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In the visits on which this report is based, of the 58 English and Welsh
County Councils, 13 (22%) were unable to give any information on the costs of
grass cutting; this compares with the figure of 33% from the smaller sample of
English, Welsh and Scottish counties derived above from the Marshall Report
(see page 39). In explanation, an attitude was expressed that mowing was
traditional and necessary, that there was little opportunity to economise and
that detailed costing would be a pointless and time-consuming exercise.
Some costs per mile for the 1971 season (unless otherwise stated) are shown
in Table 12 for a number of counties.
Table 12. Cost per mile of grass cutting per season on separate classes of
rural County <strong>road</strong>s for 1971, except where indicated. The Principal
<strong>road</strong> and Numbered <strong>road</strong> classifications overlap and so are shown
separately.
Non-
County All <strong>road</strong>s T Principal I I1 111 U/C Principal
Ref. a: S S E a : a: a: a:
1971 (16)-64-(97) - - - - - -
23 37 - - - - - - -
39 - - 112 - 60 60 28 -
40 - 27 14 - - - - 4
10 - 25 23 - 1 7 8 8 -
3 1 1970 58 - 39 25 15 8 -
(1971 one particular <strong>road</strong> *65) - - - - - -
41 1970 30 - 40 - 1 2 8 5 3 -
42 1969 "38 - - - - - - -
1971 17 - - - - - - -
5 - 106 - 58 46 43 28 -
29 1972 113 65 - - - 99 48
33 20 - 30 62 - 50 43 23 15 -
30 - 46 36 - - - 12 15
27 30 - - - - - - -
Average cost
(* excluded)