DENVER - It seems like a dance. Denver Public Works clears the snow out of a street's driving lane and Denver Public Schools clears the snow off a sidewalk next to a school. That sends all of the snow into the parking lane, which has created other problems.
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"We had cars trying to get around the buses - cars going the other direction," Becky Voth, a parent, said.
Voth's daughter goes to kindergarten at Bradley International School near Interstate 25 and Yale Avenue. Next to the school, lots of snow is piled in the place where cars usually park, and that has made Voth frustrated.
"It seems like they should at least be able to push it to one area so it's a little safer for everyone," she said.
Voth says on Tuesday morning, the snow piles were close to 3-feet high and it was all piled up in the parking and bus stop areas around the school.
"The kids were having to plow a trail in through the pile of the snow to get to the sidewalk, and the buses were so far out in the street. We just had a chaos of cars trying to drop their kids off. It's just dangerous. Kids crossing the street or in-between the buses," she said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Denver Public Works and DPS plows were at the school, trying to clear the area the best they could.
"In most areas, we plow the street. Unfortunately [the snow] has to go somewhere," Denver Public Works spokesperson Christine Downs said.
Downs says they can't make everyone happy.
"We find that we don't want it in the streets because we want people to drive, [and] sidewalks [is where people] walk, so we find around schools, it's the best place to put it in the parking lane," she said. "It's a delicate balance."
Voth says even now that plows have scattered around the piles at Bradley International, it's still going to cause problems.
"I'm sure there are going to be a mess of cars getting stuck," she said.
She wonders what it's going to take to get crews out here faster next time and hopes something changes when the snow falls again.
"Maybe this will push the county to help us out a little more. Just clear the streets around the school - that's all they need to do," Voth said.
One parent asked why the city cannot truck the snow out of school zones, since it has done that before. Denver Public Works says it only did that once back in 2006 when there were back-to-back blizzards. The reason then was because there was so much snow and it stuck around for so long. In this case, Denver Public Works says it does not have resources for that.
The school did not return 9NEWS' phone calls for comment.
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