Careful if cycling on George Street - it's treacherous.
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George Street - Very Slippery
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Posted 10 years ago #
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I think most coucnils appear to have been caught out? Fife roads were icing up lastnight at middnight and not gritted or salted this morning when I left for work.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@DaveC
Caught out or calculated risk (i.e.winging it) in trying to preserve limited stocks?
Saying that, an operating gritter went past me as I was riding through Inverkeithing about 5.30 last night.
Posted 10 years ago # -
George Street "general traffic" lanes were gritted, the cycle lane was not... They weren't so much as caught out as just weren't bothering to do that bit.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Spoke to my mate at Fife council lastnight, and he reconded they would be better gritting the paths first, then the roads, but apparently hospitals are dead against that idea. Even hospitals appear to want to force pedestrians into their cars! over public transport.
He won't be quoted on that though.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Didn't have key to bollards...
Posted 10 years ago # -
I'm not sure the councils were caught out. It was pretty clear yesterday afternoon that there was likely to be a hard freeze overnight - clear enough that I cleared and salted our front path yesterday evening.
Leamington Walk was ungritted this morning. I saw one of the (very few) cyclists come off - luckily their ego was bruised more than anything else. I was on foot, in anticipation of evening drinks.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@Morningsider
Nip in by the Antiquary if you're down that way. I'm owe you beer.
Posted 10 years ago # -
As per the Severe Weather thread... Council winter road and pavement maintenance map - it still has George St in red both ways, so perhaps someone with tweeting powers could point this out to the council and get a little man out with a shovel?
Posted 10 years ago # -
I prefer woman with shovel -
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Oh yes the gender stereo typing why has to be a man?, although rarely hear the OECD considering to mandate the percentage of road diggers that should be of a specific gender. Typically seems the better jobs that that become “diversity issues.
“get a little man out with a shovel?”
The council road worker currently for better or worse are much more likely to be a man, but the real cause for concern in this sentence "little man". -)
There is no reason to assume that a council man with a shovel would be little in height, as oppose to large or average height. Can only assume a reference to little in status, "little people", as council man with a shovel would typically be of lower than average social economic etc.
The only metric that could assume would typically be little in relation to the population as a whole that could be applied to council man with shovel.
“Little” has a bourgeoisie inference, "little people", tend to think would be politer to refer to the council workers as a pleb from the council.
-)After much deliberation “little man” may have little gender implications in this context, as the phrase” little man” does not seem exclusively gender specific.
Although may be an assumption that a man, it may still be correct to use this term in relation to a woman ?
"A person who conducts business or life on a small or ordinary scale; an average person."
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/little-man
Posted 10 years ago # -
OK to balance things out - why can't we get a big lady out from the council with a MINI TRACTOR.
Anyone know the current furryboots of the FLEET OF MINI TRACTORS.
Posted 10 years ago # -
On my most memorable sighting of a council mini-tractor, it was being driven by a bored teenage boy. Definitely male. He'd got carried away - the thing was meant to be clearing snow off the pavements, but the driver seemed so bored that he'd simply floored the throttle to get the ordeal over with as quickly as possible. The result was that the mini-tractor was going so fast that it was bouncing over the accumulated snow, leaping and jumping crazily along the pavement at top speed - pedestrians were screaming and diving into the road to escape being flattened ...
Posted 10 years ago # -
We walked along the roads last night on the way to/from the school concert. They had been treated; the pavements hadn't. Musselburgh has only had 2,000 years of pedestrianisation to get it right. TIM.
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