I’ve received a steady stream of calls and complaints about the gritting, most from within my Council ward but some without as well.
From my own experience, and from the information provided by local residents, it seems that whilst the Council has been very good at gritting the main roads, roads with significant traffic have been ignored and the pavements (even on major pedestrian routes) abandoned completely.
I accept that it is impossible to grit every single road, but there is really no excuse for the likes of busy through routes like Tynesbank and Parsonage Road not being gritted for traffic, and the pavements on Walkden Road remaining an ice rink days after the last snow stopped. Not good enough.
It’s the whole of Salford. Who needs to visit the ice rink in Swinton when you have the streets around here? Will it take an elderly person to fall and die from their injuries for the council to start caring?
In other counties there are grit boxes provided for people to grit their own streets/pavements away from main roads… I’ve never seen one in this area.
It’s a disgrace.