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Street Care and Cleansing
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The various types of street maintenance are grouped into four activities:
- Operations is the routine work needed to keep the roads safe to use by filling potholes, salting the roads and clearing snow in winter.
- Preventative Maintenance is work such as thin overlays that arrest deterioration and help to stop roads and pavements becoming too damaged, with a view to extending their life.
- Strengthening is the work needed to repair the roads when they are no longer strong enough for the cars and lorries that use them.
- Specialist activities is the work required to maintain safety fences, barriers and antiskid surfaces.
Key Facts and Services:
- Maintain 935 Km of roads
- Maintain 380Km of footpaths
- Resurfacing carriageways
- Reconstructing footways
- Patching of footways and carriageways and potholes
- Provision of and maintenance of anti-skid sites
- Provision of and maintenance of white and yellow thermoplastic road markings
- Provision and maintenance of street nameplates
- Provision and maintenance of pedestrian guardrails
- Maintenance and replacement of concrete and cast iron bollards
- Winter gritting operations
- Provision and maintenance of grit bins
- Maintenance of non illuminated traffic and direction signs
- Provision and maintenance of street benches
- Maintenance of Public Clocks
- Provision of vehicular crossings
- Provision of wheelchair crossings to assist the disabled
- Control the activities of the statutory undertakers
- Issue licences for skips, scaffolds and road opening licences
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