INDIANAPOLIS — Monday, the City-County Council is introducing a proposal that could change the way the City of Indianapolis plows streets following a snowstorm.
“I would just like the road to be plowed once during the snowstorm. I know they are busy on the interstates, but this is way after the interstates were clear, the surrounding areas were clear, but nobody ever came through here,” Bret Boruff said.
The city says the proposal comes after last month, where residents dealt withunplowed streetswhich disrupted daily life and even prevented trash collection for weeks. The goal the city says is to have a better plan in place for clearing residential streets in future storms.
“People pay taxes for a reason and when you don’t receive services for your tax dollars, no wonder why people are leaving our city,” Councilor Joshua Bain told WRTV.
Councilor Jared Evans tells WRTV that the goal is to improve coordination, allocate resources more effectively, and enhance communication so that all neighborhoods remain accessible and essential services continue without disruption.
“I would like to see us go back to some sort of 6-inch model, but we are going to lower that threshold,” Councilor Bain added.
City-County Councilors tell WRTV that the full proposal is still being worked on.
The digest of the proposal is below:
- Set residential street plowing at 4 inches of snow
- Give DPW 60 days or some amount of time to present a new policy that will incorporate that threshold or lower.
- The new policy is to be approved by the Board of Public Works and presented to the DPW committee
- A financial statement/presentation from DPW/OFM on how this will impact the department budget
- A priority network of bike infrastructure is to be published and included in the Indy Snow Force viewer for real-time tracking
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