Crossing the county line

Wig

Tonight I crossed the county line from Vale of Glamorgan into Rhondda Cynon Taff. And the border line was noticeable because I was driving on fairly ice/snow/slush free 'A' road and knew I needed to keep my speed up for the up coming hill (as I came down it a few hours earlier.) so I kept my speed up and hit the hill head on taking it effortlessly in my stride. But the hill was covered in soft dry brown snow not slush and not thick on the ground about an inch or so. The difference was very noticeable from the well gritted road I had just been on and I wondered to myself

If they gritted the road 'back there' why the Fv#k didn't they do the hill?

And then it dawned on me, I had just crossed the county line into RCT, no doubt the sign says "Welcome to RCT" which is quite ironic.

From then on until home all the roads were not particularly well gritted. And now I come to think about it, it was the same last year at the same point on the road.

To be entirely fair, RCT did get 12 inches of snow and VoG only got about 5 inches and the RCT have the A470 dual carriageway and the M4 section to deal with, whereas VoG don't have any motorways or dual carriageways. But it seems to be the same every year.

Stigy

I've found that where I live. I find that in the county I live in the roads are fairly well gritted and plowed, yet 2-minutes up the road in a neighbouring county, the roads are terrible! I think different local authorities have a different criteria as to what priority roads are.

Gene_Hunt_2

Crossing the county line

I thought this was about the Dukes of Hazzard.

mark5

You also went from one of the richest areas of Wales into one of the poorest!

(Possibly a bigger budget per mile of road or something?)

forgotmyname

Same here in the midlands on sat morning, Looks like nothing had been gritted, A38/A452 (M6 J5 area) and the actual M6 were
terrible. As i left the M6 onto the M42 it was totally clear.

I presume that's the difference between Birmingham and Solihull councils.

Flying-High_2

Similar.... Flintshire... ALL main roads are clear and gritted... maybe not straighaway mind... One B road I travel 6 nights at 1am was salted in the 60mph zone up until the 30mph then it was snow/Ice zone of my village.... but was done later that night. Traverlling from Flinsthire into Denbighshire this afternooon... Borders at Bodfari for anyone thats familiar.... And there was Ice on the road... And Lots of Snow/Slush/Ice on the road at the fork Denbigh/Trefnant

rak2

Yeah my brother had an accident in the snow one year because of that. He drove out of Durham City limits into Durham County and the county hadn't gritted. Ended up in a field.

tripled

I was following a gritter early doors this morning along the Herefordshire/Powys border, every time he crossed into Wales he would stop gritting and then when he crossed back he'd start again. I've always known they do that, but the first time I've actually been behind one for that stretch. You'd think the two councils would do a deal to share the border roads out.

Flying-High_2

tripled wrote: »

I was following a gritter early doors this morning along the Herefordshire/Powys border, every time he crossed into Wales he would stop gritting and then when he crossed back he'd start again. I've always known they do that, but the first time I've actually been behind one for that stretch. You'd think the two councils would do a deal to share the border roads out.

I used to work for a LA and ours would switch of at the sign.... Travel upto the Flyover... back down and switch on at the sign " Welcome to xyzetc"

pompeyrich

tripled wrote: »

I was following a gritter early doors this morning along the Herefordshire/Powys border, every time he crossed into Wales he would stop gritting and then when he crossed back he'd start again. I've always known they do that, but the first time I've actually been behind one for that stretch. You'd think the two councils would do a deal to share the border roads out.

Good for him, the Welsh already get free university education and free prescriptions, lets not give them "our" grit too