Joeri received a phone call yesterday afternoon asking if he could start spreading that same evening. “They asked if I could leave at 10 p.m. I then started and filled everything. My first route is all the approach roads to Waregem. That takes me about two hours. Then I do my second route, which is more in the center and around the schools. I was done around 3 o’clock last night.”
The city itself is responsible for salting municipal roads. The city knows when people need to go out through a local weather service. “We then call our people on duty and three teams are called to spread. The first team spreads the municipal roads, the second team the cycle and pedestrian paths and the third team spreads by hand in places where it is difficult to reach,” explains Philip Himpe, alderman for Mobility in Waregem.