More than 100,000 miles of Somerset roads gritted this winter

With storms and ice galore over the past few months, Somerset Council’s winter-ready team went out 1679 times this winter covering more than 117,000 miles of Somerset’s roads. Teams from the council’s highways maintenance and winter service partner, Kier worked hard throughout the cold weather to treat the network and help prevent the formation ice. […]

Medway adopts pre-wet gritting, cutting salt use by 20%

VolkerHighways’ Medway highway maintenance contract has entered its second year of using pre-wet salt to grit the road network as an alternative to traditional dry salt. Pre-wetted salt is a mixture of dry rock salt that has been coated with a liquid brine solution before being spread on the road surface, essentially making it wet […]

Drivers urged to give gritters “time and space”

National Highways is reminding motorists give gritting vehicles time and space while they are out on the network. The message comes with more cold weather and snow forecast this week by the Met Office, and where conditions determine gritting vehicles need to go out, they will spread salt where needed. It also follows the recent […]