How come? - A snow and roads related topic.

WillowTheWhisp · 12-03-2006, 21:29

This morning on our way to and from Blackburn we noticed that the roads in Hyndburn were full of snow and that gritting was conspicuous by its absence. In contrast the main roads in the Blackburn area were clear despite the fact that snow lay on the pavements and in the side roads. This was glaringly obvious on Blackburn/Accrington road when leaving Hyndburn and enetring the Blackburn boundaries. A bit of Hyndburn's snow had been carried over into Blackburn by vehicles going that way and a bit of Blackburn's grit had been carried our way by vehicles coming in the opposite direction.

Why should there be this difference I wonder?

K.S.H · 12-03-2006, 21:35

There too tight to pay the workers double time, thats my thoughts on it anyway :-)

chav1 · 12-03-2006, 21:39

all the way through bolton the roads were clear yet once i hit darwen there wasnt even a sighn that gritters had been out and ozzy and accrinton were even worse

shillelagh · 12-03-2006, 22:52

Blackburn is a unitary authority Hyndburn comes under Lancashire. Lancashire county council is responsible for gritting the roads in Hyndburn. That is probably why.

WillowTheWhisp · 12-03-2006, 23:02

In other words, Blackburn has got its act together?

harwood red · 12-03-2006, 23:06

Hey i can assure you, working in blackburn the moan as much as us lot do about the state of the roads. and reading what counc Jones put it seems that HBC still do the gritting round here

Neil · 12-03-2006, 23:18

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Originally Posted by harwood red

reading what counc Jones put it seems that HBC still do the gritting round here

They do but it stated in the Observer they do what Lancashire says because Lancashire pays for it. We had a lot more snow over here than in Blackburn. My parents live that way and did not get that much. I went as far as Intack this morning and Blackburn road was terrible. I saw the gritters out but the snow was coming down quite heavy and the gritting wasn't making much difference at first. A few hours later and the roads were looking a lot better.
Which is more than I can say about the drivers.

WillowTheWhisp · 12-03-2006, 23:18

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Originally Posted by harwood red

HBC still do the gritting round here

..............or not, as the case may be.

harwood red · 12-03-2006, 23:26

You may be right there willow. But then again there are those of the thought that sometimes it depends on the type of snow on whether you should grit or not

Acrylic-bob · 13-03-2006, 08:00

I was out and about at 6:00am on Sunday morning and there was not a gritter in sight before it beagan to snow. The first gritter that came through Rishton, passed at 10:30am.

They cannot claim that they did not know that it was going to snow, because it had been forecast for almost the whole of last week.

I think that we should have answers from Jean Battle about why the gritters were only sent out once it had begun to snow and not in advance of it.

I also think that we should be hearing from Britcliffe too, and I do not expect to hear the usual weasel words about "Key routes" and all the other usual excuses for the incomepetant way in which HBC and LCC manage things on our behalf. I am getting sick to the back teeth of listening to all the buck passing that goes on whenever one, or both of them get it wrong.

lettie · 13-03-2006, 09:10

I beg to differ about Blackburn. Haslingden road from the motorway to Queens Park was horrendous at 11.45 when I got to work, and wasn't much better when I was coming home. They may have done the town centre, but the hospital route was treacherous...