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Originally Posted by Nidge
Can't get out round here because the Tories have slashed the gritting budget by 40%.
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You never let facts get in the way of a rant, do you?
They are talking about reducing a future budget
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The Conservatives plan to cut £50,000 from the cost of gritting in 2010/11
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(so it has no effect on the roads at the moment, but hey, feel free to totally twist the facts
), and they are planning the same amount of gritting, just doing it in a different way -
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Conservative cabinet member for transport, Coun Richard Jackson, said: "At the moment we use 10 millimetre salt. In future, we will keep salt stores under cover, so we can use six millimetre salt. Outdoors, some salt leaches away and six millimetre salt is a bit cheaper.
"There is no change to the roads we are going to be gritting. We will be spreading at the same rate and because the salt is almost half the size we get better coverage."
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