Winter Salting 2016/17

Please find below details of this winter’s gritting/salting regime, which has been forwarded to us by Essex County Council:

Map of salting Routes: http://www.essexhighways.org/Transport-and-Roads/Interactive-Maps-and-Live-Travel-Information/Highways-Information-Map/Highways-Information-Map-Portal.aspx

Policy: http://www.essexhighways.org/Transport-and-Roads/Roads-and-pavements/Winter-travel/Salting-routes.aspx

Salting routes
We have a total of 59 salting routes.  We operate 62 machines with ploughs plus two mini gritters.  All routes on the salting network are treatable in a maximum of 3 hours.

The salting routes consists of:

 ·       ’A’ roads that Essex Highways are responsible for. This excludes the A12, the A120          and the A130 which are administered by other organisations

·       ‘B’ roads

·       The access route to the main settlement of a Parish of 50 or more households not               already on the precautionary salting route

·       Roads served by at least 4 public bus services per day for 5 days per week or more

·       Roads that link sites of national importance (e.g. airports, ports, fuel refineries etc.) to         the main salting network

·       We also include roads which allow ambulance and fire stations access to the main             salting network

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