The city is updating its snow plow tracker website to improve its reliability. Additional weather stations are being installed to monitor road conditions. The city's road condition monitoring system is being expanded with more stations.
What we know
- City officials have contracted a new company called ETCH to administer the snow plow tracker.
- The city's snow plow tracker website is being revamped with upgraded GPS technology to improve its reliability.
- Ten more roadway weather stations are being added to the existing network to monitor pavement temperatures and road conditions.
- The city's Department of Public Services will use data from the weather stations to make decisions on deploying resources during inclement weather.
- The snow plow tracker has been available to the public since 2016, but previously did not track plow activity in real time.
Read the full story from WVXU.
