Please limit travel today as CBJ Streets & Fleets makes exhaustive effort to clear roads

As of today, January 24, snowfall in Juneau has broken and temperatures are warming. Streets are filled with slush and ice, in addition to significant amounts of snow remaining in many areas.

Please continue to avoid unnecessary travel as much as possible, both to ensure your own and others’ safety and to allow the CBJ Streets crew to move large equipment like plows and graders through narrow streets.

Like many others in the community, CBJ is grateful for this break in the weather, which will give crews an opportunity to clear the remaining streets and move snow away from roads and sidewalks.

Over the last eleven days, CBJ Streets & Fleets Maintenance and Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities have gone above and beyond to keep streets clear, despite near-record amounts of snow in short periods of time. In addition to working around the clock to clear and re-clear streets, they have mobilized contractors, worked to source additional equipment, and put every member of the division with a commercial driver’s license behind the wheel. Other teams, including Capital Transit, Parks Maintenance, Landscape Maintenance, Docks & Harbors, private contractors and good neighbors, have also put in exhaustive hours keeping sidewalks, pathways, parking lots, docks, and other public spaces clear.

After this lengthy and sustained snowfall, your patience and understanding as the community works to get unburied is deeply appreciated.

CBJ offices and facilities are closed to in-person business today, but open via phone and email. For more information about snow removal, visit CBJ Winter Maintenance Information. For guidance about drain and hydrant clearance, roof snow loads, and other important information, visit the CBJ Newsroom.