icy pavements in Aberdeen

Tibbs,The_Freebie_Hunter

This is just one of the cutbacks due to the fiasco with the Council wanting plush new offices in Marischal College. Council office blocks are standard buildings in other cities, so why not here?

Please make sure you complain. My partner slipped this morning, and I slipped tonight.

We have been 'skating' in our carpark. After a hard day's work on Christmas Eve, I had to grit our ice-rink carpark, stairs and pavement for two hours (with a tiny kitchen brush pan set to disperse the grit - couldn't get access to my outdoor cupboard for the shovel, as lock was frozen).

Where does our money go??? We pay more and more every year (far above allowing for inflation), but seem to get less and less in return.

Not to disappoint you, but it looks like we might be set for more cutbacks (and snow) going forward into 2010. Aberdeen is a lovely city, but the administration of the city leaves a lot to be desired. I am an Aberdonian, but I've never seen it being run to the ground as has been lately.

mrs_T

Tibbs, please remember at the next local council election it's not the council staff who make decisions about plush new offices, gritting budgets and cutbacks but your elected representatives ie. councillors, and they should be held to account. We were told the new building wouldn't be big enough but continuing redundancies may resolve that. Of course they continue to blame central government for not giving them enough money.

Bonar, I would find out from the council website who your local councilors are and complain through them, this is likely to be more productive.

amandada

Dundee's just as bad-I know of at least 1 night in the past week where the taxis have gone off during the night, down to the state of the roads here

coco1980

i am in glasgow and i couldnt get from my front door to the car yesterday, one of my neighbours has gritted pavement today thanfully

suzybloo

We are not too bad here but there was uproar in Perth, the roads hadn,t been cleared parked cars were standed and the lovely council sent out the car parking attendents (or traffic wardens as they used to be known) and booked as many cars - method in their madness!!!!

bathgatebuyer

Edinburgh was just as bad for a while. I work in the City Centre down the bottom of a steep hill and fell more than once on the way down to work. Last year I had a spell in hospital after a fall and although I was bad, it was heartbreaking to see some of the older people who were in there with broken bones and the like. Their recovery inevitably being much longer than mine.

The daft thing is, for all the slipping and sliding to get into work, once I actually got in there was little to do as everyone I needed to speak to was off!

GrumpyButGorgeous

Thanks OP, didnt know about the council reporting form on the web, have reported a couple of streets i have major concerns about due to their locality next to nursery, school and old folks. Hope you're daughter is ok, have heard of a few injuries in the area

pilot2

My mum slipped 2 years ago in Gray St in Aberdeen, sustaining a broken wrist and fingers. This was caused by the trees uprooting the paving slabs. Prior to this many people have also fallen in the same area. With one elderly lady actually dying from her injuries. Mum is still awaiting compensation and the paving slabs remain in their dangerous state. I tackled the local councillors but they are more interested in retaining a tree lined street which seems to attract quite an array of vocal English incommers who are not interested in the safety of people on foot only the rising value of their property. So I was most intrigued to see that the Abdn Council had posted a slips/trips and falls contact no on their website - Pre Xmas. The continued non gritting of the roads and pavements is outrageous. Mums area has still not been touched despite myself and my sister nearly breaking our necks trying to bring in food to her this week. To add insult to injury the council are sanctioning themselves blackberrys and in the same breadth closing public libraries. The mob in Aberdeen need to be kicked out. They are a self serving oragnisation with no true values.

devils_vixen

It's just as bad in the Lothians - been snowing heavily since 9pm - not one gritter has been on the main road. About 3inches has fell and it's to go to -7. In the 2 weeks it has been snowing, the pavements have been gritted twice. Had to laugh at the wee man the other day - what is the point in gritting the pavement without first clearing the snow off it?

I think and have thought this for a long time, that every household should be supplied with their own grit box and 2 bags of grit each winter so residents can clear their path and the footpath surrounding their property - they already supply us with 4 different bins -what's one more? Sometimes I wonder why I pay council tax with the [STRIKE]amount[/STRIKE] lack of services that are provided!!

Hush-Puppy

bathgatebuyer wrote: »

Edinburgh was just as bad for a while.

Edinburgh has been awful for the past few weeks! They've not even been gritting certain main roads, steep hills have been ignored and so have all pavements.

I called CLARENCE over a week ago to tell them that our street grit bin was almost empty and that I was concerned for our elderly neighbours. I was assured someone would be out 'soon' to fill it. We're still waiting.

They also left our wheelie bins for 2 weeks, with no-one knowing when they were to be emptied. So, not only were you slipping all over the place, you had wheelie bins to dodge around all over the pavements!