Just a quick heads up that some of the pavements around Pittodrie are still very icey.
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Just a quick heads up that some of the pavements around Pittodrie are still very icey.
Don’t worry got my permagrips 19.99 from timpsons
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Council for whatever reason are refusing to grit the pavements so the Police are going round in a van and gritting them.
saw a female have a horrible fall when she and her friend went to walk on the pavement going down st.clair street after the game on wednesday, it was like a flippin ice rink
What's going on up there ?
The city centre was the same.
**** me
There was a downhill section enroute back to city centre that was so treacherous most walked on the road. I opted to slide, so some fun was to be had on an otherwise forgettable afternoon.
Think I seen someone on Twitter complaining about slipping and breaking her arm after the game the other day.
Was ridiculous. Trying to get from Easter road to lochend and every one was sliding all over the place, seen 3 people slipping and my feet almost went from under me but managed to grab onto the fence. Car was sliding on the black ice. Council should've had all the areas around the ground gritted.
Still, at least we have 20mph rolled out.....😂😂
It’s really unfortunate if anyone falls.
However, if they strived a bit more, they could buy their own salt that they could use.
Some amazing facts and figures in their accounts. When you look at spending on roads which I presume covers pavements it isn't surprising that they have abandoned gritting on all but major routes. If you don't get a broken leg getting to and from the tram you will be fine. Whilst austerity has played a part the Tram project must be one of the big reasons for lack of investment elsewhere. To be fair the trams are making a profit earlier than expected. It will take around 3000 years at £250K profit per year to pay back that investment though not counting taxes and interest. Now that is what you call a vanity project!
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download...klet_2016-2017
Oh I love the smell of patronising in the morning... Yes, I'm well aware of austerity, friend, although you may have voted for it in Bristol, we didn't up here.
Were you in Aberdeen yesterday? It's not that a few roads and pavements weren't gritted - nothing whatsoever had been gritted. People couldn't walk. I saw one guy being rescued from a pavement by a policeman, and I presume all elderly people were hiding indoors.
And I'm well aware of different levels of austerity measures, and the cuts in local authorities' budgets - some of it is relevant to my job. But I am talking about the scale of the issue - in a place like Aberdeen, to have done nothing whatsoever across the whole city, was astonishing.
Pavements were that bad on Wednesday, we walked up the road all the way to Lochend roundabout.
When you have a British Nationalist coalition in charge at the council it's all you can expect.
Im sure I wasn't the only one to take the opportunity, but maybe one of the few my age.. If it was a 47 year old sporting a Parka and cap it would have been me.
My wife was in Aberdeen city centre with the kids and she was lamenting the poor state of the pavements even round about there on one of the busiest weekends of the year.