TRAVEL: Interactive map shows location of every gritter in North Yorkshire
Roads across North Yorkshire have been gritted over night as the recent cold snap begins to take hold.
The county’s gritting crews are on call 24 hours a day throughout the winter months, ready to treat roads whenever needed, often being out on the road from 5am.
The teams, provided by NY Highways, the highways maintenance company set up by North Yorkshire County Council, treat priority routes around the county.
Details of the county’s gritting operation can be found at www.northyorks.gov.uk/gritting.
This gives access to an interactive map, which shows the priority one and two routes and where gritters have been in the previous ten hours.
It also provides access to over two dozen roadside cameras, which relay live images of conditions on key routes around the county to help people with journey planning.
Priority 1 routes that connect or go through the county’s towns and are cleared before moving on to priority 2 routes, which give access to smaller communities.
During gritting operations, updates are posted on the county council’s Twitter account and Facebook page.
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