Will your neighborhood streets be treated for winter storm? Here is Fort Worth’s plan
Fort Worth residents may have a hard time driving out of their neighborhoods this week after a winter storm drops an expected 1 to 4 inches of snow between late Jan. 8 and early Jan. 10.
While the safety and well-being of all motorists is a high priority for the city, neighborhood streets will not be sanded, Lara Ingram, a spokesperson for the Transportation and Public Works Department, wrote in an email to the Star-Telegram.
Instead, the city will focus its efforts on deploying a sand and salt mixture to bridges, hospital entrances, major thoroughfares, and hills that get a lot of traffic from emergency response vehicles, she said.
Fort Worth will begin treating some these streets between Jan. 6 and Jan. 8, and will have 30 trucks working 12-hour shifts starting Jan. 9, Ingram said.
The city has 4,000 tons of sand and salt stocked up, and usually goes through about 2,500 tons in a typical winter, Ingram said.
The Transportation and Public Works Department is monitoring the situation in coordination with the city’s Office of Emergency Management. The minute the ground gets cold enough for any rain or snow to stick, the city trucks are placed on standby, Ingram said.
This story was originally published January 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM.
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