The city prepares for winter maintenance all year round.
Maintenance is not just about ploughing and gritting during snowfalls. What else falls under maintenance, and what changes and improvements have we made?
The purpose of winter maintenance
is to mitigate the impacts of adverse weather conditions on the usability of roads in the city.
Depending on the weather forecast, surface treatment is performed as a precaution against snow and ice, and roads and pavements are continuously ploughed and gritted during snowfall, thus making them usable as quickly as possible.
Throughout the year, we apply anti-slip and grippy surfacing to critical road sections, installing sensors to provide our dispatchers with up-to-date data on weather and road conditions.
We also provide the necessary equipment and personnel, and we have prepared the Winter Operations Plan.
Winter maintenance in Bratislava is ensured by:
A.I.I. Technical Services
44 large spreaders with ploughs over 4 tonnes
15 pieces of smaller spreaders with plough – Multicars up to 4 tonnes
22 vans with drivers up to 3.5 tonnes for the transport of manual workers
2 emergency crews consisting of one driver and three manual workers (to deal with the consequences of traffic accidents)
The scope of winter maintenance:
more than 4.6 million m² of roads (local class I and class II roads and passable road sections)
more than 156,000 m² of pavements, squares, footbridges, overpasses and staircases
The Bratislava Municipal Enterprise
4 Citymasters up to 3.5 tonnes for snow ploughing and gritting
5 vans for the transport of workers
2 Kubota mini tractors for salt loading
65 workers (of which ten are temporary workers)
1 emergency crew consisting of one driver and one manual worker
Scope of winter maintenance:
Contracted city districts
Scope of winter maintenance:
99,814 m² of pavements in eight city districts (Záhorská Bystrica, Lamač, Devínska Nová Ves, Vrakuňa, Podunajské Biskupice, Petržalka, Jarovce and Rusovce)