Road gritting
Salford City Council carries out a regular winter road gritting programme which aims to, as far as possible, allow the safe movement of traffic on priority highways across the city.
Top priority is given to primary routes (see map below) and response times for full treatment (time taken from decision to salt being made to the completion of spreading) will not exceed three hours.
Other non-principal routes (secondary routes - see below) shall be treated, as and when necessary, following the completion of the primary routes. The target time for full treatment (time taken from the decision to salt being made to completion of spreading) shall not exceed eight hours.
The council's Sustainable Regeneration directorate is responsible for the overall management of the service and work is carried out by the Environment and Community Safety directorate.
The service consists of five scheduled routes maintaining 300 kilometres of highways in the city.
For details of our gritting schedules, please see the documents below.
Downloadable documents
- Map of primary gritting routes (Adobe PDF format, 7.8mb)
- Salford East - primary gritting route (Microsoft Excel format, 37kb)
- Salford West - primary gritting route (Microsoft Excel format, 41kb)
- Irlam - primary gritting route (Microsoft Excel format, 40kb)
- Swinton - primary gritting route (Microsoft Excel format, 36kb)
- Walkden - primary gritting route (Microsoft Excel format, 34kb)
- Secondary gritting routes (Microsoft Word format, 100kb)
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This page was last updated on 3 November 2011
