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Officials give winter safety tips
for Lincoln shovelers, drivers
The City of Lincoln suggests the following
tips for winter storm safety:
Lincoln has a law requiring sidewalks to
be scooped full width by 9 a.m. following a
storm. If your walk includes a wheelchair
ramp, be sure to scoop that out, too. The city
can clear unscooped walks and assess the
cost to the property.
For safety's sake, stay well behind sand
era and snow plows, giving them plenty of
room to operate.
Don't become over-confident after a
sander has covered a street. The street still
may be slippery, especially at intersections.
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It takes about three to nine times as far to
stop a vehicle on ice or snow-packed streets
as it does on-dry pavement. Adjust your fol
lowing distance accordingly.
Limit driving during severe weather. If
you must drive, plan how you will reach your
destination. Snow routes are plowed first, so
traveling on other artenals and bus routes
could be difficult. Snow routes are marked
with special signs. Once these routes are
cleared, other major streets and bus routes
are plowed.
Listen to the news for updates on snow
removal operations. The time each parking
ban will start is announced in advance.
Snow removal is delightfu
when weather is frightful
By Colleen Kenney
SUiTEeporter
During last summer's heat, the Lincoln
Public Works Department and the UNL
grounds department began preparing for
this winter's snow and ice.
As of Nov. 1, Lincoln was ready, said Darrell
Derby, manager of Lincoln's snow removal.
"We're prepared to handle a major storm
right now," Derby said.
WTien the snow began, the work began. The
first priority is to clear Lincoln's emergency
snow routes. Lincoln clears all approaches
around the UNL campus except R Street.
Lincoln's snow removal system has served as
a model for other cities because cf its
efficiency, said Derby. The department has a
budget of less than $1 million a year,
substantially lower than comparable cities, he
said.
Despite a low budget, the department has
new equipment. The department will use a
newly installed IBM computer for scheduling.
"It becomes a very massive job to keep 160
to 175 pieces of machinery moving," he said.
"This will help us tremendously in organizing
the routes."
ther new city equipment includes two
trucks, 1 1 snow plows, two snow
spreaders and one front-end loader, all
at a cost of about $158,800. These join old
equipment, such as 60 snow plows, 20 sand
and salt spreaders, nine motor graders and
four heavy-duty snowblowers.
Lincoln's snow removal operation employs
about 400 people, officially. Still, the Public
Works Department relies on contractual
support from farmers and construction
companies for extra workers and machinery.
UNL snow removal is on a smaller scale.
About 42 full-time employees help clear
snow. The department also relies on part-time
student employees.
Bud Dasenbrock, director of the grounds
department, said the employees usually clear
UNL's 20 miles of sidewalks and 72 acres of
parking lots in about four hours.
"It wears real fast on people," Dasenbrock
said.
And unlike the Lincoln operation, the UNL
department has "definite limitations" from a
smaller budget and fewer resources,
Dasenbrock said.
"We gear the best we can with the
equipment and people that we work with," he
said.
The department clears the campus in four
stages:
The area around UNL's power plant.
Streets, lots and loading dock driveways
for essential services.
Administration parking lots.
Large parking lots for employees and
commuters.
Small parking lots for employees and
commuters.
Residence hall and student parking lots.
Parking lots are hard to clear because of
"working around the cars in the tight areas,"
Dasenbrock said. Although it is uncommon,'
sometimes machinery slips and damages a '
parked car.
Drivers themselves can help avoid this.
"We need cooperation from the students to
move their cars before we clear their lots," he
said. "Or it can really be a mess."
The Daily Nebraskan prints such a notice a
few days in advance.
UNL students returned to Lincoln after
Thanksgiving 1983 and a severe snow storm, to
find many student parking lots inacessible.
Dasenbrock remembers the havoc it caused.
Not enough parking lots had been cleared,
causing UNL Chancellor Martin Massengale to
call a "Parking Emergency," which allowed
students to park anywhere they could.
Usually the parking lots and sidewalks are
cleared before the traffic begins, but such an
emergency is possible when the snowstorm is
continuous and severe in accumulation, he
said.
To help alleviate parking problems in
Lincoln, two ordinances on snow removal
policies and procedures have been passed
by the Lincoln City Council this year.
According to Derby, one ordinance requires an
increase in fines for drivers who violate the
snow emergency parking bans. The fine for
parking on arterial, bus or emergency parking
routes previously was $25 and now will be $35.
The fine for parking on residential streets goes
from $10 to $20.
The second ordinance will affect mainly
residential streets. This ordinance gives the
mayor authority to apply a ban on street
parking in low-density residential areas during
a snow emergency. High-density areas, which
include the UNL campus, University Place,
Havelock and College View, will continue with
an alternate parking plan, allowing parking on
one side of the street one day and on the other
side the next day.
During a snow emergency, the following
Emergency Snow Routes receive first priority
for snow removal: O, Holdrege, 9th, 10th, 16th
and 17th Streets.
Arterial routes not included in the
Emergency Snow Routes receive second
priority for clearing. Third is Lincoln
Transportation System bus routes. Last is
residential streets where the new parking bans
will go into effect.
Derby, who also is snow removal operations
manager, said the ordinances probably won't
affect UNL's on-campus students. However,
they might affect those students who live off
campus in residential areas.
Anyone who has questions about the
parking regulations can call 471-7644 from 7:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. for information During
snowstorms this number will be staffed 24
hours each day.
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