Amazing Highways co-incidence

If, like at least one member of the webteam, you live in a road paved with bricks rather than tarmac, this is the time of year you mow the road because of all the grass and weeds that grow between the bricks.

Yesterday, while clearing some of the weeds manually – never being sure whether you can put weedkiller down on an adopted road – a decision to phone Cheshire East Council was made to see whether they would come out soon to treat the road before it became a green lane.

By a remarkable co-incidence, less than a minute later, a Cheshire East Highways survey van turned in to the road. It was clear that it was conducting a road safety check.

The van stopped when waved down and the highways engineers were more than happy to take photographs of the crop of weeds, report them and have them treated – what a result! Well it will be once the work is completed – which we are sure will happen.

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