Perhaps the city could start by having all the excess snow banks cleaned up from the middle of the streets. Less snow in the roads melting means less pooling water and uncovers drains . Also some of the snow banks left in the middle of the roads are a huge safety issue. The one running down the center of Tabor is so high it is unsafe to make a left turn onto your street to get home. It is even worse for the kids that have to cross Tabor to get to school. Prince George is and always will be a winter city, the excuse of not being prepared is a crock of bull. It has been several days since the last major snowfall , so there really is no excuse for pooling water and blocked drains to this extent.

The reason the city is leaving the piles out is because they want them to melt as much as possible. This way they don't have to haul as much away. The city is just being lazy about it and on some streets it is dangerous for one vehicle to even drive as the lane available is so narrow that you can barely get by, and then some moron has parked their car right at the narrowest spot. Even some roads are horrible still (Laurier and 10th where all the people park and then go to the hospital...)
The city needs to start clearing the snow so that it is safe to drive and not have to drive into the snow piles to avoid hitting someone who has parked their car.

In Quesnel they haul all that white stuff away in dump trucks!

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PG????

Do they have no brains at City Hall?

The weather in PG is not always awesome. As you can see lately sometimes it is just plain crappy. Anyone who lives in PG knows this. Anyone who lives in PG also knows that sometimes it can take a while for our streets to be cleared, we just need to be prepared, not much to complain about when theres nothing we can do to change it.

Anyone see any potholes yet? ROTFLMAO!!!

If you complainers would take thy time to watch the process of the giant snowblower filling trucks and hauling it away (hundreds of truckloads)every night. I think that even you idiots would be impressed. It is a very fast and efficient method. Hats off to the city boys and girls on snow removal.

Just wait until someone falls down and drowns, they'll do something about the puddling then.

Watch yourselves southbound in the S-curves between James Dr and Ferry Ave, right beside the famous burning Smurf apartments. The left turn lane at Ferry and the two southbound through lanes,(thats 3 lanes) have become 1.5 lanes. Should be a crash there sometime soon I'm thinkin. If there was ever a need for those great snowblower and dumptruck teams to remove some snow, there would be the ultimate place to practice some safety.

Giterdun must have some affiliation with city hall or something to applaud their efforts in snow removal and call people idiots.

Well I'm an idiot who hasn't called the city to complain about my street. I listened and advised people to be patient as the powers to be keep saying we will plow streets as we can and priorities are garbage routes etc. Well I must be a real idiot for not complaining as garbage day has come and gone and my street still hasn't been cleared. Just huge puddles and packed snow.

I'm such an idiot that I get bent over every year with taxes for our great services and I also get bent over by my mechanic to fix my car as a result of the damage incurred driving through prince george snow piles and rain puddles.

But 600 city workers and family members filled out a survey on mypg website saying our current service is great so all must be ok!

Captain America wrote: "Giterdun must have some affiliation with city hall or something to applaud their efforts in snow removal and call people idiots."

There was a recent article in a magazine that spoke about how corporations have to get onto "social networking" sites as "blogs" are now tending to be called in the "newspeak" of the second decade of the 21st Century.

The reason? Because the negative comments of "social networkers" can spread like wildfire and be extremely harmful to a business. No amount of advertising or other form of positive information will cahnge people's minds as much as planting the seeds of opposite thinking on the very site where the complaints are generated and nurtured into explosive negativity.

I, too, peg "Giterdun" as falling into that category ... :-)

I know how to stop all the problems of snow removal. Let`s buy 5 or 6 more of those big fancy snowblowers and 20 more dump trucks. We`ll pay for them with one of those Dan Roger blank checks.

move south if you don't like snow

There used to be enough room for a right turn lane into Pine Centre off of Westwood northbound but its all covered with a snowbank. Used to be a third "exit" lane off of Massey between Westwood and the exit up onto Hwy 97 too but every year these particular lanes remain covered with snowbank until spring or a major clean up. Loaders have dug out a hole in the snowbank along Westwood for bus stops but they went eight feet and still didn't clean to the curb. Same thing every year, the streets are not plowed out full width. Not even close. Why?? Why are the supervisors not directing the graders to plow to the curbs?? Even when you bare the curb all along your property, they will leave two or three feet of snow behind them. A lot of the graders do have snow wings and if they have to fit a small steel wheel to the ends of their blades to prevent gouging the curbs, then put them on!! If they need to have a little blade extension to clear over top of the curbs so the snow falling back behind the blade doesn't fall back on the street, then put them on! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to design something that would work. Its funny how rural and logging roads can be plowed out full width but in town we are forced down to half the width. Anybody from "City" care to comment? Some streets are so narrow now, that when vehicles are parked on both sides of the street, a firetruck would be taking off mirrors or more, trying to get through. A vehicle can't even get into the designated left turn lane on 22nd at Hwy 97 from Central east side. Dan Rogers, are you listening??

A former logging boss always emphasised 'clean up as you go and then you don't have to go back'. Here it seems, although the trucks, loaders and snowblowers are doing all they can at what they are told to do, it seems the management philosophy is, go out there and look busy, we can do the rest later.

I'm on a bus route in the blue zone. Garbage pickup tomorrow. No graders and loaders yet. None ever, so far. But the city dump truck did come around two days ago. It had two plows on it, but all he did was spread sand and gravel at some intersections. Thanks, city hall. Am not whining. Just making an objective observation. Is all.

it should be illegal to cover fire hidrants and drains