The Brief
- Crews are continuing snow removal across Milwaukee, prioritizing main roads while racing to clear side streets.
- DPW officials say about 150 workers are handling nearly 7,000 miles of roadway, a process that can take up to 48 hours.
- Garbage and recycling pickup is suspended Monday as sanitation crews assist with snow operations.
MILWAUKEE – Cleanup crews are racing across southeast Wisconsin after a daylong snowstorm blanketed homes, driveways and sidewalks, with residents wasting little time digging out once the flakes stopped falling.
Main roads cleared first, side streets fall behind
What we know:
On Milwaukee’s south side, the contrast became clearer by the hour. At Morgan Avenue and Kansas Avenue — about eight hours after snow stopped falling — busy roads like Morgan were largely cleared, while side streets continued to lag behind.
That included Kansas Avenue, where the Milwaukee Department of Public Works was still working through heavy piles of snow mixed with leaves that had already been set out for pickup and now blocked portions of the roadway on Sunday afternoon.
DPW officials said about 150 workers were deployed to clear the city’s roughly 7,000 miles of roadways, a process that typically takes 24 to 48 hours.
Trash, recycling on hold
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