“clean up will start when the snowfall ends”
This makes no sense. So we have a three day snowfall event. They won’t even start snowclearing until it has ended???
During that time, the snow will accumulate to who knows what depth, there will be a compact build up and intersections will become very icy, hills may become extremely dangerous and bus routes won’t be plowed at all?
I’m not sure if he doesn’t understand the plan or just didn’t word it correctly.
The trucks and graders should be out as soon as it starts snowing and keep with it until it is all done.
As well, the early and late snowfalls can be like Vancouver snow, extremely slippery.
And they won’t do anything until it stops??
Great revision to the plan, I must say.

As far as I am concerned this should of been implemented 7 years ago leaving all the political BS aside road safety should always be a top priority

What’s the difference between Priority 1 and Priority 2? The story reads, “…to be completed within 48 hours of the end of snow event.” for both of them.

Give more you don’t understand, the city is planning for an event that has never happened before, snowfall.

They are also restricting on street parking as they do every year, and every year they plow around parked vehicles. Why waste your time creating another useless bylaw?

Smart move for the city to provide this information. People will always complain about snow removal, but at least now they can have a reasonable expectation of when their street will be plowed. It was the lack of information that caused much of the frustration in the past.

I believe clean up refers to hauling the snow to the snow dump. The only difference i see to the procedures is timelines. Am i missing something?

Looks better than the past, see what happens this year

Way better than last year I can say that! But words are words and action is action, we will have to see what kind of excuses we read about this year.

Oh and P.S. 250News needs to have a Facebook sharing option…

I suppose my only question is why is it that every consultant report is between $150,000 and $300,000 and every solution the city comes up with cost between 150,000 and 1.5 million to implement. Seems to me the culture has become, “Oh, you have a problem!” First response is “no! There is no problem.”

Problem does not go away. Next response is, “We will see if there is a problem and get a solution by hiring a consultant at ?00,000.

Then it is, “we have a problem and a solution. It will cost ?,000,000 to fix it. Oh, we will need more staff too, and we need more tax money.”

Seems to me something is broken. In private industry we try to lower costs and look for innovation. The only innovation that seems to be happening is how can we convince the tax payers we need more money so we can raise the taxes.

This is not a council/mayor issue other than they agree but maybe we need to look at culture and admin.

no real change. Except for the titles instead of ” first priority”. It’s now Priority One.. What another waste of time.

Its one thing to have the plan, and its another to implement it.

Notice that the file seems to be the responsibility of Associate Director of Public Works, Gina Layte Liston. If so just having someone new looking after things could mean a much better job, than that done by those waiting for a **Golden Handshake**

I expect that we will get better service this year, because of the **intense** complaining done last year, the election taking place, and last but not least the Winter Games. 2016 is the year to watch.

I couldn’t agree more Lives here long time. Top heavy administration at the City is undoubtedly the problem, too many overpaid directors chasing their tails year after year… no new ideas, no solutions and no accountability!

First thing you have to do is drop the blade and don’t drive around with it a foot off of the ground, looks as though your trying to take the hide off a coyote.

I’ve, they drive like that so they know if the blade hits snow then the snow is at the “level it needs to be before the plows hit the streets” if it’s above that level they don’t gave the green light to plow. Lol

I would sure like to hear someone explain since when the city was responcible for cleaning Highways as stated. Is this not the responcibility of YRB under their contract with the Government. More of this city’s bs.

This is a positive first step in addressing snow removal in this City. I will be monitoring the time frames closely. Coming from Kitimat, a community whose name literally means “people of the snow”, I am familiar with winter safety. I expect City Administration to continue with its enhanced plan for effective winter fleet management.

“Councillor Dave Wilbur says the public needs to keep in mind the clean up will start when the snowfall ends”

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I agree completely with what Give more said on the very first post. IMHO, the key to good snow removal is to start clearing it as soon as it starts to accumulate and to keep going until it is done. This would apply to main arterials, priority routes and stuff like that. Letting it accumulate is what causes many of the problems with ruts, piles of slush if you get a warm snap, piles of ice if you get a cold snap, etc. Contributing to this is effective forecasting. If you know a storm is coming, get the equipment ready and on standby so that operations can begin right away.

Either Wilbur is being misquoted or he doesn’t understand. What it should say is the timelines stated for removal will begin at the end of the first snowfall. Not….clean up will start at the end of the first snow fall.

Read the line above the Dave Wilbur statement. Then ignore the Dave Wilbur statement. And please do Prince George a favour and ignore Dave Wilbur on voting day.

Stupidity at it’s finest, here’s why an election is needed.