{"id":684526,"date":"2026-01-09T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:14:13","slug":"lancashire-where-have-the-gritters-treated-in-my-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684526\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire: Where have the gritters treated in my area?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">County councillor Warren Goldsworthy, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: &#8220;The map gives people a clearer picture of what&#8217;s happening on the road network during winter weather, showing where gritting is taking place and which routes have already been treated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he warned drivers to take extra care in freezing conditions, even on roads that have been treated because &#8220;even after gritting, roads can remain icy in very low temperatures&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Traffic is needed to help the salt work, which is why treated roads may still feel slippery at times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the winter period, the council has up to 150 trained drivers available around the clock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said treating the county&#8217;s approximately 1,800 miles (about 2,900km) of priority roads typically takes up to four hours, although this can take longer during severe or prolonged winter weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County councillor Warren Goldsworthy, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: &#8220;The map gives people a clearer picture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-684526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865325729272339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}