About gritting routes
Our gritting service runs from October to April.
Our gritters are on standby 24 hours a day during this time. This includes Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Help us grit your road
Please try to avoid double parking during gritting times. You can keep up to date with when we grit by following #RochdaleGrit on social media platform X.
We ask you to do this because we can struggle to grit a few roads, including Norton Rose and Barn Meadows, due to the width of the gritter and double parking.
Gritting routes
We've 7 planned gritting routes covering roughly 208 miles of road. Each route typically takes around 4 hours to complete.
View lists of treated roads included in our gritting routes
When we aim to grit roads
We aim to treat roads in order of priority:
- Top priority roads: including main roads, major bus routes and streets with access to hospitals and schools. We aim to treat these roads within 2 hours of a cold-weather forecast.
- Standard priority roads: including main roads through housing estates and minor bus routes. We aim to treat these roads during normal winter conditions after top priority roads have been treated.
- High altitude roads: including roads which have sections where frost and ice regularly form. We aim to treat these roads when negative temperatures have been forecast.
You can find out how we decide which roads to grit in our Winter Service Policy.
Salt bins
We provide many salt bins for you to use in the borough.