Snow Removal Begins

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City crews do not anticipate making it into residential areas today

Prince George, B.C. -  The city's main roads, problem hills and bus routes will be the priority today, as the snow eases and removal operations begin...

 "We had our full night shift out last night and we're ramping up with any piece of equipment we can get to get the snow that fell yesterday cleaned up," says the City's Supervisor of Streets Operations, Mick Jones.

"We're still calling contractors, trying to get them lined up for the day," says Jones.  "I would expect it to be somewhere in th area of25 and 33 pieces of equipment during the day and anywhere between 45 and 55 pieces tonight, depending on what we can get - we're in the process of making all the calls."

With so much snow falling yesterday, getting it off the roads was the priority, with snowblowing operations along University Way and Ospika, rather than any snow removal.  The downtown core was windrowed last night, Jones says pick up efforts will begin tonight.

He says it's unlikely city crews will make their way into any residential areas today, "We need to get caught up on the priority routes first, then we'll begin moving in ahead of garbage pick-up."

It was less than one month ago, January 17th in fact, when Mother Nature found us in this very same position on a Monday morning.

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