Council calltoget readyfor winter

Motorists across East Kilbride and Avondale have been urged to get ready for winter.

South Lanarkshire Council highlighted the importance of being prepared during its annual roads in winter awareness week.

It aims to remind communities that the season, and its potential effects on getting about, is just around the corner. The local authority has its winter fleet and 24/7 teams on stand-by but East Kilbride councillor John Anderson, chair of the council’s community and enterprise committee, wants people to plan ahead.

He said: “Our winter plan includes gritting 52 per cent of the road network when ice or snow is forecast as well as town centre footpaths.

“These gritting routes include roads giving access to hospitals, ambulance depots, fire stations, police stations and schools, A- and B-class roads and distributor roads in urban areas.

“In our rural areas we will also grit roads which provide the only way in our out of a community. As a rule, however, gritting routes do not include residential roads and paths.”