A range of trial improvements to the gritting service are to be piloted in Cambridgeshire over coming months.
The initial proposals include trialling the gritting of major cycle bridges in Cambridge, and treating secondary routes earlier. The trials will inform a major review, of which the results will be implemented next year.
The review followed requests for better gritting of cycling facilities and last year’s cold snap.
Under the proposals, 11 bridges will be gritted at the same time as the main roads. Secondary routes, which were previously only gritted after five nights of below-freezing weather, will be gritted when such a period of weather is forecast, rather than waiting for five days.
Cambridgeshire CC is also looking at new surfacing choices for cycleways to make them less likely to freeze.
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