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# Transport bosses defend decision not to grit road after drivers were forced to abandon cars at Lichfield Trent Valley station
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/transport-bosses-defend-decision-not-to-grit-road-after-drivers-were-forced-to-abandon-cars-at-lichfield-trent-valley-station/
- Published: 2017-12-13T18:37:25.000Z
- Updated: 2017-12-13T18:37:25.000Z
- Description: Transport chiefs have defended their decision not to grit the access road to Lichfield Trent Valley station.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Transport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:23, News

Transport chiefs have defended their decision not to grit the access road to Lichfield Trent Valley station.

[![The iced-over bridge leading from Lichfield Trent Valley station's rear car park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/img_20171211_151747.jpg)](//lichfieldlive.co.uk/2017/12/11/winter-weather-continuing-to-take-a-toll-across-lichfield-and-burntwood/img%5F20171211%5F151747/)

The iced-over bridge leading from Lichfield Trent Valley station’s rear car park

A number of motorists were forced to abandon their cars over the weekend after the hill up to the railway bridge from the rear car park became covered in ice, leaving many drivers unable to navigate the slope.

> Please get your gritters down to the new bridge and car park at [#Lichfield](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lichfield?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) Trent Valley railway station, [@StaffordshireCC](https://twitter.com/StaffordshireCC?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) [@StaffsPrepared](https://twitter.com/StaffsPrepared?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) Several stranded cars and drivers 😣 [@Lichfield\_DC](https://twitter.com/Lichfield%5FDC?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) [@networkrail](https://twitter.com/networkrail?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) [pic.twitter.com/GLpFCvMXPe](https://t.co/GLpFCvMXPe?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk)  
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> — Neil Spencer (@nspen1) [December 8, 2017](https://twitter.com/nspen1/status/939207436447240193?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk)

> Ridiculous this hadn't been gritted. 40 mins to get off the car park. Thanks to a mystery fellow driver for helping me up the bridge.  
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> — gemma ridley (@Geminem\_89) [December 8, 2017](https://twitter.com/Geminem%5F89/status/939214296529231878?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk)

> Not sure this is good enough [@StaffordshireCC](https://twitter.com/StaffordshireCC?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk). You sharing the Winter Olympics with South Korea? This would make a banging toboggan track [#coolrunnings](https://twitter.com/hashtag/coolrunnings?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) [#wheresthegrit](https://twitter.com/hashtag/wheresthegrit?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) [pic.twitter.com/MeUvowGxIK](https://t.co/MeUvowGxIK?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk)  
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> — Ben Quain (@benquain) [December 12, 2017](https://twitter.com/benquain/status/940619943711830016?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk)

The route is not on Staffordshire County Council’s list of routes for gritting – and Cllr Helen Fisher said the scale of the challenge facing gritting crews in recent days meant only essential routes could be treated.

Cllr Helen Fisher, Cabinet support member for highways and transport, said: “Our fleet of 43 gritters is out every night at the moment to keep the county on the move in often very difficult conditions.

“In periods of prolonged bad weather, if we can spare gritters from the main routes we will grit other roads as we can.”