Carol Valentine, winter service manager for Kent County Council talks about the well planned service to help keep Kent moving throughout the winter months.
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Hello I'm Carol Valentine I'm the winter service manager for Kent County Council and Kent County Council is ready for winter.
We've got over twenty three thousand tonnes of salt in our barns around the county and we will be using that salt on a third of our network, that's our main 'A' and 'B' roads to jennifer aniston keep those strategic routes clear when we get bad weather.
Here's an example of some of the salt that we've got, which is two and a half thousand tonnes, and we've got this all around the county.
The winter service is well planned and we have our drivers and our Lorries ready to carry out gritting across the county.
This year we've got a brand new fleet of around sixty vehicles which will be working all around the county to grit the roads when there needed.
The service is responsive and will respond wherever the bad weather is. So were not always necessarily salting the whole county, we will go to where that's needed. Its also time sensitive so when we get a forecast that were going to get bad weather that's when we send the lorries out and that's when you'll see them in your community and in roads around the county.
As we did last year, were working very much with partners to deliver the winter service.
Last year we worked very closely with our district council partners and they were able to clear our town centres, footways and foot paths and shopping centres, which we know are really important for members of our local communities.
We also work with parish councils and we gave parish councils a one ton bag of salt those who requested them, and again these were very useful resources in local communities and we're doing that again this year.
Very importantly to us is the work that we do with local farmers we've got over a hundred and eighty farmers lituania across the county who work in a contract with us, and when we get snow in those rural areas they go out with their tractors with ploughs that we provided and they clear two doors down those local rural communities to keep them going.
Around the county we have over two thousand salt bins which we fill at the beginning of the season, and we try to fill them as we go throughout the season. It's really important that local communities can use those and that resource is there for them to use. So please do use those and help out in your local communities.
To find out more about Kent County Council's winter service the routes we salt, where our salt bins are, how to drive safely in winter, and lots of other information about Kent's roads in winter please go to the Kent County Council website.
