Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Hewitt Road dangerously icy for cars
Hewitt Road this morning is dangerously icy for anything other than a 4WD car.
We've had at least 3 cars slide into parked cars, causing a fair bit of damage, and one motorbike fall. Luckily there's an old diversion sign at the top of the road that I've put out to discourage muppets from using the road.
If you are out and about, please don't try to use the road until the gritters have been round.
Malcolm
We've had at least 3 cars slide into parked cars, causing a fair bit of damage, and one motorbike fall. Luckily there's an old diversion sign at the top of the road that I've put out to discourage muppets from using the road.
If you are out and about, please don't try to use the road until the gritters have been round.
Malcolm
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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I have just spoken to the Waste Mangement Team who are responsible for gritting. They explained that that the council, as with all london boroughs, are on emergency levels of grit. I think it will be highly unlikely if the any of our roads are gritted in the near future. My teeth however.....
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Permalink Reply by Malcolm on
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Great, thanks for contacting the council.
Has anybody been in touch with the police/council to see if there's any way to get the roads closed until the ice is past?
I've been out and sprinkled some dishwasher salt on the road near my car (entirely selfishly, I don't want muppets driving into it), but alas I have nowhere near enough to make a real difference.
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Update. The waste management team have got back to me. Due to lack of grit there will be no gritting on priority 2 or 3 roads for the forseable future. They will only be concentrating on Priority 1 roads.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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So they learned nothing from last year ? You would think they would have realised that it often snows and freezes in winter. This weather is normal - the last few winters have been abnormally mild.
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Define normal - this is apparently the longest cold snap for the last 20+ years (I've heard variously 1982 and 1984).
If the council had maintained enough salt grit to cope with this year's cold spell for every one of those years I suspect there would have been people criticising them for wasting money.
I find it useful to think of tolerable levels of downtime - is it acceptable to have one week of problems once every 20 years? Once a decade? Once a year?
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