http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "No money left for clearing city roads" en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:11:49 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1781 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:18:07 +0000 SRD 1781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>hee hee. True enough about the 'bad driver' or at least drivers not used to driving on soft roads - it's a whole different skill set (will spare you most of an anecdote about car I was a passenger in getting stuck in v. bad storm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nyangani">here</a> while I shouted 'change gears','slower, slower'...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1779 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:41:49 +0000 Cyclingmollie 1779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SRD and nearefare you don't have to got Lake Kariba (!) or rural Ireland to see stuck vehicles. This one was at the bottom of our street:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCwSq0wgjo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCwSq0wgjo</a></p> <p>4X4 stuck in the River North Esk in Musselburgh </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1773 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:22:06 +0000 nearefare 1773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>if a landie gets stuck you know it's a bad winter... </blockquote></p> <p>eer no just a bad driver, I've gotten through floods, snow, ice, mud up hills etc in crappy front wheel drive cars where landies and chelsea tractors are stuck, </p> <p>have a guess which one am I<br /> townie or culchie (google it)</p> <p>tractors at 8 , first car at 11 and bus at 14, rural ireland 30 years ago vehicles were just a crap as the roads LOL<br /> , good driving is not about going the fastest but getting there fast when the occasion requires ;-) </p> <p>as we all know in the city that's generally the cycle </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1770 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:47:37 +0000 PS 1770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If we count thick snow lying for a long period of time on account of sustained sub zero temperature as being bad (it only really is if you want to drive around the place - otherwise, try enjoying the novelty), then it certainly has been "a very, very bad winter." </p> <p>Snow chains are surely the way forward in these conditions, but for the sake of the usual two or three days a year, who's going to bother? Of course, that won't stop them whinging that the council hasn't cleared and gritted every single road in the city... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1762 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:37:29 +0000 SRD 1762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was thinking s'thing like that. the old ones were good though, because they were light enough that you could relatively easily unstick them, with some basic equipment/strength. then again, the driver side door on our old one always came loose if you went too fast. I have a pic somewhere of the sunset after we got a pickup stuck on the edge of lake kariba would've been fine with a landrover, but couldn't push the pickup out.... and there were lions.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1760 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:30:57 +0000 Kim 1760@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No getting Landrovers stuck is actually quiet easy... They are not the magical objects some people think they are. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1754 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:46:32 +0000 spytfyre 1754@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>if a landie gets stuck you <em>know</em> it's a bad winter... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1753 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:43:18 +0000 Arellcat 1753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think road traffic is already generating grit by pummelling Princes St's tarmac.</p> <p>According to Neil Greig, "...it was a very, very bad winter." Compared with what? Last year? It didn't seem worse than any other winter I remember, and how do other countries manage when it snows? I guess they put winter tyres on their vehicles and learn how to drive in the snow.</p> <p>Mind you, a friend of mine managed to get her Series 1 Landie stuck while out rescuing stranded cars. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1734 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:18:47 +0000 spytfyre 1734@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>how about we grind up the trams into little bits of "grit" and spread them on the roads? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=230#post-1724 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:28:07 +0000 chdot 1724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/No-money-left-for-clearing.5996693.jp" rel="nofollow">http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/No-money-left-for-clearing.5996693.jp</a> </p>