Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird joined City officials Friday morning to update residents on the winter storm that is producing drifting snow, high winds and subzero wind chills.
Plow crews continue to plow arterial streets and are scheduled to continue clearing residential streets for the next 24 hours. “As the winter storm gained strength, so too did our City’s response,” Gaylor Baird says.
She says 165 snow fighters worked overnight to clear Lincoln’s arterial streets and started residential plowing at 8 a.m. A Snow Emergency continues for the City of Lincoln and there are two parking bans are in effect:
- A residential parking ban means that parking is banned only on the even numbered side of residential streets during 2024. Residents should move their vehicles off of the streets or to the side of the streets with odd-numbered addresses. This will assist snowplow crews in clearing neighborhood streets faster and more efficiently. A residential parking ban applies to streets that are not emergency snow routes, arterials or bus routes or included in a snow removal district.
- A snow emergency parking ban means parking is banned on both sides of emergency snow routes, arterial streets, school and bus routes. Maps of these routes are available at lincoln.ne.gov/snow under the “Parking Bans & Ordinances” tab. Please plan for alternate parking to allow crews room to clear the way safely and efficiently. Residents may monitor plowing progress via the snowplow tracker at lincoln.ne.gov/snow.