“@AnotherPlanet - Myself and many other RBH Campaigners have written to Sir Peter Soulsby on many occasions. We receive no response from him or his cabinet. We also regularly meet with our local ward councillors , Mp Liz Kendall and the Leicester City Councils strategic assett management department. We are also in regular contact with the education department – which currently owns the building, as it used to be a school. So before telling me not to complain and to act, in future, i suggest you look at our website: http://tinyurl.com/3sggrns and our facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/4ygzopl and see for yourself what we have allready done, and what we are constantly up against :0)”

“To leeclarke2. Instead of complaining about what happened in the past why don't you write to the City Mayor and offer your services again? He wasn't in control previously was he? He may be more than happy to accept your offer of help. Don't complain, act !”

“"Sir Peter's aims included creating new community clean-up days during which council cleaning staff blitzed specific areas." - What a joke! Myself and two other Local residents in braunstone want/wanted to tidy up around Braunstone Hall and clear overgrown vegetation but the Leicester City Council said NO because of "health and safety" we even offered to undertake the work under the supervision of parks services officers but they still rejected us! http://tinyurl.com/42hxdds”

“..interesting article..if council housing is on the list.Fair to say..council houses have been paid for many times..over the decades.If ownership of council houses were transferred from council to the govt..they could charge as little as £5 a week rent.The savings in housing benefit would go a long way to reduce the national debt.If the scheme were adopted across the uk..even more so.I think conservative councils would be in favour of this..my question is..would labour councils like leicester..lose out in such a scheme..when savings are calculated in terms of annual gov"t budgets v housing benefit revenue.Thanks.”

“oldhenry, someone's switched the E and H keys on your keyboard around !”

“Did his 100 pledges include removing or charging the vehicles parked anywhere in the city? Well the rules are there but not implemented for 'Some' drivers. On Rutland Street next to the Tesco Express we see a particular car parked for hours during the rush hour in the morning. None of the wardens or policeman will dare book that one. Why? So many of them drive through the 'Buses & Taxis' only route at speed on Charles Street between Primark and the JobCentre roundabout. Sometimes there are more private cars then the buses and taxis. No one does anything about it. Why? Lets hope these issues are on the second 100 days pledge list. At the Melton Turn bus stop for example there are 'always' vehicles parked when I travel to the village every evening. The elderly and mums with push chairs are forced to drop of in the middle of the road. It is alleged that the traders over there are known to the Wardens so that stretch of road is perhaps deliberately avoided. Well! who knows. All over the city we see traffic regulations breached and the number is on the increase.”

“Two easy and no-charge options for improving bus servcies in the city: (1) force First & Arriva to allow each other's travel card holders to use their buses in the city area. (2) declare a year-long traffic-scheme amnesty to allow buses to travel unimpeded into the city. The former is free to the council and the latter would even save them all the money they normally waste on creating jams with no noticable improvement at the end of them.”

“Well a lot of blah blah as expected of politicians. He has to keep a high profile to justify having an elected mayor rather than teh typical set up of leader and chief executive. It looks as though so far about teh same has been achieved as teh previous set up, apart from the CE being giving marching orders, plus a pay off I presume?”

“To improve bus services try talking to communities a very sucessful 302 service was created by residents of Braunstone .This takes people where they want to go .Shops market two hospitals etc
However since resident involvement ceased ,the service is gradually changing no Sunday or evening journeys . A lot of the bus's have steps instead of low loading bus's for wheelchair users or parents with pushchairs.This means numbers using the srvice will no doubt drop, and blame will be put on the recession
Pauline
Braunstone”

“oi soulsby!.........
getting a better bus service for leicester?one of your aims eh?great .welcomed.where are you going to put the bus stops that are now in humberstone gate when you spend £3 million on ` improvements`to the area?surely not the fantastic bus station in charles street.you know the one ,no litter bins,litter strewn,pavement ashtrays,no vehicles apart from buses and taxis{joke}.
a better bus service must include buses being able to travel unhinded .spend a few hours with the crews driving along narboro`/hinkley/melton/belgrave/humberstone roads to enjoy the driving and parking `actions` of the vehicles.i see better driving on billy bates fun fair !
so get real and get some serious work actioned and not left as rhetoric .”