Snow Removal Update from Alderman Ross Arnett

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Below is an email we received from Alderman Ross Arnett concerning snow removal.  Please note the streets named as being neglected or insufficiently cleared during winter storm Jonas.  Keep an eye out for repeat situations in future storms.  If there is a problem in this regard, on these or any streets, contact Alderman Ross Arnett.

Ward 8 and Friends

Attached and pasted below is the snow removal status as of noon today (January 25). I have called Warren, Second, Fifth, Burnside, and State Streets as being particularly bad and in need of more plowing. Please let me know if there other streets that I missed. Below is a message from Public Works on the snow removal status.

Ross

City of Annapolis Snow Emergency Status – Noon on January 25, 2016

  • Current staffing is 20 equipment operators, two mechanics, two supervisors and 16 contractor personnel on each 12-hour shift.
  • All snow emergency and connector routes have been cleared; most have wet pavement with limited snow/slush.  Generally, only the travel lanes have been cleared, not the parking spots.  The highest priority currently is to make all streets in the City passable.
  • Clearing of side streets started on Sunday night.  The current focus is on making all side streets, including residential streets, courts and cul-de-sacs, passable.
  • At this time, it is estimated that approximately 80% of the City’s 91 miles of streets are passable.
  • Public Works plans to continue two 12-hours shifts per day through at least Thursday, January 28.
  • Trash and recycling collection on Tuesday, January 26 has been canceled.  The current plan is to collect Monday’s routes on Wednesday, Tuesday’s routes on Thursday, Thursday’s routes on Friday, and Friday’s routes on Saturday.
  • All or sections of the following streets remain to be cleared:

Bunche

Carver

Charles

City Gate

Constitution Square

Creek

Dorsey

Eastern (north end)

Farragut (between Rowe Blvd and Cedar Park)

Glendon

Highland

Holclow

Hunt Meadow courts and cul-de-sacs

Kirby

Lockwood

Morris

Oxford Landing cul-de-sacs

Park

Reidsville

Revel

Shipwright

Short

Southgate (Franklin to the water)

Wells

Windsor

Woodlawn

Worden

Street ends at the water

  • By midnight tonight (January 25), we expect that over 90% of City streets will be passable.  By noon on January 26, we expect that nearly 100% of City streets will be passable.
  • After all streets are passable, the focus will change to clearing street parking areas and widening the travel lanes.

 

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