Regacy

Interesting thread,
I don't know about issues of responsibility for gritting, there seems to be quite a strong expectation that someone should grit the road if the conditions could be improved by doing so and I'm inclined to agree.
In most areas of life risks are minimised and over the last couple of decades changes in health and safety regulations have ensured most places of work are much safer than they used to be; building sites, factories, production lines.
Even crossing the road; more pedestrian crossings untold numbers of traffic calming measures and the odd speed camera.
Whether or not it is the council’s responsibility to grit the road is largely irrelevant,
I EXPECT THE ROAD TO BE GRITTED.
an icy road is such an obvious danger that is relatively easily avoided I can't see a viable justification for not doing it!
Accurate weather forecasts mean you can see it coming...
And we're only talking about a bit of sand and salt, it's hardly going to break the bank.
In fact I'd go so far as to say whoever owns the gritting lorries has a moral obligation to make sure they avoid a reoccurrence of this mornings fiasco.
I don't know what happened to any of the individuals involved in the accidents I witnessed this morning I sincerely hope they are all ok, if any of them got hurt for the want of a bit of sand and salt………………………………………

blair

I'd expect the council to be doing their best to grit roads as well - especially where it is known ice is causing a problem. Gritting aint exaclty high tech though - you throw tons of salt ans sand on the road and hope that it deals with all the ice

My main gripe was, I guess, aimed at those who jump in their car first thing in the morning and because they expect the roads from the end of their driveway to the car park at work to have been gritted especially for their journey drive like they know the roads have been gritted :grr:

FFS if its frosty assume the roads haven't been gritted and you'll probably get there without incident. It's those that drive assuming that grit has been put down and that it will have cleared all ice that wind me up. They deserve to end up in a ditch - as long as they don't take me out on the way there


Edited to add that I'm not having a dig at anyone on this board in particular - mostly those that belt past me on the exposed bits of dual carriageway that I take it easier on because I know that they are more exposed to frost

[Edited by blair - 12/9/2003 10:00:52 AM]