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During the winter months the sun is low in the sky, this causes poor visibility. Make sure you keep sunglasses in your car.
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❄️Temperatures will be low across the South East trunk roads this evening.
🚛We'll have 30 gritters carrying out treatments with 13 patrolling overnight
➡️Gritter tracker: https://bit.ly/4a2QnZs
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❄️Temperatures will be low this evening with ice expected across the North West trunk road network
🚛We'll have 24 gritters carrying out treatments with a further 17 patrol vehicles monitoring conditions overnight
➡️Gritter tracker: https://bit.ly/4a2QnZs
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UPDATE: Works on the A9 at southbound on-slip at Luncarty now require an extra night of works on Sunday 18 January.
➡️ Slip road and one lane of the A9 will be closed during working hours with a signed diversion in place.
Full details:
Operatives are a vital part to the BEAR Scotland winter service. From driving gritters to clearing floods and fallen trees, our winter operatives are out keeping the roads open.
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One night of overnight carriageway improvements on the #A83 north of Minard on the night of Wednesday 28 January, 7pm and 6am.
🚧 Road closure with time access for vehicles at 8pm, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm, midnight, 1am, 2am, 3am, 4am and 5am.
Full details:
‼️ UPDATE: The carriageway closure on the #M9 scheduled for the night of Monday 19 January will now be in the southbound direction, and two additional northbound carriageway closures are scheduled, on the nights of 26 and 27 January.
Updated details:
UPDATE: Unfortunately, due to changes in the programme, drainage works on the #A82 between Arden Roundabout and Cameron Club could not start last night (Thursday 15 January) as planned.
Works will now start on Monday 19 January.
All treatments complete across the network but it's still cold out there - see where our gritters are through @trafficscotland's gritter tracker map here: http://www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-tracker
With the wintery weather drawing in, here are out top tips on keeping you are your car safe when driving behind a gritter
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UPDATE: Due to poor weather conditions impacting other works, overnight resurfacing on the #A82 near Onich will now start on Tuesday 20 January.
Overnight resurfacing works are planned on the #M8 eastbound between Junction 5 and Harthill:
⛔ Eastbound carriageway closures
📆 10, 11, 12, 13 and 16 February
🕗 20:30 to 06:00 each night
Details:
At BEAR Scotland we’re always looking for ways to take care of the environment and work sustainably.
Find out how here: https://bit.ly/3YAy0rC
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NEW: The southbound slip road onto the #M9 at Junction 10, Craigforth, will be closed for investigation works on the nights of Monday 19, Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 January, between the hours of 19:30 and 06:00.
Full details:
❄️Temperatures will be low across the North West trunk road network this evening with ice and snow expected
🚛We'll have 29 gritters carrying out treatments with a further 18 patrol vehicles monitoring conditions overnight.
➡️Gritter tracker: https://bit.ly/4a2QnZs
#DriveSafe
❄️Temperatures will be low across the South East trunk roads this evening with a risk of snow on higher ground
🚛We'll have 45 gritters carrying out treatments with 25 patrol vehicles monitoring conditions overnight
➡️Gritter tracker: https://bit.ly/4a2QnZs
#DriveSafe
After a busy night, roads have been retreated and we still have 16 patrols out monitoring conditions. Very cold so please #DriveSafe & #TakeCare
Throwing objects out of your car window risks damaging property or harming people.
Please help keep our workforce safe and #GiveYourLittlerALift
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BEAR Scotland are responsible for managing and maintaining some of the country’s most important roads. We make sure the carriageways are safe and sound, but there’s a lot more to what we do than that. We also take care of grass cutting and weed control, road lighting and traffic signal maintenance, and we keep the signs clean to make sure you’ll always know where you’re going.
We’re committed to safety, so we undertake structural inspections of roads and bridges, gritting and ploughing in winter, emptying gullies and repairing safety barriers, and we approve the movements of abnormal loads around the roads network.
BEAR is always working hard to create a sustainable, environmentally friendly infrastructure for the future. We also design and supervise improvements to carriageways and authorise the opening of new roads.
We’re dedicated to providing a first-rate service and so we’re always busy, taking care of everything so you can get from A to B as safely and smoothly as possible.
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