such as the LRCF, all this will be a waste of time, money and effort unless the basics are got right. Stop pussyfooting around and get the basics right - get the infrastructure in place so that the town doesn't grind to a halt every time the wind blows or the snow falls. It doesn't matter what colour your politics are, the efforts of our civic leaders have not been good enough over the past week, and it just reflects on the town itself. As I said before, it's a bad joke - and noone's laughing.