Kentucky Transportation Cabinet road crews ready and waiting in event snowfall accumulates

Date:

With snow beginning to fall around Kentucky Monday, officials with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said road crews are ready and waiting.

Officials noted that salt and snow plow crews are on duty with active patrolling and pretreatment of scattered roadways underway.

“Clearing our streets and roads of snow and ice is a matter of public safety and an essential public service of our Transportation Cabinet,” said Gov. Andy Beshear.

Officials said more than 2,000 Kentucky Transportation Cabinet employees are available to treat and clear more than 63,000 miles of roads.

To do so, the transportation cabinet has 1,024 truck with front-end blades, four others with tow-plows and 400 contract trucks.

Share
Written by:

Subscribe

Share post:

Popular

More like this
Related

W’burg father arrested after child wanders away from home, syringe reportedly falls out of his shoe

A Williamsburg father was arrested Friday morning after police...

Ottie Rose (Hackler) Davis

Ottie Rose (Hackler) Davis went to be with her...

Lois Elaine Riley Chesnut-Derrick

Lois Elaine Riley Chesnut-Derrick, 80, of Corbin, Kentucky, passed...

Par for the Course

When it comes to golf in Bell County, the...