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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Snow removal operations and improvements
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Commissioner Lojan highlights improvements in DSNY's snow removal operations and recent winter weather response.
- DSNY has eliminated the old system of primary, secondary, and tertiary streets for snow removal
- Every street is now on a route, and all routes can be dispatched simultaneously for snow operations
- This practice is called 'snow equity'
- In the winter of 2024-2025, DSNY responded to 14 winter weather events with 12.5 inches of accumulating precipitation
- Sanitation workers were on 12-hour shifts for weeks to address these conditions
- The department successfully cleared streets, servicing car lanes and bike lanes simultaneously
Javier Lojan
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And with winter now behind us, I'm proud to say that you weren't forgotten during snow season either.
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If you grew up here, you likely remember the old days of primary, secondary, and tertiary streets.
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That kind of division and service level is over.
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Thanks to the higher headcount and new technology for internal monitoring, every street is on a route and every route can be dispatched at the same time for snow operations as soon as conditions warranted, a practice we call snow equity.
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In the winter of twenty twenty four, twenty five, DSNY responded to 14 winter weather events and observed twelve twelve and a half inches of accumulating precipitation.
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Half of these events were in February alone, and sanitation workers were on twelve hour shift for weeks to address these conditions.
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Thanks to their efforts and the administration the administration's investments, they were able to get the streets open, even servicing car lanes and bike lanes at the same time.
0:24:17
I want to take this moment to thank our sanitation workers for their efforts, for being the heroes with the plow, and for remembering that no matter what anyone says, it absolutely does still snow in New York City.