Egg sucking time …. 🥚
If you click this link and then add your postcode you’ll get to the gritting maps for your location
from which you can discern the likeliest clearest route to the bingo, dog groomers or kebab shop.
*Priorities may differ.
Most councils split the gritting commitment in to Primary and Secondary routes. Roughly speaking these split thus …
Primary routes
Are treated during the day and night and will ‘pre-treated’ before bad weather hits. Gritting continues 24 hours a day if necessary, as previously.
Secondary Routes
Are generally only treated in the day with the first run being completed by mid-morning. This helps overcome problems of parked cars getting in the way of gritter vehicles doing their job on residential roads at night.
Trunk roads and motorways are the responsibility of the Highways Agency not your council.
Come the actual winter apocalypse, councils generally tend only to clear key routes to hospitals.
NB a lot of residential streets don’t get gritted by councils (or contractors).
On a lot of council grit sites you can navigate to a POC for getting salt bins refilled. Some councils also have ‘Volunteer Snow Wardens’ that help clear footpaths. Become one. Or start a whatsapp group. Share the effort. Pretend you’re about to get invaded by Trumpistan and you’re all frantically digging defences , you never know …
P.S. Wearing Microspikes saves you walking like Fred Astaire and ending up in A&E
