From The Executive Office of the Mayor and DDOT:

Greetings,

We wanted to share the following: There is no prioritization or minimum requirement of snow before snow crews will come plow city streets.

Every street is equally important and crews are working very hard to get at least one pass on neighborhood streets throughout the city. For storms that drop 18 inches or more of snow accumulation, it is a standard to clear all major corridors, bridges, and main routes within 36 hours after the storm ends in order to make sure emergency response and city vehicles can traverse the city and within 60 hours for residential streets. We were meeting our goals and in the neighborhoods when we recognized that this next forecasted was a reality. As such, we now have to go back out to the main corridors, bridges, and access routes an maintain them. This storm is forecasted to be similar to the last in that snow will fall very quickly and crews will need to keep up with the accumulations. As soon as the storm passes through and the last snowflake falls crews will work to get the main routes passable and get back into neighborhood streets.

DDOT and DPW want to thank all the residents for their words of encouragement and for letting us know when your streets were not plowed.

Finally, right now we are trying to hit the streets that haven't been plowed for a variety of reasons - too narrow, too steep for light plows, too many parked cars, too much traffic, etc. We are taking reports from residents and adding them to our list and getting to them as fast as we can.

From me: Please continue to be as patient as you have been. Drive safe and stay warm.

Francisco Fimbres
Mayor's Ward 2Liaison, Community Relations and Services
(202) 664-6119 } Francisco.Fimbres@dc.gov