Havent always had a car.....its winter for gods sake and you expect it to be icey and slippery.

so you expect every street in Hull to be gritted or just the hallowed Hotham rd and Bricknell ave.

It all depends on what people want and MORE SPECIFICALLY are willing to pay for.

Most local authorities scaled down their gritting/salting operations over the last decade or so, simply because we didn't suffer from any bad weather to make them necessary.

We had a few unseasonably cold days last February and a few this last couple of weeks. Now all the moaners are out blaming the council/government for not having the facilities to clear any snow/ice before its even had a chance to lay. What do they expect? Maybe the council should keep thousands of tons of salt in store, just in case? Road salt is good for a couple of years only, it then needs disposing of and renewing. You've also got to find and maintain buildings suitable for the storage. Then you've got to buy and maintain vehicles to distribute and spread the salt.

It's all a bit like saying: five years ago, all those south-east Asian countries should've anticipated a tsunami and built suitable flood defences.

We don't often agree but I'm with you on this one.

In all fairness my street hasn't been gritted, but I always presumed that the bus routes were treated. Having visited the Bricknell area this afternoon, it is particularly bad and where is your Christmas spirit Baldy, stop being a Scrooge.

I don't think it's too much to ask for major roads and paths to be gritted. Maybe we should get those paying Community Service to get out there and grit/salt the areas affected.

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Buggerd if i know....wouldnt have botherd me if they hadnt done it....its winter and expect a bit of ice and slipping....Maybe you missed them when they was out gritting the paths round your way.

Whats that got to do with it?

Good point on community service though.

'Cos you're being a bah humbug instead of a sympathetic soul.

There is thousands of people out of work that could do with a bit extra cash this time of the year .. They could do the gritting like they did back in the 1940/50s ..There also had snow shoveller has well ..A bit of hard work wouldn't kill anybody ..I did it for nothing clearing the pitch before a Hull Game in the passed

.....HCC have no idea how to cope with snow and ice...in fact the whole of England has no idea.
Over here we start to prepare the roads in Oct....in fact the Town Councils Budget here in Cochrane (only 14000 people live here) is 10 times the one HCC set aside. The end of the day the HCC big boys would rather take their big bonuses then spend a little extra on sorting the roads and sidewalks......its such a shame.....but it will never change.
YES..it drops to -40degc and we ALL change our tyres to winter ones with studs in over here....but we prepare for the worst.....and if things are not done right by the people with the budgets...we tell them and they listen....