Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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Have they been out near you?
Seems to be that around here they havn't. Some of the main roads are still iced over!
And its been like this for a few days.
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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only main roads. and thats it
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will_doyle
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quote:
Originally posted by Bonney66
Have they been out near you?
Seems to be that around here they havn't. Some of the main roads are still iced over!
And its been like this for a few days.
yh.. they are around.. we aint even had snow.. but ice we have had
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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Grit does fuck all once the snow is more than a few cm thick on the ground, hence why most councils didnt bother wasting time, effort and money throwing it out.
Now the snow has stopped coming down in a lot of places the gritter have been out to turn the now compacted snow on the roads in to slush which will then go.
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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Even some of the main roads around here don't look like they have been done.
Yesterday, the main road near my house was still like a skating rink at about 2 o'clock, Theres have been a few around here like that.
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
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lol there is shag all around here isnt there
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l15ter
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Registered: 1st Feb 08
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some areas they have, but where i live they have done the main road once last week and thats it.but bracknell forest have nearly ran out i heard
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
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There has been nothing. Seen 3 crashes when i was out last night, only drove about a mile.
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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Been out around here, and even on the industrial estate at work.
Bit skiddy approaching the A1 this morning though on a road that is otherwise fine.
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All Torque
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Registered: 17th Nov 05
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Milton Keynes council were on it like a beast when reports of snowfall came in, the next day the roads were nice and clear. No worries.
Beat that, Basingstoke 
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Gareth F
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Registered: 16th Jan 08
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I crashed into a bush this morning at the entrance to the carpark as our artic-lorry had gone sideways and bloked the yard. And i thought 10mph was a safe speed 
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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Have only seen 1 gritter in 2 weeks of all this shite. Sure they are about as the roads are getting gritted (well most of them) but used to see them all the time when the weather was bad. Deffosome cost cutting going on this year me thinks!
First year a lo of pavements seem to have been left untouched as ice rinks too 
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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I've seen a few about, I always seem to be getting pelted by the fuckers anyway!
The pavements are simply shocking. I struggled to walk into town yesterday, I have no idea how anybody elderly is getting about in this, even walking down the garden path was a challenge in itself.
Went flat on my arse getting out my car too, hopefully no nosy neighbours were watching 
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Gareth F
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Registered: 16th Jan 08
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Old people have the electric buggies 
Seen the badboy grip on those monster wheels 
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Hammer
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I read an article the other day, I didn't realise the scale or the fact there is an exact science to it. There has to be set conditions and times etc... I just thought they seen some snow so poured grit on the road to stop it being slippy 
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
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None on main roads or otherwise from our local council, our council are possibly the most corrupt and useless of all of them though.
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
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The gritters are always out on force maybe do the same road 3 times a day and also the plows are out when it snows too
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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Originally posted by Tiger
None on main roads or otherwise from our local council, our council are possibly the most corrupt and useless of all of them though.
Bet there just as bad as St Helens Council. Bunch of useless tossers.
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N16K
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Registered: 4th Oct 04
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None here but the street sweeper was around today, that helped things, now like an ice rink.
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Originally posted by N16K
None here but the street sweeper was around today, that helped things, now like an ice rink.
Think somebody high up got their priorities wrong.
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
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All the main roads have been done but side roads have been left. There's a couple of busy roads that have been untouched which has caused me a few issues.
We had a customers server down for two days who are out in the sticks. We had to get up there today and show our faces and have to do a complete rebuild next tuesday. Was the most dangerous road i have ever been on. Covered in snow and ice. Proper shitting my pants driving up into the moutains knowing if the van steps out, that's me over the edge and possibly dead.
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