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Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

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Re: Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

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Post by BuildTheRobots »

I'm amazed Scotland have a real time map with also how long ago a road was gritted - much respect to them.

And the Gritter names are hilarious - but sadly don't (in my mind) beat Doncaster's "Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney"

Re: Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

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Post by Denvercoder9 »

BuildTheRobots wrote: post #2

I'm amazed Scotland have a real time map with also how long ago a road was gritted - much respect to them. And the Gritter names are hilarious - but sadly don't (in my mind) beat Doncaster's "Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney"

> I'm amazed Scotland have a real time map with also how long ago a road was gritted - much respect to them.

We've the same over in the Netherlands, even including temperature of the road surface - see https://www.rijkswaterstaatstrooit.nl/.

Re: Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

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Post by nathanm412 »

Denvercoder9 wrote: post #5
BuildTheRobots wrote: post #2

I'm amazed Scotland have a real time map with also how long ago a road was gritted - much respect to them. And the Gritter names are hilarious - but sadly don't (in my mind) beat Doncaster's "Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney"

> I'm amazed Scotland have a real time map with also how long ago a road was gritted - much respect to them. We've the same over in the Netherlands, even including temperature of the road surface - see https://www.rijkswaterstaatstrooit.nl/ .

Here in Columbus, Ohio, we have a site called the Warrior Watch - https://warriorwatch.columbus.gov/ww It does a great job of showing when my street was last plowed and what it's priority is. We haven't had a lot of use for them this winter though.

Re: Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

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Post by arethuza »

nathanm412 wrote: post #7
Denvercoder9 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm amazed Scotland have a real time map with also how long ago a road was gritted - much respect to them. We've the same over in the Netherlands, even including temperature of the road surface - see https://www.rijkswaterstaatstrooit.nl/ .

Here in Columbus, Ohio, we have a site called the Warrior Watch - https://warriorwatch.columbus.gov/ww It does a great job of showing when my street was last plowed and what it's priority is. We haven't had a lot of use for them this winter though.

One thing worth noting about that map is that it's only for major roads that appear to be the responsibility of Transport Scotland - local areas have their own snow clearing coverage e.g. Here is the map (sadly without automatic updates of gritter locations) for Fife where I live:

http://arcgisweb.fife.gov.uk/LocalViewEXT/Sites/publicWinter...

Mind you - the road where I live (which to be fair is rural and up a hill) was blocked for about a week the last time we had any serious snow and it was some local farmers with JCBs who actually cleared it.

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