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Gritters will be out on the city’s main roads tonight for the first time this winter with temperatures predicted to plunge to below 0C.

The forecast is for road temperatures to get to -0.9C with a risk of ice and hoar frost at 2am so Aberdeen City Council gritters will be out treating the…

About 11,500 tonnes of salt, 24 road gritters, 21 pavement gritters, and about 180 Council staff are ready to grit Aberdeen’s priority roads and pavements this winter.

The gritting team are often travelling to work on untreated roads to ensure the squad of gritter vehicles are treating the…

Residents across Aberdeen can now apply for a free one-tonne community salt bag to treat icy roads and pavements in their neighbourhood during the winter months.

The applications have been opened earlier than normal this year and, although it has been an unusually warm September, winter is…

Aberdeen’s roads and pavements winter gritting plan with an anticipated spend of £1.57million was agreed by councillors at Net Zero, Environment and Transport committee today.

A report to committee about the Roads Winter Service Plan said if winter conditions are more severe additional…

All available gritters are out on the city’s roads this morning (7 March 2023) as the City Council deals with the huge dump of snow which enveloped Aberdeen from 5am to 6am.

The primary routes -…

People are being warned that pavements and roads are likely to be very slippery tomorrow morning due to below 0C temperatures overnight and after the freeze-thaw-freeze experienced today.

Aberdeen City Council pavement and road gritters have been out all day and will be out overnight,…

Residents across Aberdeen can now apply for a free one-tonne community salt bag to treat icy roads and pavements in their neighbourhood during the winter months.

Although it has been quite a mild autumn so far, winter is fast coming…

Aberdeen’s roads and pavements winter gritting plan with an anticipated spend of £1.57million was agreed by councillors at Operational Delivery committee today.

A report to committee about the Roads Winter Service Plan said if winter…