They are spending taxpayer money to inform us about snow and ice control?

Insert head banging brick wall emoticon here —->

I disagree. I think this is a pretty easy (and likely not too expensive) way to inform residents about clearing. I have a feeling this winter’s clearing will be way better than last year. Certainly it’ll be long-term effort to get things really good in terms of efficiency and equipment… but it should be better.

Finding easy ways to improve communication between the CoPG and it’s residents regarding a volatile and ongoing subject is frustrating you Dragon? Sounds like you’ve banged your head one too many times.

They are so prepared that they had a plow truck idling and a supervisor pickup idling in the Tim Horton’s parking lot on the hart last night at about 7 pm.

Holy over compensation batman.

As long as we don’t see another winter of plow trucks dragging blades on bare streets, and graders making six trips up and down one street which was cleared by the first two graders an hour ago. I hope they allow the operators the right to judgement on local street conditions.

Middle management needs to go “manage” something else when the snow flies. Too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough operators out “getting it done”.

Communication is all well and good but having some flexibility in the overall plan will ensure they will not get caught with their pants down like last year. An example would be keeping an eye on the forecast and if the prediction is for big dumps over a few days don’t freaking wait till there is 6 inches on the ground before the equipment leaves the yard.

With this winter predicted to be a big El Nino they will be doing the snow dance in February for the winter games with the sand trucks logging more miles than the graders this winter.

Loki- The city workers are entitled to lunch and coffee breaks and quite possible if they were working evening shift they were just on a regular break.

Nothing wrong with this idea at all. Keep banging your head to the first commentor. Last year many complained the city did crap all for communication so this year they change it and it still makes people all pissy.

All they have to do is get organized and not plow one st. then lift blade and travel 2 miles to plow and lift blade and travel to another spot to plow. To much time wasted traveling do one area then mover over to next instead of doing half jobs here and there.

All I can say is “thank god” for YRB without them clearing all the main drags P.G. would have come to a standstill.

The workers know how to get it done. Get management out of the mix.

Will there be a hotline like they have in the summer months for potholes? That would be helpful now.
Having the plow trucks actually plowing whenever they are travelling, helping doing some clearing at least would be helpful too.

All the pieces of equipment have GPS now, reporting their locations to a central monitoring station for tracking and route assigning at City Hall!

(It was promised and a news report recently confirmed that the installation was being done, so it must be true).

Plow truck drivers drove with their blades in the air most of last winter wasting fuel and getting nothing done. Tax payers are paying theses guys over $32.00 an hour for their services.

Looks like this may be consultant money well spent for a change. An actual strategy with communication and updates? Thanks to a yankee consultant. Whatever works. Clearly our home grown talent couldn’t figure it out.

Let’s see if better communications relates to improved snow removal. Remember it was Bill Gaal who last winter told the citizens of PG they expect to much in regards to snow removal. Hopefully now that he has been relegated to the back benches and someone with actual knowledge snow removal knowledge and efficient use of equipment has now placed in charge.