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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/01/in-va-crews-work-to-make-neighborhood-streets-passable-instead-of-clear/

The standard for side streets is that an emergency vehicle can get through, not clear to pavement. [/quote]

Thank you for posting this. So many people are screaming about their streets "not being plowed," but they mostly certainly have been plowed... once or twice on Mon or Tues, leaving behind a layer of packed snow and ice that kept refreezing. That's what always happens on lightly traveled subdivision roads with unusually cold Jan temps. [/quote]

Yes, this! The roads have been plowed but VDOT never promised to plow to bare asphalt. Maybe that’s not good enough but that’s what the current rule is. The truth is we usually warm up and it melts in a day or two. It’s not that VDOT did better in the past.[/quote]

VDOT has been out plowing, sanding and salting our neighborhood streets quite a lot today. I was really surprised at the last pass just a bit ago because at this point it just seems wasteful.[/quote]

The trucks in our area only sanded/salted on areas that were icy, ie the side that had not been plowed, and the plows only plowed the side that had not been plowed if there were no cars. They seemed to be focus on the curb areas at intersections where there were piles.

There were still residential roads completely untouched until this weekend.  This wasn't wasteful, having treatment applied to the roads does make a difference when slush freezes over.  [/quote]

The roads I’m referencing were fine. I understand others aren’t. I’ve seen them, but in our case the repeated sanding and salting of dry blacktop was wasteful. [/quote][/quote]

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