Pedestrian pathway very icey

Updates

• This has been passed to our Winter Maintenance Team.

  We have a pre agreed salting/gritting route which is determined prior to winter to allow us to plan out the routes. Whilst we unfortunately can’t salt every single road in the county, we do cover over 44% of the county’s road network, a figure well above the national average.

  Most precautionary (primary) salting will be carried out during the evening or overnight, to avoid higher levels of traffic.

  For information on how we decide which roads to salt and when, please visit our webpage: Winter Salting.

  Foot paths are not routinely salted however, when possible, they may be cleared and treated after snowfall.

  Salt bins are filled before and during the winter season as priorities allow. They are provided at various locations throughout the county, which we encourage the public to use to treat localised icy conditions if necessary.

  For more information, visit our website:Salt bins

  Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 16:30, Friday 10 January 2025

• Update Each year a Winter Service Operations Plan is created and approved by the Operational Management Board which details how this Policy will be delivered. This plan includes a list of all agreed salting routes for the coming winter. The total length of Buckinghamshire’s road network is approximately 2000 miles, however, not all of it will be treated with salt during the winter season as there are limited resources available, so we must focus the service on priority routes that are required to keep general traffic in the county moving. These routes are sub-divided into primary and secondary routes for the purposes of prioritising precautionary salting. Primary precautionary salting routes are the most important routes required to keep everyone moving. They consist of approximately 900 miles of the county's busiest classified roads (all A and B roads, some C roads and other roads), approximately 44% of the total network. Once the Primary routes have been completed and if accumulations of snow in excess of 20mm are forecast we will carry out salting on the secondary routes, these typically include

  • Classified roads that are not included in the primary salting routes
  • Unclassified roads serving communities of 200 dwellings or more
  • Unclassified roads with a gradient of 10% or more

  Unfortunately, the road named on the report you made does not fall within the Primary gritting route, so unless there is a 20mm of snow forecast and it meets the criteria above for secondary routes we will not be gritting this road. Salting the road does not automatically remove the dangerous snow and ice, the road needs traction from vehicles to mix up the salt with the water to make a brine solution. But please note this is not effective if the road temperature is -6 or lower, so do take extra care even if you know the road has been salted and always drive to the conditions of the road as per the Highway code.

  State changed to: Closed

  Posted by Buckinghamshire Council at 12:19, Monday