Winter Service Policy - Route priority
The Winter Service involves treating the highway in order to:
- Prevent ice from forming (precautionary salting)
- Melt ice and snow already formed (post-treatment)
- Clearance of snow
Priority routes have been defined from a hierarchy of carriageways and footways and take account of both strategic and local needs as follows:
Carriageways
- Main distributor roads
- Secondary distributor roads
- Main bus routes
- Transport interchanges and routes to them
- Roads leading to hospitals, ambulance, fire stations
- Steep gradients
Footways
- Transport interchanges
- Primary and secondary town centres
- Outside schools (when schools are due to open)
Cycleways
- Those which form part of the carriageway network that is included in the priority route for salting
- Those which share footways that form part of priority locations for treatment.