Fairfax County officials are exploring whether to take ownership of the area’s roads, following a week in which they waited on the Virginia Department of Transportation to clear the streets — days after snow stopped, in some cases.

Unlike neighboring Arlington County and the city of Fairfax, the county doesn’t maintain its roadways, instead relying on VDOT for everything from clearing mountains of snow to cutting grass on medians. The county’s transportation department has initiated a study to determine the practicality of assuming some or all of the roads in the 395 square miles of county land.