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Show UDOT doesn't want your snow Private citizens who own property along state highways in Utah are unknowingly breaking the law when they plow snow from their own driveways and parking lots and push it onto state highways. The Utah Department of Transportation Tran-sportation has been issuing encroachment en-croachment notices to violators which results in a fine each day until the situation is corrected. People often clear their own driveways and parking lots of snow and then push the snow out onto state roads or even onto the islands in the roads in the belief that crews from UDOT will remove it. However, UDOT snowplows simply push snow off the highway and oftentimes the snow ends up back in the driveway when the trucks go by. Property owners, particularly those with parking lots such as apartment complexes and shopping centers, should find a place on their own property to push the snow. Aside from adding to UDOT's considerable burden of snow removal, putting snow from privately owned driveways and parking lots onto state highways and islands also creates a dangerous road condition. The extra snow makes the highway that much more slick and unsafe for travel. The snow placed in the islands is packed, which takes it longer to melt. As it does melt the water continually runs across the highway, high-way, creating icy spots. |