The main roads in Barnsley are just as well treated as the main roads in Wakefield. Royston has relatively few priority routes. If you look at similar places in Wakefield, like Crofton or Ossett, you'll see they are no different to Royston. There is a trade off for not living on busy main routes like the A61 and that trade off is NOT being a higher priority.
That said, Lee Lane and Church Street/Carlton lane have been gritted and ploughed twice everyday and have remained open. All main junctions have been gritted by hand, everyday and the food deliveries, doctors, chemists and emergency services have all remained open. These are the council priorities.
We can always more and there will always be disruption but every time a full gritter goes out it costs several thousand pounds.
As with last year, there are issues with the low temperatures. Gritting is effective only above about -8 degrees. Below that it is ineffective and counterproductive. Snow ploughing is likewise limited to snowfall at certain levels above and below which it creates other issues.
The council can't catch the snow as it falls, we all need to take a bit more responsibility, take a few more steps to help ourselves and accept that adverse weather happens. Nobody is to blame, not even the government.