Ice work if you can get it!...

Right that's 10 yards done. Now for the rest of Tonbridge!

Tonbridge Blog hasn't had much of a moan for ages now (oh alright then a few days anyway!) but couldn't help feeling a little surge of annoyance welling up when passing the pathetic sight of a couple of blokes wearing high viz jackets, with a shovel and a brush between them, on Pembury Road this morning. It seems as though they alone are responsible for the battle against the whole of Tonbridge's icey pavements. As hard as they work, and I'm sure their backs are aching from it all, they must be fighting a losing battle. People are slipping a-over-t left, right and centre all across town. I only managed to avoid falling on my backside by walking on the roads and having to dodge cars and vans; a danger in itself of a different kind. Come on isn't it about time that the councils (note plural for here lies the problem in my opinion) get their acts together and invested in some decent pavement clearing equipment. If Tesco can do it for their carparks then surely Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council and KCC can manage it between them!  Why should it be safer on the roads than it is on the pavements? How does that sit with the council's and government's other drives to get people out and about and getting fitter, leaving their cars at home? Where's the joined up thinking or is it all gloss and spin? This is the third year running now that we've had serious disruption caused by snow and ice so come off it guys stop short changing us council tax payers and spend some of our cash on much needed mini ploughs and gritters....