Gritters ?

[LANDROVER ROGER]

The steep roads and bends around Grogport were tricky enough on a wet day in early autumn.Is there some legal liability with regard to the local council being charged with ensuring that the highways are safe for the user?

[the special one]

i stay in the village and if u had taken the time to read jd's comment landrover you wouls see that his pic's were from last sat morn,my comment about the gritters passing by my house every nite this week doesnt include last sat morn

[LANDROVER ROGER]

i stay in the village and if u had taken the time to read jd's comment landrover you wouls see that his pic's were from last sat morn,my comment about the gritters passing by my house every nite this week doesnt include last sat morn

Keep your hair on!It was a minor attempt at humour.

[Bobh]

I live in the Southside of Glasgow and the roads and pavements were shocking. Main roads a bit better but over a couple of days no real inprovement in the side streets. The pavements wer like skating rinks, even the dog was sliding about. This is about the worst i have ever experinced and considering i have lived in Glasgow all my life, things like a lack of griiting appears to be getting worse. A poor how by the council who generally do a good job.

[LANDROVER ROGER]

I can remember when the council would have flat-back lorries in towns and workmen would scatter grit on to the pavements.
Perhaps health and safety issues prevent the manual lifting of shovels.

[Tubby the Tuba]

I can remember when the council would have flat-back lorries in towns and workmen would scatter grit on to the pavements.
Perhaps health and safety issues prevent the manual lifting of shovels.

They can manage to pick up a shovel and fling cold tar into the potholes well enough tho.....

Anyway I see theyre carting sand from Langa quarry to use as grit for the roads now, they mustve used all their salt grit up already, spreading every night in Carradale!!!

[Beachcomber]

Whoa! That looks like it could have been a fun descent into Grogport, JD. No telling what would have happened had you met another car trying to come up at the same time.

Trouble is that road isn't given much regard by the council. They hardly seem to acknowledge that it even exists.

One thing that annoyed me about the council's gritting policy is that they were happy to send a gritter up the A83 from Campbeltown, round the ferry terminal at Kennacraig, then up and across to Skipness where they then turn round and re-trace the same route back to Campbeltown. Why on earth couldn't they do the return run via the B842 and Carradale?

[Beachcomber]

Anyway I see they're carting sand from Langa quarry to use as grit for the roads now, they must've used all their salt grit up already, spreading every night in Carradale!!!

They've been throwing the grit around like water up here. We had a fresh delivery a few weeks ago.

Literally a mountain of the stuff:

[MIZZY]

I can remember when the council would have flat-back lorries in towns and workmen would scatter grit on to the pavements.
Perhaps health and safety issues prevent the manual lifting of shovels.

They can manage to pick up a shovel and fling cold tar into the potholes well enough tho.....

Anyway I see theyre carting sand from Langa quarry to use as grit for the roads now, they mustve used all their salt grit up already, spreading every night in Carradale!!!

Nice to see someone has got a good word for the Roadworkers

[LANDROVER ROGER]

Yes.Apparently one of them phoned the foreman to say that the new shovels had not arrived.He told them to lean on each other until they got them.

[sooze]

A good one in Southend re gritters not using a circular route is that they come down to the village go to Keil and turn back and sometimes they come back and go round the hill to come out a Keprigan. Thus the village gets a double coat and those going round the sign posted Mull of Kintyre road take their chance.

Sooze

[Gritman]

A good one in Southend re gritters not using a circular route is that they come down to the village go to Keil and turn back and sometimes they come back and go round the hill to come out a Keprigan. Thus the village gets a double coat and those going round the sign posted Mull of Kintyre road take their chance.

Sooze

As far as i know the gritters go to Keil car park then they SWITCH OFF the gritter then return through the village NOT gritting so Southend doesnt get a double coating as that would be wasting tax payers money!

[Gritman]

I can remember when the council would have flat-back lorries in towns and workmen would scatter grit on to the pavements.
Perhaps health and safety issues prevent the manual lifting of shovels.

They can manage to pick up a shovel and fling cold tar into the potholes well enough tho.....

Anyway I see theyre carting sand from Langa quarry to use as grit for the roads now, they mustve used all their salt grit up already, spreading every night in Carradale!!!

Tubby the Tuba - you seem to be really against the Council Road Workers, why is that? Have you been turned down for a job with them in the past

All i can say is that going by your comments on here, you must have alot of time when your 'working' to notice what is going on with the Road Workers

[rainbowsprite]

Gritman, I think the road workers are in an unfortunate position that they are out working in full view of the general public. Everyone sees them when they are going about their daily business. Most of us are in a fortunate position we have buildings to 'hide' in when we go about our day to day work.

I don't think the public appreciate that the roads squad are told by the supervisors what work needs done and how they should go about it. In alot of cases budget limitations will mean that a temporary job had to be done until full funding becomes available. I am sure the workers would rather do a good job than a quick fix.

We live in a society which seems to take more pleasure from putting people down, rather than praising when a good job is done.

So thanks to you all who have to go out at all times of day and night keeping the roads clear (I know I couldn't do it!)

[Gritman]

I can remember when the council would have flat-back lorries in towns and workmen would scatter grit on to the pavements.
Perhaps health and safety issues prevent the manual lifting of shovels.

nearly true rodger .no ones to travel on the back o lorrys health and safety prevents this from happening. but im sure u know this.at this time o year lots o people are glad to see the roadworkers.