Emergency snow routes consist of major streets and main routes that facilitate access to public transportation, hospitals, schools, business areas, fire stations, police stations, and other public safety and critical infrastructure locations at times of snow and/or ice events.

The emergency snow routes were last updated in 2020. Proposed updates to the emergency snow routes account for new City streets associated with the I-29/I-480/West Broadway improvements completed by Iowa DOT, and to adjust start/end points of existing routes impacted by the Interstate project.

Other proposed changes include making minor technical corrections to street names and route limits to align with current operations.