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| Quote Odemwingie="Odemwingie"Teacher?'"
No a student, but thank you. 
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| Makes me laugh how some people have a big sulking hissy fit over the weather. "Why aren't the council making it go away?"
Just deal with it, see the funny side of it and it'll all be gone before you know it. All this talk of lawsuits if someone slips on a bit of ice is absolutely nonsensical.
Just think what people in the past have had to deal with or people in other parts of the world right now. I feel embarrassed for some people with the attitudes they show. |
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| Quote Bilko="Bilko"Apparently Wigan Council has 10 gritter wagons that have to cover all of Wigan and Leigh.
It did come all of a sudden over night. I was up late and it was rain till about 3am then it turned to heavy snow.
You also have to take into account the staff. One worker for another council said he had done over 100 hours overtime during christmas period to try and keep things going. If they employed loads of men and we have a mild winter, some people (not naming any names) would moan we were wasting cash on them.
The reason things are worse these days is a, the buggers that are [urlhttp://www.hse.gov.uk/[/url and b, the amount of cars on the road compared to 20 years has increased dramatically whilst public transport standards have decreased. People also have to travel further to work with most of the local factories having closed.'"
have seen the unemployment figures?
its not beyond the bounds of the council to employ TEMPS over winter, like shops do for christmas., then if the snow comes we have the man power.
but what about the means?
like a later poster says (im not quoting so i dont post twice) they DO stockpile grit and salt.
so why dont they stockpile it year in year out and let the pile get bigger for occasions like these?
its called forward thinking......sumat most local authorities have never heard of.
i would be happy for the council to employ extra men, spend extra on stockpiles, if it meant i could get off my estate to go shopping and that my bin got emptied. |
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| Quote wigan pie man="wigan pie man"have seen the unemployment figures?
its not beyond the bounds of the council to employ TEMPS over winter, like shops do for christmas., then if the snow comes we have the man power.
but what about the means?
like a later poster says (im not quoting so i dont post twice) they DO stockpile grit and salt.
so why dont they stockpile it year in year out and let the pile get bigger for occasions like these?
its called forward thinking......sumat most local authorities have never heard of.
i would be happy for the council to employ extra men, spend extra on stockpiles, if it meant i could get off my estate to go shopping and that my bin got emptied.'"
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| Quote Pemps="Pemps"I managed to get my lad to school at the top of Miles Lane but getting out of my street was a pain. I didn't attempt Appley Lane North or Back Lane.'"
Back Lane wasn't too bad.
However it does seem that they're only gritting from Hullet Close upwards, must be going through Woodnook estate.
If it freezes the bottom is going to be frightening.
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In Sheffield they have CIty Centre Ambassadors, I'm not entirely certain what they do other than just wander around looking like they feel important. Today a few council peeps were out shovelling snow while said ambassadors did bugger all. I saw at least six of them just wandering about A few more shovels and grit and things would have been much easier.
It was like a ghost town though, spookily quiet in the centre as no one could get there!
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| Quote Cronus="Cronus"
. Of course we could prepare for these conditions every year, have dozens of unused gritters sitting around for 20 years until they might be needed, hire additional staff just in case and add £50 to your council tax to pay for it all?
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sitting around gritters cost nowt to run.
we could use the present workforce to stockpile even more grit/sand in summer instead of doing what seem to be unecessary tasks (like watering hanging baskets to keep em occupied)...again no extra cost.
and we have just paid the bin men 3 weeks wages for about 2 days work....so the extra temp staff (see previous post) would more than make up for it without having to add to the council tax bills.
and the wigan economy would benefit by people being able to shop in shops that the shop workers could get to.
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| Quote The Rocket="The Rocket"And what would these temps do?'"
spread sand and grit on the pavements in a short cold snap, and clean the streets in a warm winter.
in a bad winter its obvious |
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| Quote wigan pie man="wigan pie man"Quote wigan pie man="Cronus"
. Of course we could prepare for these conditions every year, have dozens of unused gritters sitting around for 20 years until they might be needed, hire additional staff just in case and add £50 to your council tax to pay for it all?
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sitting around gritters cost nowt to run.
we could use the present workforce to stockpile even more grit/sand in summer instead of doing what seem to be unecessary tasks (like watering hanging baskets to keep em occupied)...again no extra cost.
and we have just paid the bin men 3 weeks wages for about 2 days work....so the extra temp staff (see previous post) would more than make up for it without having to add to the council tax bills.
and the wigan economy would benefit by people being able to shop in shops that the shop workers could get to.'" '"
And the council won a fleet of extra gritters in a charity tombola i suppose? |
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| Quote wigan pie man="wigan pie man"spread sand and grit on the pavements in a short cold snap, and clean the streets in a warm winter.
in a bad winter its obvious'"
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| Quote The Rocket="The Rocket"Of the entire borough?'"
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