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Winter Driving Safety Tips
- Slow down for wet, snowy, icy conditions.
- Avoid quick braking or acceleration.
- Find out about driving conditions before you go.
- Every time you travel - Buckle Up.
- Turn signals, brake lights and windows need to be clear of snow.
- You should never use cruise control in winter weather conditions.
Plowing Priorities
MoDOT uses a priority system of routes to determine which roadways are first and get traffic moving as quickly as possible. The following are priority levels for snow and ice-removal:
- Priority 1: Highest traffic-volume roadways are cleared first, including interstates and other major routes. These roads receive continuous treatment throughout a storm.
- Priority 2: Lower-volume, lettered or numbered routes are opened to two-way traffic and treated with salt at critical areas such as intersections, hills and curves.
After the storm during regular work hours, workers clean up accumulation on shoulders, bridge edges and interchanges.
Annually MoDOT spends approximately $41 million on snow and ice removal. Last year, approximately 3,000 employees spent more than 465,639 hours using the 1,650 snow-removal vehicles.
How to Keep Your Driveway Clear
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MoDOT's top priority in a snowstorm is to clear driving surfaces as soon as possible, which may require several trips down the same route. After the snow has stopped falling and the pavement is clear, crews return to widen the cleared areas and clean the shoulders.
Snow plowed from roads could end up blocking private driveways for some time. MoDOT recognizes the inconvenience this causes, but because of limited time and resources, plows can only clear private driveways at the request of local emergency officials.
To reduce the amount of snow that might block your driveway, shovel an open area along the shoulder at the entrance (see illustration below). Plow blades will then push snow into the area just before your driveway, leaving a much smaller amount in front of it. |
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