OT : Arse. It's slippy on the A5 through MK

Indeed. I've seen many a rally car come to grief on a patch of ice after
going very well over a very snowy section.
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Diana memorial causes cancer.

 

sweller posted:

I'm not getting into this discussion, as I don't know enough about the
subject. Suffice to say I don't believe that everything can be done
for profit; some things have to be done because they have to be done,
and whatever the cost is it should be paid by whoever benefits.

 

frag posted:

From some random searching, it seems that Cumbria County Council looks
after about 4700 miles of road. This won't include the M6 (~60 miles),
or the Cumbrian stretch (~20 miles) of the A69 which is privately
contracted. Buckinghamshire County Council looks after about 2000
miles of road, I have no figures for the non-council maintained roads.
Cumbria's population is just under 500,000 - Buckinghamshire's is
about 730,000 (and almost certainly considerably more affluent on
average).

 

So why make the ill-informed statement in the first instance?

blah, ukrm, blah, blah, ill-informed, blah, blah, no fucking excuse.

 

[...]

Usenet motto: learn what you know, share what you don't.

 

Quite fucking right.

 

Last week, somebody linked to a farmers' forum where they recalled being
given grit for the taking by the councils, some 20ish years back, and
more recently. As a result many local roads were kept clear (out of
self-interest) by the farmers to everyone's benefit.

 

Ford, is it?

 

Heh, that's interesting.

What's the tyre dimension of your Jag? Possibly designed before the "fat
tyre" fashion took over . . . .

 

255 tyres usually come with plenty of HP, which not necessarily makes it
easier to administer _just_ the effect necessary to get the vehicle
rolling, slowly.

No doubt that skills on two wheels makes you more likely to cope with
snow and ice, even in a powerful car.

Most often the problem, on snow and ice, is to grind to a halt in time
before you hit the vehicle in front. Even if I have no problem with
exceeding the local speed limits on today's roads, I plan my braking
_very_ well in advance. Preferably with the use of the packed snow/
rough ice _besides_ the track used by most drivers - but such habits are
probably default choices of everyone here.

 

took a blunt brush and painted...

Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it Bruce!

 

took a blunt brush and painted...

Well that's bollocks, as a few have pointed out to me.

 

Very much so - 185-15

 

Next Q (I can't be arsed googling), how many people per mile ?

 

YTC#1 posted:

No need to google. From the above (admittedly flawed) figures, Cumbria
has about 106 people per mile of road, Bucks 365. Of course that
doesn't take into account those who are going in/out from/to other
counties. However, AFAIK councils do not use mere population figures
to determine gritting priorities.

 

No, but I think frag can now go and research into where his council tax
goes

 

took a blunt brush and painted...

Almost exactly what happened to me.

I'm having big problems trying to get any fuckers on EBay to get off their
arses and post me the bits I need.

I'm just going to have to drive the BM without the FLHS indicator & headlamp
until they come. Might rig up something as an indicator and duck tape it in
place for now.

Amen brother.

 

took a blunt brush and painted...

Not into satisfying my every whim.

That's all I need to know