Local authorities are well used to claims from people who have tripped over pavements, but in some areas there has been a marked increase too in claims regarding social care or perhaps bullying in schools. The picture with regard to claims is a very patchy one across the country.
Quotes about pavements (13 Quotes)
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life.
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.
At last I will be able to walk on the pavements, use the road and even have to look for a police officer once more in the town where I live. Please BBC, tell your managers and the politicians that you were not welcome this year and I don't want you to come back. Let New Labour, the Tories and LibDems go and spend other people's money somewhere else and not disrupt the lives of the people of this town ever again.
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
I'd like to say that we're going to have wet or dry pavements by this morning, but there are no guarantees.
We try to design our pavements as efficiently as we can. If we have a limited supply of money, and we do, we might have to reduce the length of the job, delay other jobs, or look for other ways to save money.
GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.