Our High Street - Dec 09

[tamborine]

do you think this is total neglect of our council?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hzFjog39eE

[joggerjayne]

What ... building the High Street vertically ?

[another-view]

I can't see the video but if once again you are moaning about paths not being cleared, I suggest you get off your backside and clear it yourself, like other people do.

[tamborine]

spare me JJ - I dont know how to turn the video......you r a meanie to pick up on that.

[ummmm]

She's talking about the high street For Funks Sake...Do you think she should clear the whole of the high street? You're being a Snag.

[redcrx]

if funds will only allow certain roads to be cleared then do the main commuter roads first.

perhaps the stores on the high street could clear in front of their own shop if worried about trade

[tamborine]

its not my pathway - its our high street.

[another-view]

No her personally but the people who owns the property should clear the path in front of their houses/shops.

Is it just Yorkshire where people do this, as I've never heard anything like this.

[jackthehat]

Another-view;
Anyone taking it upon themselves to shovel snow from a 'public' area will be taken to one side by one of any number of uniformed, or hi-vis jacketed, council operatives and requested to desist.

If, however, you are referring to purely 'private' areas, there may be some validity to your argument. However, if there is a chance that the public/private areas overlap, fear of litigation would stop most folks..........and rightly so !

[ummmm]

AV...see Crafts answers. If someone slips after you have cleared the pathway then you are liable.

[redcrx]

a friend of mine lives on an estate of 60 houses. Every day for the last week her husband has gritted the hill at the edge of the estate so as he can safely get to work. No-one else has bothered even though there is a council grit bin at side of road for that purpose.

After leaving it as long as he could one day, he started gritting it only for one resident to moan at him that it shouldve been done earlier when everyone needed to get to work!

Some people just arent prepared to help themselves.

[another-view]

Then the UK has once again gone mad. No wonder we are the laughing stock of the world. Here we clear the bit in front of our houses. Shop owners do the same. Can't say, I've ever seen any accidents or people skidding.

[craft1948]

another-view (Mon 11:25 21/Dec/09) Report This
No her personally but the people who owns the property should clear the path in front of their houses/shops.

Is it just Yorkshire where people do this, as I've never heard anything like this
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lol....I'm in Yorkshire.....

[another-view]

I am ashamed to be a Yorkshireman in that case.

[NoMercy]

In other countries, a-view, they don't get sued if they do the job themselves and then somebody slips. Have you had a CT Scan lately?

[ummmm]

I've slipped loads of times on cleared and uncleared paths.

That doesn't mean much though. I have a tendency to fall over no matter what the weather conditions..

[~Wingnut~]

Flipping 'eck Redcrx!! He should have said he will start charging them if they are relying on him so much! Bloody cheek of it! Ungrateful gits!

[craft1948]

Come on round with your shovel then another-view..........I'm a 61 year old widow with severe arthritis......the lady next door is 80 and my other neighbour is 82.............are we supposed to get a sodding snow shovel out and clear the paths.......dream on...................

[redcrx]

i know, wingnut, its not as if he lives next to the slope. hes right at back of the estate.

[dothawkes31]

I know I moan about my next door but one neighbour and his flag pole and his gawdy pver the top Christmas Decs, but I have to say, without his unselfishness and community drive, alot of my neioghbours would have not goit to work or the shops today, he was up at 6am clearing the early morning snow then came out again after 8am and gritted the lane and the very dangerous bend on a hill we have as you leave the lane, he's helped a few clear their cars. i've just taken another neighbour to asdas with me as she would usually walk, she says she's 74 but I never knew she was that age. Anyway, the council haven't even gritted the road we drive out onto and so that has a foot of slush along each edge is is barely two way traffic. We haven't seen any gritted roads except in asdas car park, so that bit of our council tax musty still be in the kitty.