Email Subscription City requests public’s help with snow plowing efforts
City of Champaign Public Works staff is asking the public’s cooperation and assistance in expediting the City’s street clearing efforts with the following requests:
- Please remove vehicles from City streets, if possible, or at least off of primary routes. One option is the Hill Street Parking Deck in downtown.
- Do not blow/plow snow from private property into City streets. Doing so requires trucks to go back and re-plow certain areas which takes away from clearing other streets.
- Do not blow/plow snow from private property onto medians. Once temperatures rise, melting snow from snow piled on medians flows onto streets creating hazardous icy/slick spots.
- Whenever possible, stay home. If you are on the roads, drive cautiously, be aware of and careful around snow plows, plan ahead and allow extra time.
- Monitor the City’s website, CGTV Cable Channel 5 and local media for updated information; or call Public Works Operations at 403-4770.
The City’s Public Works Department continues to utilize all available resources in response to the current winter storm. High winds up to 25 mph are forecasted for the area later today with gusts up to 35 mph around daybreak on Wednesday, making blowing and drifting snow the biggest challenge to the City’s street clearing efforts. Crews will continue to focus on plowing and limited salting of primary routes before moving on to secondary routes, dead-ends, and cul-de-sacs. Primary routes, which make up approximately 50 percent of the total street system, include arterial streets, collector streets, bus routes, and school and hospital routes. Primary routes have been established so most residents are within three blocks of a primary route with 90% of residents within two blocks.
Public Works staff will continue to proactively monitor forecasts and to respond in a timely and efficient manner to threats of inclement weather with the goal of providing for the safety and well-being of the City’s citizens and visitors.
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