IS it any surprise to anyone that the promised tram opening date is now extended to 2015, and not the original date of December 2014?
The blame for this delay is simply the calibre of leadership in both the management and in the foremen who stand about with gangs of workers laughing and joking and watching one man in a JCB dig out some earth.
I worked in management and made sure each and everyone in my charge did an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Sometimes I wasn't very popular, but workers sadly take advantage of weakness in leadership.
Get a real grip of the site management and your workers on site will get the job done; leave it as it is and 2015 will also not be met. Actions, not excuses, are what's needed.
SID WHEELDON
Farnborough Road
Clifton Estate
I WOULD like to ask T Burrows to think again if he believes my recent letter was extolling a golden age.
Does he seriously believe that I think modern heating and plumbing is inferior to that of yesterday; that standing up for meals is desirable; or I would recommend a return to the old leather-based footballs?
I was merely reporting changes since my childhood, some good but clearly not all. His main criticism of my earlier years seems to be that of hypocrisy, particularly regarding sexual behaviour. My only oblique reference to this was to asking "complete strangers" to take one into the A rated films, but this indicates naivety not hypocrisy.
The times I wrote about were not perfect and there was hypocrisy, particularly with respect to sexual behaviour; but the recent revelations about Jimmy Savile et al indicate that hypocrisy was not exclusively a feature of the 40s and 50s.
JACK MILLER
Orford Avenue
Radcliffe on Trent