Snow Clearing To Continue Through The Weekend
Prince George, B.C. – The City of Prince George is proceeding with its snow clearing plans for this weekend.
City Hall says measurements at the Waste Treatment Plant indicate we’ve received nearly 25 centimetres of snow since Monday, including roughly four centimetres of precipitation today. So the plan is to continue clearing the green zone with graders and loaders with the goal of completing that area by the end of the day. Personnel will also be working overtime tonight and this weekend in ten hour shifts to reach as many parts of the city as possible.
Areas scheduled for clearing and grading this evening and overnight include:
Commercial areas east and west of Central.
Abhau, Willow, Vine, Ross, and McBride.
The remainder of the Carter Light Industrial District.
An overtime shift will work on Saturday to finish any red zone areas not completed prior to garbage collection, and then the green zone will be finished before city crews start into the orange zone.
All activities and priorities are weather dependent. Up to nine centimetres of snow could fall in areas of Prince George through the end of the weekend.
Comments
What do you mean green zone??????? Don’t you mean Sherri Green Zone???
Hardly. We live near her, and we are always the last to be plowed.
RED…GREEN…ORANGE….sure sucks to be in the yellow zone. I have spare fingers on one hand counting the snow clearing on my street this season! They keep starting over long before they ever see yellow….
RED- GREEN – ORAN…NO LET;S GO BACK TO RED – NO GREEN – OR MAYBE RED….
Maybe the guy that call the shots is visually challenged and the garbage schedule is not offered in braille.
People do realize that the coloured zones refer to garbage pickup and not snowplows, right?
JB, I believe the comments are in reference to the supposed city policy of snow plowing a zone a day ahead of the scheduled garbage pick up.
But you could be right, hundreds can’t seem to figure out their garbage schedule. I noticed a lot of garbage cans today that had been plowed around.
it could be a lot worse, the more we whine the more the tax’s to pacify. Lower the tax’s or you don’t get my vote.
You mean that they have two different zone systems. If the plowing zones are different than the garbage zones then they should use colours for one and numbers for the other. Too bloody confusing otherwise.
When all zones cannot be finished before the next major snowfall of 2 metres, they should go back to clear the route based plowing priorities first, then start where they left off with the residential zones.
Does anyone have the faintest clue how the system actually works when mother nature complies, drop 13cm or more of snow … and then stops snowing for two weeks to give the City time to clear the routes, pick up the windrows, and go over the streets a second time just to make sure they go every last snowflake … and have a rest and sharpen the blades, kick the tires, pat the hood and whatever else has to be done during off time.
We could lower the taxes to zero …. just shut the City down and the RDFFG or Victoria will have to come in to do it.
A caretaker government. Something we do not have right now. People in power right now do not understand what a care taker government is. The key words are “take care” of the place.
“hundreds can’t seem to figure out their garbage schedule”
Hundreds is very conservative. If one ever drives through their neighbourhood after holidays, especially Christmas/new years, one can count dozens of containers on the road just within a couple of local streets.
In Whatcom County in Northwestern Washington State, the garbage pickup is the same day every week, including holidays.
Simple system for simple people….. LOL
Including 4th of July and Christmas Day?
(((JB, I believe the comments are in reference to the supposed city policy of snow plowing a zone a day ahead of the scheduled garbage pick up.
But you could be right, hundreds can’t seem to figure out their garbage schedule. I noticed a lot of garbage cans today that had been plowed around.))
That’s why they don’t plow our road. We don’t have garbage pick up. 😳
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