Dear Mr Monk Thank you for your reply, it will take us a couple of weeks to complete the map. You can of course follow the progress at http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml and we would be delighted to have a link on your website once it's completed.
Regards Brian Prangle On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Monk, Oliver (Places Directorate - Solihull MBC) <om...@solihull.gov.uk> wrote: > Dear Mr Prangle, > > As you have seen the gritting routes are in our Winter plan attached to the > Solihull website. There are 9 routes and these are all treated on a regular > basis during cold weather. These routes are made up of roads considered > priority A and B. In times of extreme weather and with sufficient stocks of > gritting salt we will also grit Priority C roads on request. When salt > stocks start to run low (as they have this year) we stop gritting priority C > roads and concentrate on preserving salt to ensure that the main routes can > be kept clear. Should salt stocks run even lower with no sign of resupply > then we would cut back to primarily A and B roads as happened in February > 2009. We haven't published those routes as we have not had to take that > measure yet this year and hopefully we won't have to. > > I'd be very happy for you to add our normal gritting routes to the map and > I think this would be an excellent public service. Would you be happy for us > to add a link from our website to the map once it's completed? > > If there is any other information you'd like from Solihull MBC please > contact me and I'll happily supply it or try to at least put you in contact > with someone who can. > > Regards, > > *Oliver Monk* > Assistant Engineer > Transport, Highways and the Environment > Solihull MBC > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:br...@mappa-mercia.org] > *Sent:* 17 January 2010 19:38 > *To:* Community Services Directorate - Solihull MBC > *Subject:* Winter Gritting > > Dear Sirs > > We would like to replicate the gritting map for Birmingham City Council to > be found at http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting-map.shtml for Solihull. I > have downloaded your winter plan which contains details of the gritting > routes but this does not indicate any level of priority ( categorised as A B > and C on your web page http://www.solihull.gov.uk/transport/gritting.htm) > Are all 8 routes of equal priority? > > Regards > > Brian Prangle > > Community Co-ordinator OpenStreetMap West Midlands > > ********************************************************************** > DISCLAIMER: > ‘This e-mail and files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not > the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete the > message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and > do not necessarily represent those of Solihull Council unless explicitly > stated otherwise. Solihull Council may monitor the contents of e-mail sent > and received via its network for the purposes of ensuring compliance with > its policies and procedures. The contents of e-mails may have to be > disclosed to third parties following a request under legislation such as the > Data Protection Act 1998 or the Freedom of Information Act 2000.’ > ********************************************************************** >
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