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Originally Posted by Neil
I think roads should take priority over footpaths so people can get to work and school. Keeping schools open is not given enough priority in my opinion.
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Well, as you know, Neil .. roads are LCC... they have not the resources to take on board the footpaths too so up to HBC to try and help.
As for keeping schools open !! Well, don't get me going on that one. Sure .. some schools in Scotland have been surrounded by snow and very rural, but schools in our area have not been too badly cut off. Don't really think it is the pavements surrounding schools .. just getting to it in the first place .. that's why the priority is the major roads. Unfortunately, lots of people can't get their car out of their road. Most pupils are within at least 3 miles of the school and is easily walkable for young people or they could have walked to the nearest bus stop. Suppose the problem is that more teachers live further away, but can surely manage with who turns up.
My daughter lives in West Yorkshire and had it far worse than we have ... she walked the 4 miles every day to her surgery in the worst times (impossible to get her car up the winding, icy hill she lives on) ...and she is only a little dot.