What is our policy for gritting priority routes?
Priority routes are the most important for road users and are used by people travelling for business, leisure, recreational, educational and domestic purposes. In other words priority routes are chosen to maintain transport connections for as many communities as possible and are given priority over other more minor routes.The treatment times adopted by the county council are three hours and five hours for first and second priority roads respectively. This is achieved by ensuring that the first priority roads are treated early in the gritters pre-determined route.The Priority 3 Roads include bus and commuter routes in the urban areas and access to villages in rural areas. They are treated only after the Priority 1 and 2 Roads are clear, during daytime hours or when there is sufficient time at the end of the night’s work and before the normal working day begins, and only when a prolonged period of bad weather is forecast, normally of at least 72 hours duration.
