Another week and, remarkably, two examples of a government demonstrating some common sense. Shame it took so long for it to come to the fore.
We have Policy & Resources finally calling a truce over the legal fees dispute over the Fermain Cafe fiasco. The way this has been handled throughout has been another notable disaster for the under-fire States Property Unit.
And the decision to go back to the drawing board and leave the Water Lanes alone is not just eight months overdue… it dates back more than four years to when someone thought it would be a good idea in the first place. Cue some groupthink and ultimately, a bit of common sense brought to bear to dump the shambles.
But lo, here we have the Committee for the Environment & Infrastructure getting involved… the committee that can’t stop putting its foot in it, particularly over motorised transport.
Just when we’ve realised that, for decades, younger people than those now set to attend The Guernsey Institute on this site have managed to make their way to school without the need for civil servant interference, E&I says it will step in with a wider review of infrastructure and traffic flows in the area of Collings Road and the Water Lanes.
Get ready for the howls of complaint about the idea of a one-way system being introduced in the area, which will then lead to another inevitable U-turn.
