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"No money left for clearing city roads"
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Posted 14 years ago #
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how about we grind up the trams into little bits of "grit" and spread them on the roads?
Posted 14 years ago # -
I think road traffic is already generating grit by pummelling Princes St's tarmac.
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.
Mind you, a friend of mine managed to get her Series 1 Landie stuck while out rescuing stranded cars.
Posted 14 years ago # -
if a landie gets stuck you know it's a bad winter...
Posted 14 years ago # -
No getting Landrovers stuck is actually quiet easy... They are not the magical objects some people think they are.
Posted 14 years ago # -
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....
Posted 14 years ago # -
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."
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...
Posted 14 years ago # -
if a landie gets stuck you know it's a bad winter...
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,
have a guess which one am I
townie or culchie (google it)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
, good driving is not about going the fastest but getting there fast when the occasion requires ;-)as we all know in the city that's generally the cycle
Posted 14 years ago # -
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:
4X4 stuck in the River North Esk in Musselburgh
Posted 14 years ago # -
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 here while I shouted 'change gears','slower, slower'...)
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