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Old 12-12-2010, 18:04   #314
Ken Moss
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Re: Free grit for all!

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Originally Posted by katex View Post
]Remember, surfaces have to be swept of snow first and then gritted, so extremely labour intensive.

Think you are grasping at straws here, Ken, criticising the scheme and desperately trying to come up with other ways (but not thinking them through) ... but brownie point for trying.
Grit works fine on snow-covered pavements, the only real problem comes when the temperature drops below -12 degrees as salt becomes ineffective so I'm told.

As for grasping at straws, you may well think that but the scheme has simply not helped people outside of Baxenden and large parts of Oswaldtwistle in time to deal with the recent cold snap. There were far better ways of spending the same amount of money and helping a wider section of the community.

Someone suggested that they simply grit outwards from the depot in a widening radius. If it had taken a week you would still have helped more than 8,600 homes.

I don't know how it is in other wards that have not received their bags yet but I'm now getting reports from residents in Rishton that they have phoned up again and been told that they aren't due their delivery until late January.

Offering bags of grit to the public is not a terrible idea but a two-week window in November? September or October would have been a better start time for a rolling programme.

I'm still sticking with the idea of blanket gritting by a labour force with nothing else to do.
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