Private contractors will begin clearing 1,884 miles of residential streets in the city of Detroit at midnight, giving them 24 hours to plow a 16-foot-wide path through each of the city’s seven council districts.
City crews are already working 12-hour shifts to salt and plow 673 miles of major roads.
In a release, DPW Director Ron Brundidge is asking residents to move their cars off the streets before midnight to give plows room to work and prevent vehicles from getting blocked in by snow.
Detroit’s snow removal policy kicks in automatically when more than six inches of snow falls, triggering the deployment of contractors across all districts…