Bradford and district hit by more snow (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

It was 2 inch deep on all roads at 11.30 last night,why werent the gritters out then when there was very little traffic about,this council is worse than useless there will be many elderly and infirm people now on their own this christmas because either they cant get out or their relatives wont be able to reach them.Well done to the council for your inept service you should be ashamed or yourselves.

Roads okay in Bingley. Its not until you get to Canal Road that it goes pear shaped.

giveover wrote:
It was 2 inch deep on all roads at 11.30 last night,why werent the gritters out then when there was very little traffic about,this council is worse than useless there will be many elderly and infirm people now on their own this christmas because either they cant get out or their relatives wont be able to reach them.Well done to the council for your inept service you should be ashamed or yourselves.

What a croc s**t! How many gritters do you think Bradford Council have?

Lets put your council tax up £100 to pay for more!

hector0007 wrote:

giveover wrote: It was 2 inch deep on all roads at 11.30 last night,why werent the gritters out then when there was very little traffic about,this council is worse than useless there will be many elderly and infirm people now on their own this christmas because either they cant get out or their relatives wont be able to reach them.Well done to the council for your inept service you should be ashamed or yourselves.

What a croc s**t! How many gritters do you think Bradford Council have? Lets put your council tax up £100 to pay for more!

Last night when the heaviest snow fell it would appear they had no gritters,if you are happy with the service being provided over the last week fair enough but i and there will be a lot of people very unsatisfied.

1 gritter was gritting a car park at 12.30am and one was stopped at a butty shop this morning!

The gritting and clearing in my area has been better this year than for a very long time, I accept that may not be the experience of some and not every road and path can be treated.

To be fair I think they have done a decent job given the conditions.

Bradford covers a vast area and I'm not sure how many gritters they have but they will never be enough when you get snow like this. Like an earlier poster said, would you accept a £100 council tax hike to pay for loads more ?

I know it's not fashionable amongst certain quarters to praise bfd council, but I think they did a good job. I left Baildon at 5.30am to drive to Shelf. Roads were well gritted and it was an easy 25 min journey, no longer than usual. I hope I'm not tempting fate, but I've had no problems all week.

Mike Strutter wrote:
To be fair I think they have done a decent job given the conditions. Bradford covers a vast area and I'm not sure how many gritters they have but they will never be enough when you get snow like this. Like an earlier poster said, would you accept a £100 council tax hike to pay for loads more ?

Decent job,try getting around Eccleshill especially the as yet untreated roads and pavements.

An easy and cheap solution (if the council are a bit hard up!!!!) would be for every household to pay an extra couple of quid per year and buy more grit boxes (and keep them stocked of course !!!!!) for side roads and housing estates.
After several requests this week, our grit box has been supplied with grit and from not being able to get cars up the road, it has taken 2 people just 30 mins shovelling grit to clear the road.
If the council supply the boxes and grit then I don't think many people would have a problem with sorting out the residential roads themselves, leaving the grit trucks to keep the main roads clear.

I work for the council on the parks section and around 8-10 lads from Peel Park have been starting in the early hours of the day for over a week now gritting Car Parks in the City Centre for about 6-7 hours non stop, also 4 of the lads are gritting paths/pavements in the centre and main roads. Last Thursday we were called in at 7pm to grit the Car Parks and did not finish till 11pm, we were out again at 5am the following day. We often have to start at 2am to get all the sites ( including 3 large schools, Social Service Offices, NHS Hospital in Eccleshill and Children's Homes ). Also how many people are on the dole in this city??? get the lazy gits out of their warm beds and do some work for a change.

A worse than pathetic service and not a word from the Council.......that says it all!

Agree entirely with Steptoe's comments above, each road should be provided with a grit bin. I put in a request to get our road gritted via the Council's website 5 DAYS AGO and I have still never received a reply, and the road has never been gritted. 2 neighbours went to another street which has a grit bin with a wheelbarrow, brought some back and did the road themselves. What exactly do we pay our council tax for?

howmuch wrote:
I work for the council on the parks section and around 8-10 lads from Peel Park have been starting in the early hours of the day for over a week now gritting Car Parks in the City Centre for about 6-7 hours non stop, also 4 of the lads are gritting paths/pavements in the centre and main roads. Last Thursday we were called in at 7pm to grit the Car Parks and did not finish till 11pm, we were out again at 5am the following day. We often have to start at 2am to get all the sites ( including 3 large schools, Social Service Offices, NHS Hospital in Eccleshill and Children's Homes ). Also how many people are on the dole in this city??? get the lazy gits out of their warm beds and do some work for a change.

Nice generalisation there. Not all people 'on the dole' are 'lazy gits'. In fact, the vast majority of them would do amything to have a secure job in the Public Sector with a solid pension

This dole scrounger has not been able to work for two years owing to a smashed and then ampuated leg. I am desperate to get back to work as soon as the medics permit and I am able to find employment (it's a little scarce at the moment).

However, I still obtained my own rock salt and gritted the pavement around my Property whilst balancing one-legged. Not bad for a lazy git!

Gritting the car parks eh ?

Nice to know that they were making sure the revenue earning car parks were clear even if the means of getting to them were not.

I hope people crying out for Tory government nationally will take a look at the actions of this Local group before taking the plunge.

Dr Evil wrote:

howmuch wrote:
I work for the council on the parks section and around 8-10 lads from Peel Park have been starting in the early hours of the day for over a week now gritting Car Parks in the City Centre for about 6-7 hours non stop, also 4 of the lads are gritting paths/pavements in the centre and main roads. Last Thursday we were called in at 7pm to grit the Car Parks and did not finish till 11pm, we were out again at 5am the following day. We often have to start at 2am to get all the sites ( including 3 large schools, Social Service Offices, NHS Hospital in Eccleshill and Children's Homes ). Also how many people are on the dole in this city??? get the lazy gits out of their warm beds and do some work for a change.

Nice generalisation there. Not all people 'on the dole' are 'lazy gits'. In fact, the vast majority of them would do amything to have a secure job in the Public Sector with a solid pension

This dole scrounger has not been able to work for two years owing to a smashed and then ampuated leg. I am desperate to get back to work as soon as the medics permit and I am able to find employment (it's a little scarce at the moment).

However, I still obtained my own rock salt and gritted the pavement around my Property whilst balancing one-legged. Not bad for a lazy git!

I apologize for what I said, not everybody who on is on the dole is a lazy git. It was mainly towards the foreign people who come over here getting free handouts and free health care who I was talking about.

huxleyp wrote:
Gritting the car parks eh ?

Nice to know that they were making sure the revenue earning car parks were clear even if the means of getting to them were not.

I hope people crying out for Tory government nationally will take a look at the actions of this Local group before taking the plunge.

We also get told to make sure the area around the ticket machine is well gritted lol.

hector0007 wrote:

giveover wrote: It was 2 inch deep on all roads at 11.30 last night,why werent the gritters out then when there was very little traffic about,this council is worse than useless there will be many elderly and infirm people now on their own this christmas because either they cant get out or their relatives wont be able to reach them.Well done to the council for your inept service you should be ashamed or yourselves.

What a croc s**t! How many gritters do you think Bradford Council have? Lets put your council tax up £100 to pay for more!

How right you are ramp up the tax to pay for better services. Sod the flat screen TVs and DVDs (hopefully VAT will soon be 30% on these anyway). Stop whinging, you get what you pay for, NHS (crap) road gritting (crap) police (crap) what do you expect?

Up with the partridge wrote:

hector0007 wrote:

giveover wrote: It was 2 inch deep on all roads at 11.30 last night,why werent the gritters out then when there was very little traffic about,this council is worse than useless there will be many elderly and infirm people now on their own this christmas because either they cant get out or their relatives wont be able to reach them.Well done to the council for your inept service you should be ashamed or yourselves.

What a croc s**t! How many gritters do you think Bradford Council have? Lets put your council tax up £100 to pay for more!

How right you are ramp up the tax to pay for better services. Sod the flat screen TVs and DVDs (hopefully VAT will soon be 30% on these anyway). Stop whinging, you get what you pay for, NHS (crap) road gritting (crap) police (crap) what do you expect?

If it wasnt for the NHS I wouldnt be here writing this now! And I have been pleased with the gritting and clearing efforts in my own area, obviously your own experience differs from that.

huxleyp wrote:
Gritting the car parks eh ? Nice to know that they were making sure the revenue earning car parks were clear even if the means of getting to them were not. I hope people crying out for Tory government nationally will take a look at the actions of this Local group before taking the plunge.

To be fair if cars can get parked it means less congestion on the roads (ie not abandoned on pavements) and allows not only the council to generate car park revenues to keep our council tax lower but also keeps businesses/offices/l
ocal govt functioning by helping people to get to work.

It is probably more effective in terms of bigger impact to clear the car parks than focusing a team of labourers on a single road. For example you'd probably then have rows over whether resource should be focused on Canal Road v Manchester Road vs Toller Lane for example.

Surely the road clearing job is not for the labourers but the gritter wagons?

For the record I cont believe they have done a bad job with road clearing today and it will probably melt overnight.
Anyway is the record of 'the national group' anything to commend voting for Labour?

albion wrote:

Up with the partridge wrote:

hector0007 wrote:

giveover wrote: It was 2 inch deep on all roads at 11.30 last night,why werent the gritters out then when there was very little traffic about,this council is worse than useless there will be many elderly and infirm people now on their own this christmas because either they cant get out or their relatives wont be able to reach them.Well done to the council for your inept service you should be ashamed or yourselves.

What a croc s**t! How many gritters do you think Bradford Council have? Lets put your council tax up £100 to pay for more!

How right you are ramp up the tax to pay for better services. Sod the flat screen TVs and DVDs (hopefully VAT will soon be 30% on these anyway). Stop whinging, you get what you pay for, NHS (crap) road gritting (crap) police (crap) what do you expect?

If it wasnt for the NHS I wouldnt be here writing this now! And I have been pleased with the gritting and clearing efforts in my own area, obviously your own experience differs from that.

You were obviously seriously ill if you are happy with the NHS, that is after all where they excel. My brother in law would not be here were it not for the efforts of BRI's ICU. Different story when he got to Ward 2 (rubbish). Glad you are well Happy Christmas.

Having worked nights all this week I think the roads haven't been too bad, given the sudden snowfall last night. There have still been the ususal numpty drivers who haven.t the sense to drive to the road conditions but that's their funeral (hopefully). As for the comment about the gritter drivers having a sandwich......don't you eat when you're working then?

Last night just before the snow started, a gritter came up our street. That was the third gritter I saw yesterday. As soon as there was a break in the snow the gritter was back again.
Today the gritter has been past at least three times and this is not a bus route.
Granted the next street has not been gritted but it is still possible to get down that street with care, even if going up would be tricky.
There is no way that every street in an area the size of Bradford can be gritted immediately after a snow fall but I think that given the pressure of the job, the gritter drivers and the guys with the wheelbarrows and shovels, all deserve a big 'Thank You'.
The real problem is to get the same sort of dedication out of the faceless numpties on the council.

howmuch wrote:
I work for the council on the parks section and around 8-10 lads from Peel Park have been starting in the early hours of the day for over a week now gritting Car Parks in the City Centre for about 6-7 hours non stop, also 4 of the lads are gritting paths/pavements in the centre and main roads. Last Thursday we were called in at 7pm to grit the Car Parks and did not finish till 11pm, we were out again at 5am the following day. We often have to start at 2am to get all the sites ( including 3 large schools, Social Service Offices, NHS Hospital in Eccleshill and Children's Homes ). Also how many people are on the dole in this city??? get the lazy gits out of their warm beds and do some work for a change.

If you're on the dole and clearing snow, then you're not available for work and thus can't claim the dole.

webess wrote:

howmuch wrote:
I work for the council on the parks section and around 8-10 lads from Peel Park have been starting in the early hours of the day for over a week now gritting Car Parks in the City Centre for about 6-7 hours non stop, also 4 of the lads are gritting paths/pavements in the centre and main roads. Last Thursday we were called in at 7pm to grit the Car Parks and did not finish till 11pm, we were out again at 5am the following day. We often have to start at 2am to get all the sites ( including 3 large schools, Social Service Offices, NHS Hospital in Eccleshill and Children's Homes ). Also how many people are on the dole in this city??? get the lazy gits out of their warm beds and do some work for a change.

If you're on the dole and clearing snow, then you're not available for work and thus can't claim the dole.

Not heard of voluntary work then?.

why grit the city center ,,,its a dump, who wants to go ther?

More snow the better to hide the run down city