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Dec 21 2009, 08:08 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Dec 21 2009, 07:49 PM) Just seen the gritter lorry edging down the hill in Kiln Road. Both ways down and up an absolute nightmare! Seeing the amber lights a lady stood by me said with some feeling - 'look at that, couldn't you just give him a kiss'. Having driven a fair bit through the South today; WBC have done a great job. You can't beat nature, but these lads have just kept going. From a grateful motorist - many thanks, effort much appreciated. You presumably haven't been in Newbury this afternoon.
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Dec 21 2009, 08:12 PM
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Dec 21 2009, 08:08 PM) I think they've done a great job as well. And I really hate WBC. Odd; I don't hate WBC, but I have seen little evidence that there has been sufficient gritting.
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Dec 21 2009, 08:15 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Dec 21 2009, 08:12 PM) Odd; I don't hate WBC, but I have seen little evidence that there has been sufficient gritting. Pop over to Basingstoke and try coming back via Reading.
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Dec 21 2009, 08:20 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Dec 21 2009, 08:15 PM) Pop over to Basingstoke and try coming back via Reading. I think whether or not anywhere else is better or worse, is besides the point.
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Dec 21 2009, 09:01 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Dec 21 2009, 08:20 PM) I think whether or not anywhere else is better or worse, is besides the point. Not really, it might just be indicative of a touch of reality. Staff are now looking forward (?) to spending the night in the AA building in B'stoke
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Dec 21 2009, 10:59 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Dec 21 2009, 10:56 PM) Then they should have been gritted this morning, as the forecast this morning might have suggested. BTW - saying they didn't do a good job isn't to say they didn't try. Heavy snow wasn't forecast this morning, "a light dusting" is what they said. Should they grit every day, just in case it snows?
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Dec 21 2009, 11:02 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Dec 21 2009, 10:59 PM) Heavy snow wasn't forecast this morning, "a light dusting" is what they said. Should they grit every day, just in case it snows? When it doesn't get above, or barely above freezing, then perhaps they should. It is this that is the problem. It has remained very cold.
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Dec 21 2009, 11:04 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Dec 21 2009, 11:02 PM) When it doesn't get above, or barely above freezing, then perhaps they should. It is this that is the problem. It has remained very cold. Who's going to pay for that then?
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Dec 21 2009, 11:06 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Dec 21 2009, 11:04 PM) Who's going to pay for that then? Us. Driving round the south of Newbury and Greenham over the past few days, the gritting was barely detectable.
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Dec 21 2009, 11:11 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Dec 21 2009, 11:06 PM) Us. Driving round the south of Newbury and Greenham over the past few days, the gritting was barely detectable. Any idea how much gritting every day in the winter might potentially cost us taxpayers?
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Dec 21 2009, 11:20 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Dec 21 2009, 11:11 PM) Any idea how much gritting every day in the winter might potentially cost us taxpayers? I don't know, do you? Well we be better find out, because everyone will suffer if not. Like I said, I think the gritting has been sparse in the South of West Berkshire. I'm not suggesting that gritting is required everyday, but what has been put down, seems to have had little affect round here.
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