Snow clearing policy wrong
The magic of a snow storm – the Beast from the East (and I mean Shrewsbury!) worked its wonders once more snowing only on houses, back and side roads, fields and pavements but not a drop on main roads and motorways – no snow to be seen there and very little traffic due to the obvious factor that few motorists are able to drive away from where they live due to snow.
I walked to the shop for my paper. T, one of the lucky ones who do not have a car, the main roads through Oswestry where pristine, every trace of snow removed – the pavements? A totally different story. First, you had to find them (a clue – they are under those long, roadside drifts with lumps of ice the size of house bricks).
The team who organise this annual battle with the Beast from the East obviously have priorities, unfortunately they do not include pavements, back and side roads and very clearly not pedestrians and their personal effects ie: wheelchairs, pushchairs and prams, children, dogs and shopping. They are helped by nobody and hindered by other, horizontal pedestrians trying to regain their feet.
Your reward for this dangerous (and avoidable) annual inconvenience? Your council tax going up to help clean Shropshire’s 950 miles of roads in the future.
Bob Wydell, Oswestry
