Via East Midlands, who manage the county’s highways on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council, grit when road temperatures are predicted to be at or below zero degrees and when snow and/or ice is predicted to settle on the road surface.
23 gritting lorries, out of Via’s 31-strong fleet, are stationed across the county and grit 1,169 miles of Priority One routes. These include ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads (approximately one-third of the county’s entire road network), strategic routes carrying high traffic flows, main urban distributor roads and also main bus routes. The map below shows our main routes in purple and secondary snow routes in green.