Cars buried in snow, more than 74 vehicles towed in 24 hours
Milwaukee parking enforcement wrote 2,200 parking citations, and the Department of Public Works towed 74 vehicles in the previous 24 hours.The snow and ice elimination course of is way from over.“We’ve been active since Saturday, 24 hours a day,” said Milwaukee DPW’s Brian DeNeve. “We will continue to be working the overnight hours tonight addressing corners throughout the city of Milwaukee and clearing areas of the streets we have not been able to address. That’s going to be happening through the overnight hours into tomorrow until the work is done.” Several vehicles close to Wells and 18th road are nonetheless snowed in as of Friday night. The vehicles are lined in snow and tickets, together with notices of intent to tow.”It is very logistically difficult if there’s a large amount of snow, that was the case with the first massive dump of snow,” DeNeve defined. “Just accessing those cars was simply not feasible.” Tow truck drivers tell 12 News they’ve been busy since the back-to-back snowstorms.“A lot of people getting stuck in alleys, people getting plowed in,” says tow truck operator Daniel Johnson. “Start shoveling your self out, it makes it lots simpler for tow truck drivers to get to you.”DeNeve says it is tough for plows to correctly clear the roads when vehicles are nonetheless parked and snowbound. There is not any snow emergency issued Friday evening. DPW crews will proceed the snow and ice elimination course of all through the weekend.
Milwaukee parking enforcement wrote 2,200 parking citations, and the Department of Public Works towed 74 vehicles in the previous 24 hours.
The snow and ice elimination course of is way from over.
“We’ve been active since Saturday, 24 hours a day,” said Milwaukee DPW’s Brian DeNeve. “We will continue to be working the overnight hours tonight addressing corners throughout the city of Milwaukee and clearing areas of the streets we have not been able to address. That’s going to be happening through the overnight hours into tomorrow until the work is done.”
Several vehicles close to Wells and 18th road are nonetheless snowed in as of Friday night. The vehicles are lined in snow and tickets, together with notices of intent to tow.
“It is very logistically difficult if there’s a large amount of snow, that was the case with the first massive dump of snow,” DeNeve defined. “Just accessing those cars was simply not feasible.”
Tow truck drivers tell 12 News they’ve been busy since the back-to-back snowstorms.
“A lot of people getting stuck in alleys, people getting plowed in,” says tow truck operator Daniel Johnson. “Start shoveling your self out, it makes it lots simpler for tow truck drivers to get to you.”
DeNeve says it is tough for plows to correctly clear the roads when vehicles are nonetheless parked and snowbound.
There is not any snow emergency issued Friday evening. DPW crews will proceed the snow and ice elimination course of all through the weekend.
