Mastodawn

I was initially skeptical. But the more terrible and tortured puns I read, on the FediVerse and elsewhere, the more I am persuaded that #Keith might indeed be a good idea.

If we can have Gordon The Big Engine, and Ivor, we can have Keith The Gritter.

https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/name-oxfordshire-s-new-gritters

@bytebro #Oxfordshire #Oxford #Gritters

Name Oxfordshire’s new gritters!

Spreading smiles - and salt - across Oxfordshire! Last winter, 30 brand-new gritters joined Oxfordshire’s fleet, ready to hit the roads whenever temperatures drop below freezing. These vehicles play a vital role in keeping our county safe - salting over 1,960km of roads

Let's Talk Oxfordshire

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Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs

@JdeBP @bytebro Kilometers? Are road length totals in the UK measured in kilometers, even though speed limits and distances are in miles and all? #lang_en

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JdeBP Oct 23

@ellenor2000

We're almost wholly a #metric country.

There are about 2 things left that aren't: alcohol for human consumption (even some of that now measured in ml) and road distance and speed limit signs.

Fuel went metric years ago. Tyre pressures are in Pa or Bar; tread depths in mm. Boot capacities and engine capacities are in litres. Even the driver location signs on our motorways are in metric. As are height signs for bridges, multi-storey car parks, and petrol station forecourts.

Construction materials are in metric; and civil engineering, including grit spreading, has been metric for decades.

If you look at #Oxfordshire's "meet the gritters" doco, you'll see that #Keith The Gritter will have a mass in tonnes and a spread width in metres.

Picked at random for comparison, here's North #Yorkshire council measuring salt in tonnes and roads in km:

https://northyorks.gov.uk/roads-parking-and-travel/winter-service/road-gritting

@keefeglise @bytebro #CivilEngineering #Gritters

Road gritting

See when roads are gritted in North Yorkshire and view our gritting routes.

North Yorkshire Council