The city’s snow removal operations on streets in the hardest hit areas of the city – parts of South Buffalo, Kaisertown and Old First Ward – focused on Kaisertown on Thursday night, according to the commissioner of the city’s Department of Public Works.
Crews cleared about a dozen streets in Kaisertown, including “a handful south of Clinton and a handful north of Clinton,” Commissioner Nathan Marton told The Buffalo News on Friday.
Workers had to tow about 150 cars from those streets to make way for the snow plows, and then towed them back, Marton said.
The alternate-side parking regulations on those streets, combined with the winter storm, had cars parked on both sides of the streets that caused “us issues in terms of access,” Marton said.
Crews have been removing snow all over the city since Sunday and the process is still proceeding.
Beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday, the city announced it was starting a coordinated effort to clear the streets in those hardest hit areas of the city – Kaisertown, South Buffalo and the Old First Ward.
It was a combined effort between DPW, the Buffalo Police Department and parking enforcement to do a street-by-street removal of snow that extended into the overnight hours. The police department was tasked with traffic control and blocking access to streets where snow-removal activities are taking place. Parking enforcement conducted the mini-tows of vehicles from snow-clogged streets.
“Everything below the southern part of the city that was hit the hardest,” Marton said.
“We are continuing snow removal all over,” he said.
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