Excessive Gritting

[omj624p]

Does anyone else live in a town that is as moronic and money wasting as mine?

 

Sodding gritters - the stupid council here thinks that any day that doesnt rain then they must put grit down. Useless twats.

 

Today is the first dry day in ages, and therefore a potential good day for me to get my escort out. But no, the damn gritters are out in force wasting all their time and the tax payers money. Theres no way in a million years that DRY roads will suddenly become covered in black ice or anything. It's not going to snow and it's not cold enough yet.

 

Idiots - I hate it here sometimes. I also know people in the council that admit they do this for the public confidence, but they also admit that too much gritting actually makes it more slippy than untreated roads!!! So why do they do it?? It drives me mad and makes my blood boil.

 

So just to keep me sane, has anyone else seen gritters out today in their town? I bet there's not many. But prove me wrong and make me feel better

 

[Muttley MK2]

Nope Sorry! Go and let all their tyres down

[ratman]

I as you may know work for a local council

 

I’m afraid its a case of dammed if we do dammed if we don’t

All local councils get there weather reports from the met office and if the met office say its going to cold enough to freeze or snow we HAVE to grit

 

But as we all know the met office couldn’t predict the weather with there £1,000,000,000 of equipment

 

My old Nan and her bit of sea weed did a better job

 

But if we don’t go out and it freezes and people crash & die we get sued :sad:

[omj624p]

I cant wait for the days (like the good old days) where people start taking responsibility for their own actions.

 

Hmmm, it's winter, its cold, it wet on the roads... I wonder if I should drive a bit more carefully?

[Twinkle]

I as you may know work for a local council

 

I’m afraid its a case of dammed if we do dammed if we don’t

All local councils get there weather reports from the met office and if the met office say its going to cold enough to freeze or snow we HAVE to grit

 

But as we all know the met office couldn’t predict the weather with there £1,000,000,000 of equipment

 

My old Nan and her bit of sea weed did a better job

 

But if we don’t go out and it freezes and people crash & die we get sued :sad:

 

i would personally rather them be over gritted than not gritted, have seen the consequences of ungritted road

[omj624p]

but they also admit that too much gritting actually makes it more slippy than untreated roads!!!

 

 

Ratman (or anyone) is this bit true??

[razersedge]

I cant wait for the days (like the good old days) where people start taking responsibility for their own actions.

 

Hmmm, it's winter, its cold, it wet on the roads... I wonder if I should drive a bit more carefully?

 

last time it snowed some bmw tanked past me at about 85-90mph at the next bend i slowed down to check he was alright and laughed in his face as i drove off and left him with a written off bmw in the ditch

[antz]

i came back from town in the dark the other day thinking that it had snaowed cos the grit was that thick

[sab6024]

last time it snowed some bmw tanked past me at about 85-90mph at the next bend i slowed down to check he was alright and laughed in his face as i drove off and left him with a written off bmw in the ditch

 

I've always wanted to do that but I'm just cruel

[mk3cokebottle]

I cant wait for the days (like the good old days) where people start taking responsibility for their own actions.

 

Hmmm, it's winter, its cold, it wet on the roads... I wonder if I should drive SIDEWAYS TODAY

[bortaf]

well you know the saying "you can't please all the people all the time"

think i'd rather have grit than no car left cos i'd stuffed it on black ice (which there was plenty of round here last night) in fact the ice started forming in the Essex country side about 2 hours after the gritters went out

[bob wiggins]

going gritting tonight at 8 all around ascot and windlesham

[Vista]

My old Nan and her bit of sea weed did a better job

 

 

And you can get an exotic seaweed brew out of it once you've had the forecast