Mappa Mercia/gritting

The gritting routes map was last updated on 3rd December, 2010 at 10am.

Contents 1 Wolverhampton Gritting 2011-12 2 Walsall changes 3 Sandwell Grit Bins 4 Sandwell Gritting 5 Coventry Gritting 6 Dudley Gritting 7 Wolverhampton Gritting 2010-11 8 Walsall Gritting

Wolverhampton Gritting 2011-12

Wolverhampton's revised gritting routes are in the PDF at http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C0C4D587-8B7A-418E-BCBF-AA49A24599AC/0/WinterServicePlan201112.pdf

There are 9 Priority 1 gritting routes labelled A-I and 8 Priority 2 gritting routes labelled 1-8

If you are able & willing to trace round the existing gritting route and check for accuracy and/or amendements with:

• maintenance=gritting
• gritting=priority_1 (routes A-I)
• gritting=priority_2 (routes 1-8)
• gritting_route_ref=1 (numbers 1-8 and capital letters A_I)
• gritting_operator=Wolverhampton CC (The latter mainly to differentiate from neighbouring authorities)

please indicate below:

• A Brian DONE
• B Brian DONE
• C Brian DONE
• D Brian DONE
• E Brian DONE
• F Brian DONE Willenhall Rd to Moseley Rd via slip road? Moseley Rd to Willenhall Rd via slip road?
• G Brian DONE Gorge RD TL to Dovedale Rd should be TL Hall Lane SO Dovedale Rd
• H Brian DONE Stubbs Rd and Lea Rd transposed
• I Brian DONE
• Additional City Centre Routes BRIAN DONE except Park Lane Bus Depot and Hickman Avenue Depot - presumably these are internal site grittings?

please indicate below:

• 1 EdLoach CROWN STREET NORTH TR Cannock Road should be TL. SPRINGFIELD ROAD s/be SPRINGFIELD LANE? DONE
• 2 EdLoach COLLIERY RD, STATION RD s/be COLLIERY RD, STANTON ROAD? PLANETARY LANE SLIP TR Wednesfield Road - s/be Wednesfield Way? KENMERE WAY s/be KENMARE WAY? DONE
• 3 EdLoach Can't find Peascroft Avenue in OSM or on OS StreetView - perhaps where Peascroft Lane shows in Peascroft Wood? DONE
• 4 BRIAN
• 5 BRIAN DONE
• 6 BRIAN DONE
• 7 BRIAN DONE
• 8 BRIAN DONE

Walsall changes

• The depot is in Brownhills now, on the Pelsall Road, by Apex Road
• The section of the Cannock Road, to Wesley Road, to Straight Road are on gritting routes
• There's also some additional extras that WMBC are picking up, primarily around giving easier access to schools where there have been problems in the past. So for example, Furzebank Way. However these are planned to be done with a specific small gritting truck on a more spot to spot basis
• All driver-routes have changed, The impact on what roads are gritted is not yet known.

Sandwell Grit Bins

Sandwell has provided their list of grit bin locations in Nov 2011. You can get a copy of the Excel file here

Sandwell Gritting

Sandwell's gritting routes have finally been released; as a list of streets, as driver routes and as maps:

NB ALL THESE PDF MAP FILES ARE OS_DERIVED AND CROWN COPYRIGHT SO ARE IN FACT USELESS FOR OUR PURPOSES

Like Solihull they're not prioritised so they all need to be set at Priority 1

There are 8 Priority 1 gritting routes and the PDF files for each route can be located as shown below

• Gritting Route 1 - parts of West Bromwich and Great Barr
• Gritting Route 2 - parts of West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Yew Tree
• Gritting Route 3 - parts of West Bromwich, Tipton, Wednesbury and Oldbury
• Gritting Route 4 - parts of Tipton, Tividale and Wednesbury
• Gritting Route 5 - parts of West Bromwich, Oldbury and Smethwick
• Gritting Route 6 - parts of Cradley Heath, Old Hill, Blackheath, Rowley, Tividale and Oldbury
• Gritting Route 7 - parts of Oldbury and Bearwood
• Gritting Route 8 - parts of Smethwick, Bearwood and Oldbury
• This web page is for quality control purposes ONLY. It is based on OS maps an must not be used for tracing gritting routes (all Sandwell)

If you are able & willing to tag one of these routes with:

• maintenance=gritting
• gritting=priority_1 (all routes)
• gritting_route_ref=1 (label 1 - 8)
• gritting_operator=Sandwell_MBC (The latter mainly to differentiate from neighbouring authorities)

please indicate below:

indicate completion with "DONE" and please add any errors or ambiguities you find

• 1 Andy Mabbett - can't make sense of "At M5 J1, take third exit onto Telford Way and at island turn right onto Kelvin Way.
  At island, turn right onto Trinity Way continuing into The Expressway." Also, their map and street list both show Glover Street gritted on this route. SMBC notified. Other than that, DONE.
• 2 Done blackadder 13:38, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
• 3 Done user: miked29 6 November 2011
• 4 Done blackadder 10:08, 12 November 2011 (UTC). Changes at Burnt Tree Island mean that text description won't work (originally turned at roundabout).
• 5 Done user: miked29 13 November
• 6 Brian DONEBrianboru 11:42, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
• 7 Brian DONE Hagley Road West is in text description but not on pdf map and is also described as a Birmingham City Council Route
• 8 Brian Route says circle Burnt Tree roundabout which is no longer there. Turn right at Rolfe Street and go back along Tollhouse Way - presume we use the turn right filter lane DONEBrianboru 11:25, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

blackadder will discuss discrepancies directly with Sandwell in due course

Coventry Gritting

Coventry's gritting routes are in the PDF at www.coventry.gov.uk Like Solihull they're not prioritised so they all need to be set at Priority 1

There are 8 Priority 1 gritting routes labelled A-H

If you are able & willing to tag one of these routes with:

• maintenance=gritting
• gritting=priority_1 (routes A-H)
• gritting_route_ref=1 (capital letters A_I)
• gritting_operator=Coventry City Council (The latter mainly to differentiate from neighbouring authorities)

please indicate below:

• A
• B Brian
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H

Dudley Gritting

Dudley's routes are available as a list of streets, albeit only a few at time, but they have kindly provided the full Dudley gritting dataset

Wolverhampton Gritting 2010-11

Wolverhampton's gritting routes are in the PDF at http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3C13A5B2-8DF3-456B-92C7-E52BEF728660/0/winter_service_plan.pdf

There are 9 Priority 1 gritting routes labelled A-I and 8 Priority 2 gritting routes labelled 1-8

If you are able & willing to tag one of these routes with:

• maintenance=gritting
• gritting=priority_1 (routes A-I)
• gritting=priority_2 (routes 1-8)
• gritting_route_ref=1 (numbers 1-8 and capital letters A_I)
• gritting_operator=Wolverhampton MBC (The latter mainly to differentiate from neighbouring authorities)

please indicate below:

• A Brian DONE
• B Brian DONE
• C Brian DONE
• D Brian DONE
• E Brian DONE
• F Brian DONE
• G Brian DONE
• H Brian DONE
• I Brian DONE

please indicate below:

• 1 EdLoach DONE (only tagged ways that are gritted. Parts of route not gritted are gritted as part of other routes).
• 2 EdLoach DONE
• 3 EdLoach DONE reference to CENTRAL AVENUE TR PEASCROFT LANE seems impossible. Skipped line.
• 4 EdLoach DONE
• 5 EdLoach DONE
• 6 EdLoach DONE Woodland Avenue s/be Woodland Road, TR into Warstones Drive to RBT s/be TL
• 7 EdLoach DONE
• 8 EdLoach DONE

Walsall Gritting

Walsall's gritting routes are in the PDF at http://www.walsall.gov.uk/index/winter_service.htm

There are 16 routes (p14 onwards); 8 priority 1and 8 priority 2, all centred on Cable Drive depot, at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.59793&lon=-1.99386&zoom=16&layers=M

If you are able & willing to tag one of these routes with:

• maintenance=gritting
• gritting=priority_1 (routes 1-8)
• gritting=priority_2 (routes 9-16)
• gritting_route_ref=1 (numbers 1-8)
• gritting_operator=Walsall MBC (The latter mainly to differentiate from neighbouring authorities)

1. - Andy Mabbett - Done.
2. - Andy Mabbett - (problem: p17, After first "stop gritting", no "start gritting" before next "stop"; I've assumed gritting starts again on Littleton Street East, otherwise, why is the lane specified?). Owen Road & Birmingham Street sections also confusing. References to "Anson Road Junction"/ "Anson Junction" make no sense. Ends with two "stop gritting" sections. - Stopped at first "Anson" reference.
3. - Andy Mabbett - After Broadway, where is TR from West Bromwich Road to West Bromwich Street? - Otherwise, done.
4. - Andy Mabbett - Done.
5. - Andy Mabbett - Why the apparent detour, up and down Spring Road, without gritting? "Lichfield Street Left Slip Road" added to map. - Done.
6. - Andy Mabbett - lines 3-5 ("Foley Rd") not clear - Otherwise, done.
7. - Andy Mabbett - Norton Road does not run to boundary, so assume this includes part of Lime Lane?; No Wyrley Road, so assume Wyrley Lane; Can't find Castle Road off Howdles Lane. - Done.
8. - Brian - `Problems follow: Bradford St TL to Corporation St TR Pleck Road - couldn't make any sense of these directions. Entrance to and exit from Park Road Bloxwich is ambiguous; is my choice the correct one? High St Bloxwich TL and start gritting Green Lane: is the slip road the route and does it get gritted? Also TL from High St is into Somerfield Road which only becomes Green Lane after the roundabout according to our data. - DONE
9. - Brian Problems follow Essington Rd TR Dorchester Rd should be TL. DONE
10. - Brian Problems follow Is Diversion due to Bridge Closure on Bentley Road South still in operation? DONE
11. - Brian Problems follow Wolverhampton St TR Pinfold St Stop Gritting should be TL. DONE
12. - Brian DONE
13. - Brian Problems follow: Chester Rd TR Lazy Hill Road should read TL.At end of route Chester Rd TR Castlehill Rd should read TL DONE
14. - Brian Turn direction Daw End Lane to King George Crescent missing. Turn direction King George Crescent to Floyds Lane missing - have I chosen the correct direction? Broadway North TL Princes Avenue not sure I've used the correct route here. DONE
15. - Brian DONE - there were problems but I lost all my wiki edits - they're only minor and the gritting route is complete
16. - Brian Problems follow: Harden Rd TR start gritting Coalpool Lane - Coalpool Lane is TL from Harden Rd. The Pinfold TL Goodhall St is Woodall St according to our data and OS StreetView. Ingram Road TR Start gritting Field Road SO The Pinfold - to do this you need Ingram Road TL. Wolverhampton Road TL Clarendon St you need TR. New St TR Stop gritting Clarendon ST TL Elmore Green Rd to get to Elmore Green Rd you need New St TL Clarendon St. DONE