Preparing for winter

Keeping Staffordshire's roads safe

We want your winter journey in Staffordshire to be safe and trouble free and these pages offer you helpful advice and useful links.

To help our Staffordshire Highways teams combat icy road conditions we use a host of sophisticated tools:

Weather monitoring stations, road sensors, meteorological forecasts and state of the art computer software provide us with advance warning so we know when to salt before the roads start to freeze. Purpose built salt spreading and snow ploughing vehicles are able to lay down precise quantities of salt to deal with the prevailing conditions.

Once the decision has been taken to salt the roads we aim to treat Staffordshire's priority routes within two hours from the start of salting. 

We are currently carrying out precautionary salting to priority routes only i.e. A and B class roads.

In addition, salt is being applied by hand at critical locations that would normally be included in the treated network.

Our highway teams are also hand spreading salt in priority locations such as town centres and other busy pedestrian centres and, at locations that would normally be serviced by grit bins.

If it snows heavily our snow ploughs are mobilised.  They clear the most heavily used roads first before  moving on to other routes on the network.

To report a problem on the Highway Network go to How to Contact Us.

During this prolonged period of cold weather, our Contact Centre is receiving high volumes of calls and, to ensure we are able to respond to high priority requests, please only contact us where the situation is considered to be an emergency.

Further Information can be found in the Winter Service Policy.

 Winter Service Policy - 2008 Review.pdf (235KB)

 

 

Last Modified: 21/05/2010 11:55:45
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