Bournemouth council ready to face winter with new gritters (From Thisisdorset)
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Bournemouth council ready to face winter with new gritters
12:39pm Monday 6th September 2010 in
THESE new trucks will be ready to spread six tonnes of salt on the roads of Bournemouth during a single run if another harsh winter hits the town.
Bournemouth Borough Council has spent £120,000 buying three new gritters after having to contend with breakdowns and repairs to its old vehicles during the big freeze earlier this year.
The DAF lorries will also enable the council to cut running costs as computer route planning means they can be operated by one person instead of two.
Stuart Best, street services manager for the council, said: “Everyone remembers last winter was particularly harsh and it is fair to say the vehicles struggled to cope with the demands on them, particularly as they were very old.
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“Although we were able to maintain a full service, we did suffer breakdowns and urgent repairs were being carried out round the clock to ensure continuity of service.”
The council has stockpiled 1,000 tonnes of grit and salt ready for the winter.
Comments(17)
Tezza1965
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2:29pm Mon 6 Sep 10
EGHH
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4:49pm Mon 6 Sep 10
Tezza1965 wrote:I do hope so. Snow looks great on Xmas cards but not in real life thank you!
What are the bets that Dorset will now have one of the mildest winters on record!
captsanders
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5:24pm Mon 6 Sep 10
Tezza1965 wrote:Hope not, they haven't fixed the potholes from last winter yet.
What are the bets that Dorset will now have one of the mildest winters on record!
marcuscarcuss
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6:18pm Mon 6 Sep 10
captsanders wrote:No, their priority seems to be paying thousands to protect their **** watching leaders. £17,500 plus of our hard earned to keep McLaptop as a Councilor.
Tezza1965 wrote:Hope not, they haven't fixed the potholes from last winter yet.
What are the bets that Dorset will now have one of the mildest winters on record!
First nine grand spent on an outside firm to do an independent investigation that found he had indeed breached the code of conduct. Obviously they didn't like that answer so then paid a Queens Council three grand more to get a second opinion stating he hadn't. The Dept Monitoring Officer also spent over five thousand of our pounds in time on the case.
When you consider over thirty people were suspended immediately for sending a Viagra joke round but MacLaptop viewed over a hundred hard core images on his Council laptop and continues to hang on.
No wonder Bournemouth and this story appear once more in Private Eye's 'Rotten Boroughs' this week under the headline '**** Crackers'
West Howe Sean
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6:22pm Mon 6 Sep 10
With all the cuts unemployment is going to be unbelievable in a few years time. We need to create worthwhile jobs not be doing away with them.
West Howe Sean
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6:24pm Mon 6 Sep 10
With all the cuts unemployment is going to be unbelievable in a few years time. We need to create worthwhile jobs not be doing away with them.
Esqui
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7:14pm Mon 6 Sep 10
West Howe Sean wrote:If it had gone from single operator to double operator, the commenters here would have gone crazy about council wastage.
I'm not sure that we should be pleased that these can be operated by one person instead of two.
With all the cuts unemployment is going to be unbelievable in a few years time. We need to create worthwhile jobs not be doing away with them.
dizzy17
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7:30pm Mon 6 Sep 10
Trifecta
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7:41pm Mon 6 Sep 10
collarge
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8:06pm Mon 6 Sep 10
jobayob
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8:37pm Mon 6 Sep 10
West Howe Sean
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8:49pm Mon 6 Sep 10
collarge wrote:I think someone has made an excessive profit there.
That seems like a good price for those machines, here in Admirals Walk we paid £100,000 just to paint one side of our building.
How many quotes did your management company get? and what was the management company's relationship with the winning contractor?
grimreaper
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9:30am Tue 7 Sep 10
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Computer route planning ! ?
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They'll probably end up in WALES !!
sollie
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11:07am Tue 7 Sep 10
denisd
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1:31pm Tue 7 Sep 10
The word 'new', I assume, means new to the Council. Looking at the photo they are '53' registered. That makes them about eight years old.
grimreaper
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4:44pm Tue 7 Sep 10
denisd wrote:Well spotted dd,
Hope they don't follow their sat navs. They'll end up over the cliffs and on the beach. The word 'new', I assume, means new to the Council. Looking at the photo they are '53' registered. That makes them about eight years old.
I missed that bit !
3 @ 120K = 40K each !!
Which points to someone's worn out surplus stock from Ebay ?
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Milions on a Surf Reef, Imax and laptop **** and Peanuts on Roads, will any Bournemouth council ever give the tax payers VFM ??
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1:28pm Mon 6 Sep 10