When it snows in Nashville, these streets get cleared first

Significant snow is coming to Middle Tennessee on Friday, with the possibility of 4 to 6 inches of accumulation throughout the day. The National Weather Service is warning that there could be travel impacts throughout the weekend, with slow melting and event refreezing in the overnight hours.

Streets are likely to be snow-covered and icy for several days.

Metro Nashville has listed 1,800 miles of roadway that are considered “snow removal priority routes.” You can find those routes here.

Interactive: Metro’s map of snow removal priorities by street

Once the primary and secondary routes are cleared, the city will move to post-secondary routes instead of customer requests this year.

“Reports can still be made to hubNashville and will be used for data gathering and evaluation to inform response during future winter weather events,” Metro said in a statement earlier this month. Metro is making use of 40 snow plows this season.

The Nashville Department of Transportation is now pre-treating primary and secondary roads ahead of the storm, and the department says that post-secondary roads have already been treated. Once the snow begins on Friday, crews will work in 12-hour shifts to clear roads.

“We encourage everyone to give our crews plenty of room to work, to stay off roads if possible, and if you must travel during the snow, drive slowly and cautiously,” NDOT director Diana Alarcon said in a statement.

Don’t despair if your street isn’t highlighted on this map. Some streets in Nashville are the purview of the state of Tennessee, meaning that it falls to the state to clear parts of Davidson County.

Across the state, the Tennessee Department of Transportation began putting brine on major roadways on Wednesday. The agency says its snow removal teams first focus on clearing interstates and heavily traveled state routes — and sometimes must do so repeatedly.

TDOT says its statewide winter weather budget is $28.8 million. TDOT Region 3, which includes Nashville, has crews with 281 salt trucks and 67,370 tons of salt.