The following roads remain closed until at least 12 noon tomorrow (Wednesday) 23 January 2013:
• Mountain Road, Hairpin to Creg-ny-Baa – good progress has been made today, with three gritting teams currently working along with a snow blower attachment.
• Beinn-y-Phott – progress has been made utilising an excavator to remove large quantities of drifting snow, prior to gritting teams treating the area.
• Sulby Glen – progress is being made utilising an excavator to remove large quantities of drifting snow, prior to gritting teams treating the area.
• Injebreck – further assessment required.
• Brandywell Road – further assessment required.
• Sloc, Roundtable area – good progress made between Ronague and the Roundtable & the Roundtable to Ballamodha, utilising two gritting teams.
Other roads, Little London from Cronk-y-Voddy to Sartfield is now passable with care, deep snow overnight meant the deployment of a tractor fitted with a snow blade to clear the area this morning, the road has also been treated (gritted) in order to prevent freezing.
DOI are today concentrating their efforts on the high level routes, however there are substantial amounts of snow in a number of these locations, which has meant deploying snow blowing equipment & excavators in conjunction with gritting teams/equipment.
A further assessment of road conditions will be undertaken tomorrow morning, and efforts will continue to open these roads to members of the public as quickly as possible.
The DOI would like to thank the travelling public for their continued patience.
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