Grit on the Downs
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KITT said:
Can anyone explain why Bristol shitty council think it's a good idea to grit the roads running through the Downs in the hottest weather we've had all year?
I was wondering this on Saturday, they were doing the airport road also, bloody ridiculous hold ups ensued and the car was none too happy either (but held on)
I believe i had a similar conversation with the missus at the time... except twas a little more colourful
It's so the accidents in that area go up.
This will justify them installing more speed cameras.
When they don't grit next year and the accidents go down.
The statistics will show how cleaver they were to install the cameras.
They will give themselves a big bonus and everybody thinks of them in a nice fluffy way.
Me? I want to harm them... I thought I'd left this nonsense behind when I moved darn sarf from the land of the 'chippings on road'. Guess it's just another symptom of todays society.
This will justify them installing more speed cameras.
When they don't grit next year and the accidents go down.
The statistics will show how cleaver they were to install the cameras.
They will give themselves a big bonus and everybody thinks of them in a nice fluffy way.
Me? I want to harm them... I thought I'd left this nonsense behind when I moved darn sarf from the land of the 'chippings on road'. Guess it's just another symptom of todays society.
shorty123 said:
Can anyone explain why Bristol shitty council think it's a good idea to grit the roads running through the Downs in the hottest weather we've had all year?
I was wondering this on Saturday, they were doing the airport road also, bloody ridiculous hold ups ensued and the car was none too happy either (but held on)
I believe i had a similar conversation with the missus at the time... except twas a little more colourful
Knobbers very nearly caused me to miss my flight. Not happy.
I had a very official house of commons letter yesterday, jury service i thought, or maybe i havent paid something... but no it was a letter from our friendly local moustachioed lesbian MP - Dawn Primarolo... Do you know what this very official letter was about??
It was an appeal for africa... I ask you!! i dont mind the thought of wiping out third world debt, but i bloody well object when its my local MP asking for money, when i pay one of the highest rates of council tax in the UK for piss poor local services, and crap 'we cant be bothered' policing.... AAARRRRGGGHHHH it makes me so mad.
And that parking services lot can go to hell also
sorry guys, had to get that off my chest
It was an appeal for africa... I ask you!! i dont mind the thought of wiping out third world debt, but i bloody well object when its my local MP asking for money, when i pay one of the highest rates of council tax in the UK for piss poor local services, and crap 'we cant be bothered' policing.... AAARRRRGGGHHHH it makes me so mad.
And that parking services lot can go to hell also
sorry guys, had to get that off my chest
On the subject of the road (i imagine it is anyway), I live just off it, and drove down it yesterday ping chip tinkle tinkle and noticed the Espace that is always parked on the road slowly smoldering!!!
Pulled over and took a look, and the wheelarch was melting at a fairly rapid rate!!! Found the owner (a lady) who said she had noticed the air con made a racket when she stopped.
So doing my good deed, I told her to go and get a fire extinguisher, while I had a closer look.
I noticed that the inside of the wheelarch was indeed smoldering (and red hot from it), so I got a wire brush out of my toolbox and cleaned off all the smodering material and any other 'potential' flammable material, and it stopped.
Told the lady not to drive it until she had got the AA out to have a look (not that mechanical really, me).
She seemed very grateful and I went on my merry way feeling better that I had helped somebody not lose their car up in flames
gives self a pat on back
Pulled over and took a look, and the wheelarch was melting at a fairly rapid rate!!! Found the owner (a lady) who said she had noticed the air con made a racket when she stopped.
So doing my good deed, I told her to go and get a fire extinguisher, while I had a closer look.
I noticed that the inside of the wheelarch was indeed smoldering (and red hot from it), so I got a wire brush out of my toolbox and cleaned off all the smodering material and any other 'potential' flammable material, and it stopped.
Told the lady not to drive it until she had got the AA out to have a look (not that mechanical really, me).
She seemed very grateful and I went on my merry way feeling better that I had helped somebody not lose their car up in flames
gives self a pat on back
Went for a blast on my bike last night and discovered that loose gravel has been "applied" to the surface half way up Cheddar Gorge. I discovered this while making keen progress and nearly lost the front end of the bike. Surely the council should be at least obligedt o put warning signs up?!!
Mon Ami Mate said:Yeh, went up their last weekend in the Tiger. Rear arches took a spraying
Went for a blast on my bike last night and discovered that loose gravel has been "applied" to the surface half way up Cheddar Gorge. I discovered this while making keen progress and nearly lost the front end of the bike. Surely the council should be at least obligedt o put warning signs up?!!
On the Downs however there is proper, red coloured salt/grit! The stuff they put down in winter to stop the roads icing over.
PS Mon Ami - Wasn't you on the bike I was, err, driving spiritedly with last Sunday ~11:30am?
KITT said:
Went for a blast on my bike last night and discovered that loose gravel has been "applied" to the surface half way up Cheddar Gorge. I discovered this while making keen progress and nearly lost the front end of the bike. Surely the council should be at least obligedt o put warning signs up?!!
Yeh, went up their last weekend in the Tiger. Rear arches took a spraying
On the Downs however there is proper, red coloured salt/grit! The stuff they put down in winter to stop the roads icing over.
PS Mon Ami - Wasn't you on the bike I was, err, driving spiritedly with last Sunday ~11:30am?
Wasn't me Guv - I'd have recognised you. I was in your neck of the woods though, but two up. Went to WSM with my girlfriend and stopped off in Axbridge on the way back for a
(just the one you understand). KITT said:
Mon Ami Mate said:
Went for a blast on my bike last night and discovered that loose gravel has been "applied" to the surface half way up Cheddar Gorge. I discovered this while making keen progress and nearly lost the front end of the bike. Surely the council should be at least obligedt o put warning signs up?!!
Yeh, went up their last weekend in the Tiger. Rear arches took a spraying
On the Downs however there is proper, red coloured salt/grit! The stuff they put down in winter to stop the roads icing over.
PS Mon Ami - Wasn't you on the bike I was, err, driving spiritedly with last Sunday ~11:30am?
Where abouts is this, may I ask? I was on about Ivywell Road which has just been resurfaced pah!
See Here
>> Edited by neil_cardiff on Thursday 23 June 14:52
neil_cardiff said:All along Ladies Mile, Stoke Road and Saville road (you can tell which way I drive to work
Where abouts is this, may I ask? I was on about Ivywell Road which has just been resurfaced pah!
See Here
). Go take a look now, there's quite a load of it just by the zoo at the start of Ladies Mile.
I drive that way most days and haven't seen any... Plenty of overspill from the Ivywell Rd "surface dressing" plus on Westbury road they've just put "extra grippy" patches on the approaches to the pelican crossing (you know - the sort that actually makes it harder to stop due to all the loose gravel that's left over for weeks afterwards 
)KITT said:
I'm pretty sure it's grit although you've got me thinking now
Could be where they use the Down's as overflow parking for the zoo in the summer. The earth around here is all red, so could simply be dirt dragged onto the road as the cars come off the Downs?
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