Free grit for all! - Page 27

Less · 19-09-2011, 17:21

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Originally Posted by garinda

Being a cripple I need every advantage to minimise the risk that I don't fall arse over tit on the ice again.

I'm sure Mags will be on very soon to let us all know how much more dangerous it is to fall on a salt filled pavement than it is to break an ankle.

Bee · 19-09-2011, 18:20

We need more Grit. Xmas is coming

Tealeaf · 19-09-2011, 18:35

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Originally Posted by Bee

We need more Grit. Xmas is coming

Have you sent your letter to Santa yet, asking for a bag?

magpie · 19-09-2011, 18:43

took all summer to wash the last lot away..... I personally did not think it was much good....

garinda · 19-09-2011, 18:48

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Originally Posted by magpie

took all summer to wash the last lot away..... I personally did not think it was much good....

Doesn't do the roads much good.

Made the Beatles song about Blackburn's four thousand pot holes look positively meagre.

Benipete · 19-09-2011, 19:18

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

It seems that the power of Accyweb remains as strong as ever since the mythical tongue-in-cheek figure that I attributed to this scheme last year was wheeled out as a hideously embarrassing miscalculation at Cabinet this week.

I was so embarrassed. Pity then that the offending post was attributed to the wrong councillor.

This year I confidently predict that a revised scheme will cost up to twenty quid less than the £6.6m I 'calculated' in 2010 and that we will probably only be able to provide 8bn bags of grit, not the 16bn I originally envisaged.

My apologies for any flippancy which may have escaped the sarcasm detector.

Got your feet under the table then.

lancsdave · 19-09-2011, 19:22

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Originally Posted by garinda

I'd rather the money be spent keeping town centre pavements clear, and safe.

Give over, you'll have Jaysay rattling out his 'shopkeepers' should sweep the pavements speech again

Neil · 19-09-2011, 20:45

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Give over, you'll have Jaysay rattling out his 'shopkeepers' should sweep the pavements speech again

What a good idea

walkinman221 · 19-09-2011, 20:48

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Originally Posted by magpie

took all summer to wash the last lot away..... I personally did not think it was much good....

Dont think so not with the amount of rain we have had this "summer"

Ken Moss · 19-09-2011, 21:40

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Originally Posted by jaysay

See I wasn't wrong our Labour throng are still alive and kick the previous administration at every opportunity, maybe you'd now like to address accymans concerns about the proposed scrapping of clinical waste disposal, the thread he started on the issue must just have skipped your attention Ken

It has actually John, my apologies for being absent for a little while.

The clinical waste collections are going to be one of those neat little ideas that certain people latch on to as a prime example of Labour's scandalous treatment of the electorate and by cutting this vital frontline service it only proves what a bunch of careless morons they really are.

Or something.

In actual fact the clinical waste collections affect less than 60 residents across the whole borough as far as I am aware and changes to classifications of waste mean that there is virtually no loss of amenity at all as it can be safely disposed of with general household waste. The doomsayers out there may be predicting that armies of residents will be forced to flytip tons of radioactive waste and infected needles but the truth is quite different.

A motion on this subject has been moved for Thursday's full council meeting by the Conservatives:

http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...Council_1_.pdf

Eric · 19-09-2011, 21:50

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Originally Posted by magpie

took all summer to wash the last lot away..... I personally did not think it was much good....

Are you saying that the council just leaves the excess there for the elements to get rid of

The council trucks don't give the streets a wash and brush up

Ken Moss · 19-09-2011, 22:12

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Originally Posted by magpie

took all summer to wash the last lot away..... I personally did not think it was much good....

Salt and grit only works effectively at dissolving ice down to a temperature of between -10 and -13 degrees so I am told and in the past two years we have had temperatures down to as low as -22 (if my car thermometer and Rishton Towers barometer are to be believed). What doesn't help is people emptying roadside gritbins to treat their own driveways, leaving the roads and pavements in an even worse state.

As far as remnants of grit being left behind until summer, I can't say I found it to be a problem myself.

Ken Moss · 19-09-2011, 22:18

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Originally Posted by Less

Being a greeny I didn't get last years salt, I certainly won't be ordering any up for this year, I think it's a shame that the world's resources of salt are wasted in this fashion.

Here at Rishton Towers I do my bit by getting the servants to empty ashes from the hearth onto bits of Bridge Street which don't have enough grit.

Works a treat and saves those precious salt reserves.

Ken Moss · 19-09-2011, 22:21

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Originally Posted by jaysay

See I wasn't wrong our Labour throng are still alive and kick the previous administration at every opportunity...

I would have thought that you'd have been quick to point out Peter's contributions to the online world through his Twitter account? He seems very good at holding his own when it comes to knocking the opposition.

I hope nothing libellous comes of it:

Twitter

Neil · 20-09-2011, 06:38

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

As far as remnants of grit being left behind until summer, I can't say I found it to be a problem myself.

I can't remember seeing it hanging around long either.