On 17 Dec 2010 at 5:29pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:
Has anyone any idea how ESCC decides which roads to grit?
At 1pm today, Broad Street on Seaford, which is virtually level and where you're lucky if you can do more than 10 mph, had been gritted and they'd even done the pavements. It looked like the first bit of the A259 heading east from Seaford had been done too, but there was no sign of gritting on the Seaford-Newhaven stretch of the coast road, or on the A26 up to Beddingham.
Highdown Road was gritted earlier in the week, but Mount Harry Road, which is far steeper, wasn't. Both are part of the bus route.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which roads get gritted.
On 17 Dec 2010 at 5:47pm I don't live in lewes... wrote:
ACT.
Broad Street had been gritted at 1pm because I live in Seaford and told them I wanted to go shopping at 2pm.
Are you in someway telling me Lewes doesn't give that service?
PhilX.
ps Broad Street's not level... be it virtual or real time.
On 17 Dec 2010 at 10:00pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:
Could you post the number to ring, Phil? I'll get them to grit the route to my house of an afternoon, I only just got up the hill to get home tonight. 
On 17 Dec 2010 at 10:02pm Slippery Sid wrote:
Try h**p://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/roads/maintenance/saltingandgritting/default.htm
On 18 Dec 2010 at 12:03am pedant wrote:
The A26 between Newhaven and Beddingham is a trunk road and, therefore, gritting is the responsibility of the Highways Agency, not ESCC
On 18 Dec 2010 at 9:15am i dont live in lewes... wrote:
More a secret handshake than a phone number ACT.
I would show you the secret but it would have to behind closed doors with the curtains drawn and people would likely gossip.
Being a decent bloke if I still lived in Lewes I would clear and grit the road to your house for you.
PhilX
On 18 Dec 2010 at 11:51am Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:
Lol - the whole length of Mount Harry Road? That would indeed be a heroic effort!
In London, they used to have grit bins on hilly roads and people used to do it themselves. I'm sure people up here would too, if the council provided the grit.
On 18 Dec 2010 at 2:00pm i dont live in lewes... wrote:
Dear ACT... would you consider moving to a shorter road ASAP. Agree about grit bins, I'm sure people would use them if they were available. I live top end of Firle Road area which like Mount Harry Rd is hilly and as you would expect has no grit bins.
Regarding Minxy's post... unless someones bought it privately it's hard to see the logic of locking a grit bin.
PhilX
On 18 Dec 2010 at 2:15pm Minxy wrote:
Not sure if it was bought privately (£275 if you want to have one in your road!) - will make a few enquiries on Monday.
On 18 Dec 2010 at 3:45pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:
I can see it would be difficult to find enough people to grit every road in the district, but if they got the stuff dumped on street corners in one-ton bags, I'm sure that in a lot of residential areas people would be only too happy to do a section of their own road. Each house here only has about 25-30 feet frontage, so with a house on each side of the road that would only be 15' that each household would have to do.
On 18 Dec 2010 at 4:27pm Slippery Sid wrote:
You might have to pay more for such grit than you think ....
h**p://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8743700.Sussex_salt_thieves_raiding_council_supplies/
On 18 Dec 2010 at 4:41pm Minxy wrote:
Why don't people just buy bags of it if they need it, ather than steal it? Sussex Skips are selling 25kg bags for £5 something. Thats a huge amount for that price.
On 18 Dec 2010 at 8:37pm Gm taxis wrote:
@Minxy,Thats what we have done this year to help get our cars out as we got a real slagging off last year for being toooo careful , but on another note , well done to our local NW team for clearing Newton road hill today, If we all helped it would make life much less stressfull , well done dave and david 