Winter Service Policy - Route priority
The winter service involves treating the highway in order to:
(a) Prevent ice from forming (precautionary salting)
(b) Melt ice and snow already formed (post-treatment)
(c) 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.