New City of Columbus WarriorWatch Website For Residents Will Show What Streets Have Been Plowed This Winter
The Department of Public Service today rolled out its new
Columbus WarriorWatch website that will allow residents to go online this
winter to see what streets the City’s Snow Warriors have treated and
plowed. The Columbus WarriorWatch website is available online at warriorwatch.columbus.gov.
The website can be used on a home PC, laptop or cellular phone.
Residents will be able to use the WarriorWatch website to
check what City of Columbus streets have been treated and plowed within the
previous 72 hours. WarriorWatch users will see a map of Columbus and
streets with the following color-coding:
- Dark green: Streets treated within the
past six hours
- Light green: Streets treated within the
past 12 hours
- Dark purple: Streets treated within the
past 24 hours
- Light purple: Streets treated within the
past 72 hours
- Tan: Streets yet to be treated or is
beyond the 72 hour time frame
In addition, WarriorWatch users can zoom in and click on a
specific street to open an information box that shows the date and time the
street was treated within the previous 72 hours.
WarriorWatch website users will also be able to click on
their street or any street on the map to learn the priority level of the
street, and whether the responsibility to treat the street is the City of
Columbus or the street is a private street or suburban street treated by non-City
of Columbus trucks.
For the purpose of plowing and treating during the winter,
streets are broken down into the categories of Priority 1, Priority 2 and
Priority 3. Each priority level is assigned a specific color—yellow, pink
or blue—on the WarriorWatch website:
- Priority 1 (Yellow): Priority
1 streets are arterial streets with the highest traffic volumes and
speed limits. Examples of Priority 1 streets include High Street, Broad
Street, Morse Road, Livingston Avenue, Parsons Avenue, Sullivant Avenue,
Whittier Street and Sawmill Road.
- Priority 2 (Pink): Priority 2 streets are
collector streets with lower traffic volumes. These streets connect
arterial streets with residential streets. Examples of Priority 2
streets include Argyle Drive, Blenheim Road, Binns Boulevard, Buttles Avenue,
Dunedin Road, Eastmoor Boulevard, Skywae Drive, Summit Row Boulevard and East
Woodrow Avenue.
- Priority 3 (Blue): Priority 3 streets are
residential streets, which have the lowest traffic volumes and lowest speed
limits. Examples of Priority 3 streets include Duxberry Avenue,
Garden Road, Franklin Avenue, Kossuth Street, Laramie Drive, Parkside Road,
Scottsdale, Avenue, Welch Avenue and Wetmore Road.
An information crawl at the top of the screen will include
updates on how many City of Columbus trucks are currently plowing and treating
Columbus streets and what priority level of streets the trucks are working.
The Columbus WarriorWatch website will function during snow
storms and for 72 hours after snow stops falling. WarriorWatch data
will be updated once every 15 minutes during the times it is operational.
The Columbus WarriorWatch website works most effectively on
computers that have modern desktop browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox,
Safari and Internet Explorer version 10 or higher.