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The Council have no grit left !!

  • 04-12-2010 10:28pm
    #1
    rx8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭


    Just in from work, and I have to say the roads are in an absolutely shocking state.The bus was sliding all over the road and even spinning the wheels in a straight line.I didn't see one treated road between glasnevin and citywest!

    There were about 25 - 30 drivers in the garage yard as I left in my car, and they had decided not to go back out again. I don't really blame them, as I don't think I'd have gone back out either.

    Anyway I phoned Pearse St. guards on the way home, and asked them if they have any influence with the council in maybe getting some gritters out and I was told that they don't have any more grit left...!:eek:

    How can they be out of grit and salt after 1 week ?
    More like they are not paying the overtime...:rolleyes:

    Busy night for the taxi's tonight.


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  • #2
    amacachi
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    Castletown road in Dundalk in a 10 year old Almera with a useless clutch and it was spinning in second gear at 10 mph. Road looks clear, only the odd twinkle here and there, down to luck as to whether someone notices it or not.


  • #3
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    More like they are not paying the overtime...

    Bingo rx8 !!

    Making Onlettes depends upon breaking a few eggs.....financial omlettes are no different...if it`s to be done..it`ll cost.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
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    IIRC we have about 60,000 tonnes of grit

    in the UK they have over a million tonnes, with more on the way

    (biggest salt mine here or in the UK is in Northern Ireland )


  • #5
    Maldini2706
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭Maldini2706


    Why didn't you ring the council?


  • #6
    jaceq
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    Just a thought, why in temperatures like this (around 0 or -2) they won't spray streets with sea water?
    Sea water won't freez at such temepratures (due to salt content) and should dissolve ice and snow on roads... and there is no shortage of this... (I am aware that due to low salt content if would freez at lower temperatures but can it get any worse??)


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  • #7
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    jaceq wrote: »
    Just a thought, why in temperatures like this (around 0 or -2) they won't spray streets with sea water?
    Sea water won't freez at such temepratures (due to salt content) and should dissolve ice and snow on roads... and there is no shortage of this... (I am aware that due to low salt content if would freez at lower temperatures but can it get any worse??)
    sea water is only 3.5% salt so you would need 30 times as many gritters, and they would have to be tankers not common or garden trucks, and they couldn't be normal steel tankers, not sure if even food grade stainless steel would do.

    Also sea water freezes at only -2 and that's before it's diluted with slush and ice. for many roads you would convert bad frost into an ice rink


  • #8
    aliveandkicking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭aliveandkicking


    jaceq wrote: »
    Just a thought, why in temperatures like this (around 0 or -2) they won't spray streets with sea water?
    Sea water won't freez at such temepratures (due to salt content) and should dissolve ice and snow on roads... and there is no shortage of this... (I am aware that due to low salt content if would freez at lower temperatures but can it get any worse??)

    The air temperature might well be -2 but the ground temperature is a few degrees below that. One of the nights during the week there was a ground temperature reading of -14 taken in Dublin. When we see the weather forecasts talking about temperatures dropping to -4 or something they are talking about the temperature of the air. The ground temperature is often well below this so seawater would not be useful.


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