Highway Maintenance

Statistics

  • 45 salting routes are directly managed by Hampshire County Council on the county road network

  • The average length of each salt route is 35 miles

  • The average length of each snow route is 20 miles

  • Five tonnes of salt are carried by each lorry on a salting run

  • The average cost of salting one priority route is £400

  • The cost of a complete county-wide salt run is £22,000

  • It takes between 2½ to 3 hours to salt the entire priority road network

  • The entire county's maximum stock of salt is approximately 12,500 tonnes