Wednesday, February 11, 2009

LibDems to Cut Snow Clearing

I was amazed at one entry in the budget report that was released recently. £20,000 is to be cut from Winter Highways Maintenance with the explanation, “Based on the experience of the last few years, reduce the provision for highways winter maintenance without having any adverse impact on the service provided.”

This decision was confirmed by leading LibDem councillors on Friday morning whilst sitting about 10 feet away from the entrance of the Civic Offices with people slipping and sliding into the building. As we recover from the worst snow in 18 years, it is incredulous that they can prove themselves so out of touch that they can draw up proposals to reduce the upkeep of our roads during winter.

Meanwhile a constituent has sent me this photo of litter picking in Blakehall Road whilst a lady tiptoes through the snow and a Mini crawls over the ice.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What I'm seeing all over London in the aftermath of the snow is that a terrible amount of damage has been done to road surfaces - they are literally crumbling before your eyes. I don't know whether it's the ice/snow itself, the gritting, the snow ploughing or something else.

Park Hill & Beeches Avenue in Carshalton are especially bad. Is there a plan afoot to deal with this?

Anonymous said...

......off topic - but is it, by chance, some IT whizz kid from Sutton that, on behalf of the Tories, has altered Titian's date of birth on Wikipedia today?

I suspect it could be.