Council grits roads while pavements remain hazardous

1.14.00am GMT Wed 13th Jan 2010

Liberal Democrat campaigners in Hammersmith and Fulham are challenging the council to to justify the lack of gritting of pavements in the borough, after complaints about the dangers posed to pedestrians.

Residents understand that shortages of gritting salt mean that not all roads can be gritted, but several days after the snow pavements on some of our shopping streets, such as Askew Road, remain too icy to use safely. Traders in the forgotten areas fear that the council's policy will attract shoppers away from their local shopping parades to the larger centres such as Shepherd's Bush, where there is no ice on the pavements.

Parents have also protested that by devoting all their resources to gritting the roads while leaving the pavements dangerously slippery, the council is undermining its own policy to get more children out of cars and walking to school.