Don’t want to sound like a constant complainer, but It’s to bad the city wouldn’t have salted the streets before the freeze. I guess they figure that is one way to save money, unfortunately looking out for peoples safety should be number one priority.

Oh shut up. ..1st you complain about snow clearing now sanding did you all not get a gift this Christmas. …

“Don’t want to sound like a constant complainer”….. is this your New Years resolution Mav ?

Was in Vancouver last week and they don’t hesitate to tow, they will do it at 3am and when you get up you have to take a taxi to the impound and pay for 2 days because they roll over to a new day at 6am.

Just imagine the headlines if PG actually towed one vehicle to an impound. Just make a deal with impark like they did in Vancouver and they would even buy the tow trucks and rent the lots from the city, we have enough unused space owned by the city to do it. The first time you pay 250 bucks to get your car out of the impound for parking on the street would be the last I am guessing. The impound bylaw is very simple, just copy Vancouver’s that is already on the books and add a few PG flairs

Just came back from Calgary were they know how and when to lay salt! Our city doesn’t have a clue. City had 24 hrs of optimum salting weather but chose not too now our streets are skating rinks. I guess I should make that my New Years resolution. Common sense isn’t that common anymore Digitus Impudicus.

We really do need some salting done…these roads are very slippery!

Or alternatively, just slow down and drive to the conditions.

Salt would not work now, at these temperatures, but sanding/pebbling would.

Sanding and pebbling will not work now. Will not stay in place.

Salting now will be a big waste. It’s just going to get picked up by vehicle traffic and thrown all around making it useless. Sanding however will be the same but at least it’ll give some traction to go. Even spinning out with Winter tires on. I bet that wind made it even more slick. Drive carefully!

Do we ever have the road maintenance experts on this site. Good luck.
Cheers

Hey Maverick, how many Sand / Salt trucks do you think the City has?
Do you have any idea how many miles of road the City maintains?
How many hours were there between snowfall and the temperature getting cold?
I just ask these questions because based on your whining about salting / sanding we would need a dedicated truck for every subdivision in town in order to have accomplished what you think should have been done.
It’s a simple equation really based on how many miles of road one truck can cover in the number of hours mother nature gave us to get the roads salted and sanded. I would suggest to you that they concentrated on priority routes and intersections before they ran out of time!
I happened to be out and about for a few hours on Saturday while it was snowing and happened to see several of the sand trucks out salting and sanding in various areas of the city so I know they were out there!

The solution is beet juice.
Works at all temperatures
does not blow away
is bio-degradable
does no harm like salt

but then that would be innovative and effective. These are foreign concepts to the gong show known as city works.

A retired City Works chief once told me that if you added the length of all city maintained streets and roads together it would stretch to Vancouver one way, and that was quite a few years ago.

How can we expect the city fleet and contractors to be able to look after more than the priority routes during and after a snow storm?

metalman.