Gritting team tackles winter conditions to keep residents safe
Bury Council’s winter maintenance teams have been working day and night to help keep the borough’s key roads moving over the winter months.
Bury Council’s winter maintenance teams have been working day and night to help keep the borough’s key roads moving over the winter months.
Council gritting teams have been out 15 times during the recent cold snap from 5 to 18 December.
Bury Council’s Winter Service Team is gearing up to work day and night to help keep key roads across the borough moving over the winter months.
Bury Council’s winter maintenance teams have been working day and night to help keep the borough’s key roads moving over the winter months.
Bury Council’s gritters are heading out at 7.30pm tonight (Wed 3 Nov) on their first run of the season as temperatures are forecast to drop.
It may technically be autumn, but Bury Council’s winter service team have already been out gritting on five nights as temperatures have dropped.
The long winter meant that Bury Council’s gritting teams were out working more than twice as many times as usual.
Bury Council’s gritting team has already been in action 14 times this winter – and, with icy conditions forecast for the weekend, that number is sure to rise.
Bury Council’s winter service, which runs from the start of October until the end of April, is currently in operation and is already taking action whenever temperatures take a dip.
Bury Council’s winter service is currently in operation ready for any dip in temperature, and the gritters have already been out several times over the last couple of weeks.
Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.
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