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Old 10-12-2010, 17:34   #228
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Re: Free grit for all!

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss View Post
A better way of spending £10k would have been to buy four hand gritters at £630 apiece and just under 3 tonnes of grit for each of the 16 wards (at a current valuation of £4 for 25kg). Some wards aren't going to need 3 tonnes on the footpaths and everyone in the borough would have genuinely benefitted without all this rigmarole of phoning up, shovelling into bags and delivering.
I don't think that would be very practical. Where would you hand grit? When would you do it? Who would do it?
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