The plan would show which roads were to be gritted, when they would be gritted and the weather conditions under which that would take place.
I thought that they were carefully planned, but the roads were not gritted properly and that allowed the accident to occur.
One is reminded of his memorable phrase that "the routine words of praise delivered through gritted teeth deceive nobody".
We wish to see more private enterprise cleaning the side roads and keeping them gritted.
They might occasionally find themselves enjoying it, rather than enduring it through gritted teeth, as seems to be their feeling today.
The second problem is that people have no way of knowing whether the roads have been gritted.
But that is the price that we pay—albeit through gritted teeth—for democracy.
We can only just, with gritted teeth, withstand a 10 % reduction, above all because only 50 % of this will be compensated.
