With ice and snow set to hit the Brigg area in the weeks and months ahead, North Lincolnshire Council has carried out its annual Winter Service Review.
This sets out what will be done, and by whom, when bad weather strikes.
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| Salting of Wrawby Street, Brigg, within the pedestrian area, to make walking easier for shoppers. |
The report by the Director of Operations makes reference to the salt bins provided at various locations, including Brigg, and points out that the contents are not there for people to spread on their own driveways.
It says: "All salt bins are checked on a monthly basis by the local Ward Officer. During severe weather conditions, the frequency of these checks will be increased as required.
"Where the content of a salt bin is misused by local residents (use of salt on private driveways etc), the bin may be removed from that location following consultation."
Salt bins are often provided where there are inclines in the road, such as alongside Churchill Avenue, Brigg (pictured above).
Parish and town councils across the area are also involved in assisting local people during periods of ice and snow.
Salting Priorities (gritting to most us) are set out as follows...
High Risk priority: Principal and main routes, hospital and bus routes to keep the road network open so that businesses and commuters are able to keep on the move and essential deliveries can be made and vital services are accessible.
Medium risk priority: Pedestrian precincts, estates roads and main car parks, linking with the above reasons on a community level.
Low risk priority: minor routes, cycleways and footways, tourist attractions.
'Pedestrian precincts' will include our town centre's main shopping area, Brigg Blog suggests.
There is £2,000 allocated in the budget for snow-clearing in Brigg.
We haven't had a bad winter for some years now so the law of averages might now work against us.
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| A special quad bike deployed in Brigg some years ago to deal with icy paths. |
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| Market shops in Brigg following a snow-falls in past years. |
1 comment:
This is small fry compared with snow clearance at RAF bases in the 60's.
At Waddington, at that time a Vulcan 'V' Bomber base, the runways had to be kept open at all time, just in case the Ruskies decided to visit.
Their snow clearing vehicle was an Olympus jet engine on a trolley...the same jet engine fitted to the Vulcan and later fitted to Concorde.....The device was like a flying bedspread and had the potential to whip along at sonic speed unless it was kept under control.
ONE or two of the ground crew chiefs had permits to drive the thing...but the poor souls would had to sit in the open atop the engine....a position that was often too hot, or too cold....after each run, the chiefs had to be thawed out with Bovril and a sticky bun from the NAAFI* snack wagon!
*In my time, the NAAFI wagon was staffed by Salvation Army staff...
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