The Netherlands uses gritters to cool streets down

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The local authorities have deployed the use of gritters to spread salt on certain roads in order to cut down the heat of the asphalt. Utrechtse Heuvelrug is not the only area using gritters, as Noorderveld, in the northeast of the Netherlands, is doing the same to its roads.

The explanation in Noorderveld is that the salt pulls humidity from the air, which in turn cools down the tarmac. This should prevent streets from cracking and the surfaces from sticking. The rather unconventional method of cooling streets down is mainly in operation in the east of the Netherlands, near the German border.

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