How are motorways cleaned?

yer man! · 14-08-2012 10:33pm #1

I travel on the M18 a lot and sometimes on the M6, the section after Ballinasloe. I notice that the road can get really filthy with broken bits of tyres and rubbish and crap and a lot of hedgehogs and badgers flattened. How do they clean them? not like you can run a street cleaner up the overtaking lane at 20 km/h.....

ronaneire · 14-08-2012 10:43pm

It does be the hedgehogs and badgers with their little wheelbarrows and brushes that do it

starch4ser · 14-08-2012 11:28pm

goblins and fairies

wandatowell · 14-08-2012 11:30pm

The Highway Men

PseudoFamous · 14-08-2012 11:32pm

road maintenance is generally done or contracted out by the company that built the road. You see them out often enough picking tyres and stuff out of the hard shoulder. County council deal with snow. Anything else is done by nature.

M4Girl · 15-08-2012 7:47am

On a PPP, winter maintenance is also done by the concessionaire. With all due respect to some councils, the PPPs tend to work to a higher standard. Winter maintenance is a full-time job for the PPPs.

There will be maintenance crews out in all weathers, day and night. They pick litter, pull ragwort, sweep channels, cut grass, clean signs, attend incidents and accidents, and generally keep the place looking half-way decent. Sometimes, the road users even say thank-you, which makes a big difference.

The lads and lasses do a tough job in tough circumstances. It would be nice if some folk took their litter home rather than chucked it out of the car window or dumped it at the back of the hard shoulder while pretending to stop for a wheel or light check.

I wish the litter goblins would do the job for us!