Indy DPW plow drivers 'ahead of schedule,' uncertain when neighborhoods will be plowed
Jan 07, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS -- Neighborhood streets across Indianapolis are still covered in packed, slick snow after roughly 8 inches of powder fell across the city Sunday night into Monday.
The Indianapolis Department of Public Works has had plow drivers rotating on 12-hour shifts every day since then, with roughly 70 drivers in each shift.
Auboni Hart, a spokesperson with Indy DPW, said drivers are ahead of schedule with their snow removal. Their priorities go from main thoroughfares to connector streets and then to neighborhood roads. Plow drivers are moving to connector streets on Tuesday, when they could get to neighborhood streets is up in the air.
”There is the potential for another weather event to happen this weekend, so we would hate to have to start all over," Hart said.
Hart said they're waiting to make a decision on when to plow neighborhood roads when they have more information on what weather could be on the horizon.
Meanwhile, neighbors are trudging through slick streets and sliding on four wheels.
”The main roads, they are pretty decent, but these little roads it just doesn't seem like they touch them at all," said Herschel Murphy.
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Murphy remodels houses and has three jobs to get to in Indianapolis, but the packed snow had him spinning his tires in a north side neighborhood.
"I'm self-employed, so every minute I'm sitting here stuck I'm just losing money," said Murphy.
Murphy was eventually able to get out of the ruts his wheels made in the snow with some help from a kind neighbor.