dcbwhaley wrote:
SafeSpeedv2 wrote:
Pinching the bin would be a theft against the Council. Taking salt for your own drive is not correct - although I now think that there ought to be bins or deliveries to each residential area ...
If a shovelful of grit on a residential drive
prevents an old person from falling over and breaking a femur then it is money well spent in both financial and human terms. The , very prevalent, idea that it is much more important to clear the snow from the carriage ways than the pavements - that residents should clear their own pavement whist public money is spent on clearing the road - is quite reprehensible. Pedestrians are quite likely to be badly injure trying to negotiate frozen pavements.
But it's not old people that turn up in cars and empty the grit bins to salt their driveways - it's people who are young and fit AND in gainful employment... well gainful enough to think they have a right to help themselves to the salt to help them on their way to work!
I have asked several elderly friends if they wanted taking into town for shopping, or their driveway clearing and all have told me that they are well supplied by neighbours, and have little desire to go out in the cold.
dcbwhaley wrote:
Perhaps the NHS, rather than the Council, should be responsible for clearing snow since they pick up the bill for failure to do it properly.
As an organisation whose employees (at the "sharp end") are renowned for their caring attitude, then they would probably make a better job than most councils whose officials and employees simply say in most instances... "we are not legally obliged to do that..."
My Town Council are looking at providing two salt spreaders to salt pavements in Windermere and Bowness, at a cost of £1000 each. The salt and manpower are another matter - the likelihood is that the machines will be pushed around by volunteers, and we will have to beg for salt from the county council as we have no depot to store it in.
At present, they release salt to us in paltry amounts just as the snow and ice begin to thaw!
The county council have a schedule of gritting - primary routes first, then secondary routes, and finally local roads.
In practice as soon as there is continuous snow, they just keep doing the primary routes over and over, because they closed down many of the local gritting depots and have to travel huge distances to refill the wagons - by which time their earlier efforts have been covered over with fresh snow!
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