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Originally Posted by Neil
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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Along the pavements.
When the weather is as severe as last week.
The borough caretakers (not much litter picking to be done when it's frozen under the ice).
To put that idea in perspective, most of the ice is now gone and the majority of wards are still waiting for their grit. If a team of four had gone gritting on the first day and done a minimum of two wards per day it would still have been far quicker. For the money that has been spent you could near enough do the same again when we get another cold snap and you would help more people rather than just the ones who managed to phone up in time.
The grit bags idea was OK in principle but the work, costs and man-hours involved outweigh the benefits of the exercise (unless you count the by-election).