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Originally Posted by katex
Just wondered what type of vehicle is delivering the grit, Ken ? Would have to be of a size to carry quite a few bags, but still capable of making its way through snow covered side streets.
If they were delivering to everybody in the Borough, then a larger vehicle would be required which wouldn't be able to proceed on these roads.
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Of course, and the honest answer is that I don't know.
As it stands, I understand that 8,639 bags have been ordered through this scheme and it has gone £7,500 over budget which means that offering it to the whole borough for £10k was a little ambitious and to be blunt an outright lie. That number of bags equates to around 130 tonnes which is a fair old number of trips if you're using a council flatbed Transit van.
There's no simple blanket solution to the gritting problem but there are far better ways of going about it. Some of my residents are in their 90s and can barely walk so giving them a 30lb bag of grit and expecting them to spread it themselves isn't very practical.
Last year we had reports of some of the council operatives unable to work due to the icy conditions so surely it would be better to give them alternative duties such as hand gritting?