CLEVELAND (WJW) – As another winter storm arrives in Northeast Ohio, road crews with the Ohio Department of Transportation are on-duty around the clock.
“We will have 250 crews out in Northeast Ohio,” said Brent Kovacs, with ODOT District 12.
Crews are working 12 hour shifts into the weekend, and with widespread snow expected all across Northeast Ohio, ODOT is spreading their crews out so they can keep up.
“We expect the snow to hit evenly. We aren’t planning on shifting any crews. It’s going to be all hands on deck with crews on their normal routes,” said Kovacs.
ODOT has certainly been busy.
Last year, they used about 27,000 tons of salt for the winter season.
This year, ODOT has almost doubled that already at 41,000 tons of salt. And it’s only January.
Meanwhile, ODOT is reminding drivers to slow down while snowplows are clearing roads.