COUNCILLORS want officers to look again at the classification of two country roads, so that they get gritted in winter sooner than at present.
They agreed to County Councillor Patrick Mulligan's request to review the status of Main Street, Lothersdale, and the Cononley to Cross Hills road which runs next to the railway line.
"The Cononley road is a safety issue. A school bus came off the road because it was not gritted and in Lothersdale people can get trapped because of the steepness of the road at both ends of the village," he said.
He was pressing for both roads to be reclassified as priority one which would mean they would be gritted first thing in the morning not later in the day as priority two roads, he added.
Craven area committee, which met in Bentham, recommended that the roads' status be considered again when the classifications was looked at again in September.
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