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Dallas details road-treatment, plow and sanitation plans; some residential streets will not be pretreated
Summary
Transportation and Public Works said crews will prioritize main thoroughfares and bridges, with eight snow plows ready and the capacity to produce about 20,000 gallons of brine per day; sanitation collection may continue but manual routes could face delays.
City transportation and sanitation officials described how they will prioritize road treatment, traffic-signal repairs and solid-waste collection during the approaching winter weather.
Tina Richardson of Transportation and Public Works said crews began brine operations yesterday on bridges, overpasses and hot spots and will continue pretreatment into tomorrow. "We actually have 8 snow plows that are ready to go and we have the ability to make 20,000 gallons of brine each day," Richardson said, adding the city made roughly 12,000 gallons yesterday and expects to produce about 12,000 gallons tomorrow.
Gus Concarley said transportation operations will prioritize major thoroughfares, dark-bus routes, and access to critical facilities and will use technicians to respond to traffic-signal outages, prioritizing signals that affect emergency access. "We are focused on the major thoroughfares... and will be sending operation that is going on on the main thoroughfares and dark bus routes and priority roadways," Concarley said.
Cliff Gillespie, director of Sanitation, said crews will implement the winter weather operations plan, and supervisors will assess roads early each morning to determine whether solid-waste and recycling collection can proceed safely. "Customers on Thursday routes should assume that their garbage and recycling collections will occur as scheduled unless we announce otherwise," Gillespie said, but warned that routes needing manual labor could experience delays or postponements.
Officials clarified that the city does not normally pre-treat residential streets, focusing resources on thoroughfares and bridges; they said they will sand local streets when necessary to enable emergency vehicles to reach specific locations at the request of fire or police.
The Department of Aviation added airport-specific resources and advised travelers to arrive two hours early for scheduled departures and to follow airport advisories for the Cotton Bowl weekend.
