ABILENE, TX– The Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) teams of workers are working overnight and keeping the roads safe as potentially dangerous ice and sleet continue to fall.
“It’s best to avoid the road right now,” says spokesperson Tanya Brown.
The heavily trafficked parts already had their number of crashes due to the worsening winter conditions.
“I-20 mainly was seeing crashes and delays,” said Brown.
Among the equipment the TxDOT workers will be using are snowplows. She advises drivers that encounter with the plows to only pass in the left lane, as passing on the right could interfere with the plows’ efforts to clear the roadway.
They also advise drivers to drive careful and slow, and to give workers a lot of space on the roads.
“We don’t want people crowding them. We have a saying here at TXDOT: Don’t crowd the plow,” says Brown.
