If anyone has any authority over the gritting, please take note...it's coming again on Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They know when the snow and ice come, they just don't grit everywhere on the main routes properly.

Quoted from Greenham Common

They know when the snow and ice come, they just don't grit everywhere on the main routes properly.

What makes you think that gritting is perfect? Surely there are weather conditions that are simply too severe for gritting to suffice.

Perhaps the forewarning of snow to come should ensure that everyone gets plenty of provisions in and, wherever possible, sorts out some work they can do at home.

Quoted from blackdog

What makes you think that gritting is perfect? Surely there are weather conditions that are simply too severe for gritting to suffice. Perhaps the forewarning of snow to come should ensure that everyone gets plenty of provisions in and, wherever possible, sorts out some work they can do at home.

Excuse me if I don't go and clear Burys Bank Road on my own!  We had a few inches of snow, hardly a Polar blizzard.  Like I said, the gritting round my area was rubbish.

Quoted from Greenham Common

Excuse me if I don't go and clear Burys Bank Road on my own!  We had a few inches of snow, hardly a Polar blizzard.  Like I said, the gritting round my area was rubbish.

Surely you have a simple option - don't drive - as you say it was not a polar blizzard, the snow will disappear pretty soon.

Bury's Bank Road is on a primary gritting route and hence should have been gritted as much as the A339, but gritting works best where the traffic is fairly heavy. I used to use Bury's Bank Road as a through route some years back, when it snowed I would use an alternative route. I suspect that many frequent users of that road do the same, so the gritting may well have little effect.

According to the Met Office it's not going to affect us.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_warnings.html?day=3

We are talking about Burys Bank Road Newbury?  Perhaps I'm too easily satisfied - but having seen much worse elsewhere in other Counties, didn't see any reason to complain!  Don't have a 4x4 - just a basic saloon.

Quoted from 40

We are talking about Burys Bank Road Newbury?  Perhaps I'm too easily satisfied - but having seen much worse elsewhere in other Counties, didn't see any reason to complain!  Don't have a 4x4 - just a basic saloon.

Same as me, but the gritting was still poor, if done at all.  Just because else where was worse, doesn't automatically mean here was good.  It wasn't, and that includes Pyle Hill as well.

Of course, it all depends on degree and what your expectations are. Never having been a socialist, don't expect the Council to do absolutely everything for me, so in my view, what was done was more than adequate.  

Quoted from 40

Of course, it all depends on degree and what your expectations are. Never having been a socialist, don't expect the Council to do absolutely everything for me, so in my view, what was done was more than adequate.  

Who said anything about a council doing absolutely everything?

As for expectation, there have been other years when the gritting has been fine (I'm talking about evidence that it has been thoroughly done), so I base it on that.  Mind you, there have been other years when they have screwed it up as well.

Socialist or not, they take Council Tax readily enough.

Wonder how long it took you lot of tossers to get home last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Quoted from 40

Never having been a socialist, don't expect the Council to do absolutely everything for me

Just out of interest, and given your non-socialist viewpoint, what DO you expect the Council to do for you?



Threep.

Quoted from dodgy

Wonder how long it took you lot of tossers to get home last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Not being a tosser there's no need for me to answer. I would ask you the same question but it doesn't look like you get out much.  

Quoted from Threepwood

Just out of interest, and given your non-socialist viewpoint, what DO you expect the Council to do for you?

I know your question wasn't for me but I have a comment to make.  That could be the problem, people expecting the council to do something for them. I don't expect anything other than to do what I can for them, as well as handing over my hard earned spondulicks.

I appreciate that, but he said he didn't want them to do "absolutely everything", by extension therefore, he does expect SOMETHING(S) from them, I merely wondered what a self confessed non-socialist does expect from them.

Threep.