While it’s been very cold weather out there, our brilliant gritting gang have been bringing the salty stuff to the county’s roads
Lincolnshire County Council’s gritting teams have been working around the clock to keep the county’s roads safe during the past few days of snowy and freezing weather.
Since the latest cold snap began on 30 December, LCC has carried out 11 full gritting runs across the county. These took place across the day and night ranging from as early in the afternoon as 3pm to as late into the small hours as 3am, to treat the ice forming on key routes.
During the period up until this evening (January 5), our 47-strong (43 on the road, four spares ready to take over if any route has an unplanned issue) fleet of gritters covered a total of 34,946 miles (52,778 kilometres) across Lincolnshire’s huge road network.
Nearly 3,600 tonnes of salt were used during these 11 runs with each run using an average of 325 tonnes for each pass. That works out at around 650 tonnes being spread on the roads overnight.
So far this winter, LCC has used nearly 9,000 tonnes of salt across 28 full gritting runs and is ready to turn out as needed to keep main routes across the county useable.
Darrell Redford, Network Resilience Manager at LCC said: “We are working hard to keep the roads in as good a condition as we can during these very cold temperatures.
“The ice and snow are constantly changing conditions to deal with, and we use an array of technology, local knowledge and equipment to get the most improvement to the road network where it can benefit the most people.
“Whilst our drivers and gritting team are out around the clock in often perilous conditions putting the salt on the road, we can’t be everywhere so the advice it to stay alert, drive to the conditions and allow for more time if you have to make a journey.”
For more on LCC’s gritting go to: www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/maintenance/winter-road-management.
For up-to-date information about this and other roadworks, please visit www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/roadworks.