So I don’t understand snow removal strategy. The plows go out and kill themselves for 3 days straight to get the main thoroughfares open, which is a monumental task and they do a good job. Then….
That’s it, the road departments just stop working on anything else. There’s a ton of roads that need work in our county but they haven’t been touched since Tuesday. We haven’t had school all week and I doubt we will on Monday either.
Why spend all that time and money and not complete the job?
I've read that there are 3000 miles of road in Fayette county. I also saw where they were running 12 hour shifts 24 hours a day to get it to the current, fairly pathetic, state. It's just not possible to plan, hire and keep employed, and run that kind of staff for a town that doesn't often get this kind of weather. It's not realistic.
Having 3-4 straight years of dire predictions for winter weather led to complacency, even in the midst of political propaganda about how "we won't be caught unprepared next time." They didn't order enough salt, nor put it down early enough, not to mention they're NOT using the best kind of ice melt. They have gone cheap for decades and the people have paid for it with lost revenue and work product for that entire time.
They didn't plow turn lanes.
They dont have any clue HOW to plow roads.
There's no excuse for Nicholasville road, ManOWar, and NewCircle not to be perfectly clear within 24 hours of the precipitation ending.
There are NO medians on Nicholasville Rd.
You send four plows side by side down Nicholasville Rd with 1-2 other perhaps smaller plows to follow and clear the turn lanes and intersections
2 plows and and at worst a smaller plow to do the same on NC and MOW.
Even doing THAT correctly and efficiently, if they don't get the right treatment on the roads early, it's a disaster in the making. There's no way to fix it if you don't do it right in the first place.
I think that's what we're looking at in Lexington.
