anybody help me with a question i have

opposite hillsboro park on middlewood road there are houses going up to the top of the hill can you tell me what with the frost getting stronger are they going to grit the road or do i have to get the snowboard out to get to the bottom?

your thoughts please

Since there's enough room around the back to park a dozen cars, they'd be mad to use the frontdoor in this ruddy weather!:D

Depends which road it is :confused:

Originally posted by andee
Depends which road it is :confused:

it would be wynyard road near city pine

Do you mean the houses directly across the road from the park entrance closest to the Hilsborough Corner end?

Originally posted by Carmine
Do you mean the houses directly across the road from the park entrance closest to the Hilsborough Corner end?

yes its pretty steep

Originally posted by funkymonkey
yes its pretty steep
I looked round one of those houses a few months back when it was on the market. The front steps are lethal, but there's an access road running round the back to the backdoors of the houses.

So if the residents are using the frontdoor rather than the back at this time of year then they want their heads seeing to.

Originally posted by funkymonkey
yes its pretty steep

So is nearly every other road in Hillsborough, and they're not too bothered about doing those either!

Originally posted by feargal
So is nearly every other road in Hillsborough, and they're not too bothered about doing those either!
Apart from Taplin, where I live.

Nice and flat.

Enjoy your bruised bums if you live on a steep road this holiday season!:hihi:

Originally posted by feargal
So is nearly every other road in Hillsborough, and they're not too bothered about doing those either!


but don't the coucil come and grit the roads to stop obviously people suing the council. theres got to be a few people each winter falling and hurting themselves i know ill be one of them (we all pay council tax)

Originally posted by funkymonkey
but don't the coucil come and grit the roads to stop obviously people suing the council. theres got to be a few people each winter falling and hurting themselves i know ill be one of them (we all pay council tax)
They grit the roads, but not the pavements.

Used to be that you cleared the snow off your little patch of pavement, then people started to sue after they slipped on the ice that formed afterwards...so virtually no one bothers these days.

well thats nice to know looks like getting the climbing gear out aswell then "im going a tumbling"

funky monkey i live on about 3 roads away from you, it was so icey and frosty this morning, it took me half an hour to get down to the tram (bit of an exageration) but still, they should grit the roads, so at least us pedestrians can walk along the road without slipping! :rant:

Originally posted by MissGobby
...they should grit the roads, so at least us pedestrians can walk along the road without slipping! :rant:
I always like this time of year.

They grit the roads and leave the pavements.

So as a pedestrian there are times when you're pretty much forced into the road due to the fact that if you walk on the pavement you face a painful fall on the ice that has formed there.

Some motorists also seem to think that you should just stay on the pavement and accept injury as they try to teach you a lesson by nearly running you over.

Happy xmas...miserable spirited *****!:rant: :rant: :rant:

Originally posted by MissGobby
funky monkey i live on about 3 roads away from you, it was so icey and frosty this morning, it took me half an hour to get down to the tram (bit of an exageration) but still, they should grit the roads, so at least us pedestrians can walk along the road without slipping! :rant:

yes i too have to walk down in the morning to get the tram. Which happens to be a mission, i think i might enter into the figure skating with all the practise im getting trying to stay upright.

its a bit cold also trying to get down there

Spare a thought for me and my boy when it gets icy and snowy. We also live on Taplin and have to walk up Hawthorne Road to get to school. It's bad enough on an ordinary day but is night on impossible when it's slippy. It's never gritted at all and the junction at the top is often sheet black ice. I've seen people and cars slipping and skidding all over as it's that dangerous.

To be honest, when it snows we just don't go to school!

To be honest, when it snows we just don't go to school!

That's the most sensible thing I've read in a while.

Seriously guys, if there's ice on the ground and you don't want to risk falling over, it's no one's fault. Just ring work and take the day off - the world won't end.

It's no ones fault that it gets cold, and anyone who sues an individual or the council because they go out when it's cold and fall/trip/skid needs a major attitude adjustment.

THIS (http://www.20six.co.uk/nextEntries/1mjnxvkptang1) and THIS (http://www.20six.co.uk/nextEntries/13rgbbzo16ocu) Show how awful the hill is. WOuld you attempt to get up and down that in the snow and ice?

Exactly, best stay in the warm I say!

To be fair to them, the council do tend to do a reasonable job gritting the roads all around that section.

And when all is said and done it'll only last a couple of hours and then it will be business as usually with the normal traffic gridlock.

Weather lady has just said that it is not going to be too bad for us...

Just take your wellies to work in case.

which pavements can you walk down? on most roads around holme lane cars are parked on pavements as the roads were not built for all the cars and if they parked legally on the roads no one would be able to drive through:huh:

Originally posted by hotphil
That's the most sensible thing I've read in a while.

Seriously guys, if there's ice on the ground and you don't want to risk falling over, it's no one's fault. Just ring work and take the day off - the world won't end.

It's no ones fault that it gets cold, and anyone who sues an individual or the council because they go out when it's cold and fall/trip/skid needs a major attitude adjustment.

I blame the Americans, we seem to have adopted their sue the pants off everybody for the slightest little thing attitude... Damn you George bleedin' Bush! :rant:

I know this statement will upset the PC brigade and the loony left, but I don't care so yeh.

Originally posted by Rich
I know this statement will upset the PC brigade and the loony left, but I don't care so yeh.

How will it upset the PC brigade (who ever they are!) and the loony left? :suspect:

On the subject of ice, do they still have those yellow grit boxes? Maybe time for a bit of community involvement!? The council can't be everywhere.

Unfortunately the gritters cannot get to some of these roads because of parked cars on either side. They just cannot get past.

dont worry soon our fabulous councill will be charging to park outside our own houses and when we start paying a £8-£10 congestion charge we wont be able to afford cars and we can all get horses and keep them in our back yards

Originally posted by Andy
How will it upset the PC brigade (who ever they are!) and the loony left? :suspect:

On the subject of ice, do they still have those yellow grit boxes? Maybe time for a bit of community involvement!? The council can't be everywhere.

grit boxes are full of rubbish and few and far between,

i remember as a kid taking out sledge and filling it with grit dragging it back hope ( two raods away) and gritting the path
outside for me mum and neigbours and the cops came, an old lady had reported us stealing grit, dont know what she thought we were doing with it

so much for doing good

Originally posted by Carmine
They grit the roads, but not the pavements.



They always seem to manage to get grit well over the pavement near my house and more often than not onto the car aswell.

Mind you the speed one went past our house Tuesday night, I'm surprised if he put the required amount down!!!

They always seem to manage to get grit well over the pavement near my house and more often than not onto the car aswell.
"Damned if they do, damned if they don't" springs to mind.