NYC Emergency Management issued a hazardous travel advisory for Sunday and Monday as the region is expected to be in for the lowest multi-day temperatures it has experienced in eight years, city officials said in a statement.
Mayor Mamdani vowed to have plowing and street salting operations ongoing throughout the extreme weather episode, he said in the statement.
In New Jersey, the state Department of Transportation issued an emergency order that temporarily lowers posted speed limits to 35 mph on interstate and state highways starting Sunday, the department said in a statement.
The slower speeds join restrictions on big-rigs for some roadways Sunday, the department said. Officials hope the moves will prevent collisions and other calamaties during the weather, but they also say drivers should simply stay off the road or get off when things get dangerous.
Thousands of New York City trash-collection trucks have been outfitted with snow plows and will soon crisscross the city to clear streets, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
This weekend, “each 12-hour shift will be staffed by more than 2,000 sanitation workers,” Mamdani said in a video posted on X today. “And once there’s more than 2 inches of snow on the ground, plows will roll out across more than 19,000 lane miles of roadways and bikeways.”
When the snow starts in New York tomorrow morning, observers can track the plowing vehicles on PlowNYC.
In a news release, the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) said it applied brine to city streets beginning yesterday and that it has 700 million pounds of salt on hand to help melt snow.
New Jersey Transit will suspend commuter rail, light rail, bus and Access Link services starting tomorrow because of the impending weather.
Light rail, bus and Access Link suspensions will begin at 4 a.m. tomorrow, the agency said in a news release. Commuter rail suspensions start at 2 p.m.
Access Link provides transportation services to people with disabilities.
"We will provide updates on Monday service on Sunday as we assess the impacts of the storm throughout the state," Gov. Mikie Sherrill said on X.
