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Nine crews from Dublin City Council spread 150 tonnes of salt across 300 kilometres of the road network in the early hours of this morning.
Staff were out between 2.30am and 6.30am as part of the council s Winter Maintenance Plan in place ahead of the expected bad weather.
Management say the council s salt barns are full to capacity and gritting lorries, snowploughs and operational staff from the Roads Division are on standby.
Forecasts
Dublin City Council has been closely monitoring weather forecasts over the past few days and has a Winter Maintenance Plan in place for the bad weather expected over the next 24 to 48 hours.
Kildare County Council says it does consider salting road routes outside the main ten routes
Over €700,000 spent on treating icy roads
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Kildare County Council spreads salt on ten major road routes in ice and snow conditions but in times of severe weather it may treat locations outside of the primary routes, generally following requests from public, elected members and local communities, a public meeting has been told.
At the January 25 meeting of the council Cllr Aoife Breslin asked for an outline of its winter preparation for the county including salting routes for the area and if they have or will consult with local community groups in preparation for such events.
Council reveals sections of two regional roads are not gritted because they don t have enough traffic
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Sections of a regional road which links Kildare town to Rathangan is not gritted because it doesn t have enough traffic, the Council said.
Parts of another route between Twomilehouse and Dunlavin are also not deemed busy enough to be gritted.
The information was revealed at the monthly meeting of Kildare Newbridge Municipal District today.
Cllr Mark Stafford had asked the Council to identify which regional roads in the Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District are not treated as part of the winter maintenance programme?