LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For the past week, Louisville Metro's Snow Team has worked to clear the city's major roads, and Mayor Craig Greenberg, D-Louisville, has worked with Jefferson County Public Schools to help clear out side streets as well.
While most of the main roads are clear, ice and snow continue to cover many of the city's side streets.
Robin Harrington, who lives in the Cloverleaf neighborhood in southwest Louisville, said the conditions are anything but safe.
“It has literally been an ice trap going out of the neighborhood,” Harrington said.
Harrington said there have been many incidents of people sliding into ditches and yards
“I run the risk of having an accident and slide into a ditch in my neighborhood ... I think we just need to do a better job because we have an elementary school here," Harrington said. "This is a bus stop, right here. And then just watching how the buses was (sic) going this morning, just hoping nothing would happen."
Greenberg said the city’s Snow Team has covered its 110 snow routes and has cleared more than 100 bus stops.
"My understanding is those were some of the highest density bus stops in the JCPS system, so that is what we cleared," Greenberg said. "We're not, right now, doing additional bus stops."
Greenberg acknowledged there are some streets that need attention.
“There were some roads that probably should be on the snow route," Greenberg said. "That's something that we're already working on this week as we learn from what occurred last week."
Harrington said her street hasn’t been plowed or salted.
“It's been very frustrating; we were told we weren't (prioritized) because it's the secondary streets," she said.
"It's going to refreeze again tonight. And in the morning, we'll be back to square one again, which is another ice trap on this street."
Harrington said because of the conditions of her neighborhood streets, she dreads going in and out of her own home and hopes the city sees the need to support to its side streets.
In a statement sent to Spectrum News 1, the Louisville Mayor's Office said the Snow Team consists of roughly 200 employees, including plow drivers, mechanics and managers. They come from four departments: Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Fleet and Facilities and Codes and Regulation.
"We have 160 total pieces of snow removal equipment, including 60 snowplows," the Mayor's Office added.
Greenberg urged residents to call 311 for areas that need to be addressed.