Massachusetts’ highway crews have been preparing for the storm headed to the Boston area and the rest of southern New England Sunday night, but the timing should minimize impacts for most people, according to the official in charge of the effort.
“We are ready for this and, honestly, the timing of this particular storm could not be better,” Jonathan Gulliver, the highway administrator for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, told NBC10 Boston Sunday morning.
That’s because the storm, set to bring 4-8 inches of snow to most parts of Massachusetts, and more in places, will blow through relatively quickly Sunday night into Monday morning, and Monday is a holiday, so fewer people are expected to be on the roads.
“For the first big storm of the season, for the first big storm we’ve had in some time, really hard to complain about this one coming in the way it is,” Gulliver said…