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What happens if we have a heavy snowfall? |
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In times of severe weather and heavy snowfall, the Council's policy is to ensure that all major roads, roads serving emergency services facilities and roads to outlying communities are kept open as a first priority. This is done by effectively ceasing work on non-essential roads until communications are restored.
The aim is to clear all traffic lanes on the Priority routes as soon as conditions permit and the time taken to achieve this will be determined by variations in local weather, snow depth and traffic densities.
Once the Priority routes are fully opened and can be maintained in a clear condition, snow ploughs will continue to operate throughout normal working hours clearing snow from roads in a descending order of priority.
Drivers should take particular care to watch for irregular accumulations of snow caused by ploughing operations and should not be temped to overtake snowploughs by squeezing into partially cleared lanes.
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