Before I get scolded again by someone who feels I digress too much, I thought I had better post my opinions about snow clearing in a more appropriate location. It is very fitting, actually, since it has a west versus east component to it.

Here is the policy from the City of Kingston, which has about the same amount of annual snowfall as PG - around 100 or so inches. Kingston can get blizzards from the lake whcih drop 8 inches or so a pop. Of course, the Maritime cities can get considerably more than that.

So here is the policy for Kingston.
[http]http://www.cityofkingston.ca/pdf/streets_wintercontrol.pdf[/url]

On page 9 you will find a table - for class 3 roads, which are local residential streets - plowing will begin when accumulation is no more than 8 cm, and the street will be bare no more than 16 hours after the storm has stopped.

So, I know what the steet priorties are in PG, similar to Kingston and most other cities. However, I do not think we have a standard as to what conditions are allowed to persist on roads and for how long.

I think that the same as the air quality, we thiought everthing was improving, the air quality, the attention to snowplowing. Then the weather changes back to the "normal" number of inversions and the "normal" amount of snowfall and we discover things are the same old same old.

oops http://www.cityofkingston.ca/pdf/streets_wintercontrol.pdf

I was recently in Seattle and drove back through the lower mainloand in what they consider a snow storm...It did not even warrant me putting my truck in 4 wheel drive .

I laughed as I droove on the so called snow in roads of the vancouver to hope area....if that is slippery to them folks they would really be screwed here.
As yesterday I backed out of the driveway, and promptly was stuck in the middle of my road...Even in 4 wheel drive i had to rock my truck back and forth many times to get enough momentum to finally drive away.
If vancouver ever got snow like we did they would shut the city down for 6 months and just wait for it all to melt when summer came....us northerners we just give ourselves a little more time to get to work is all.
And we keep in good shape all winter with the shoveling we do...lol

We are a hardy bunch .... it is not just northerners though, it is the rest of Canadians ... Vancouver is the exception, not the rule. All of Canada chuckles at Vancouver when this happens every decade or so.

I want to get a job measuring the snow on each street to determine if it meets the criteria, and sit in my pickup truck and time with a stopwatch, how long it takes the boys to clear the snow after it stops falling. One minute late, and you're fired, or fined, or suspended, or whatever.

Sounds like a policy of "micro-management", and anybody with a busy day would never run anything like that. But, apparently, some people have appreciation for micro-managing trivial issues all day long, in lack of anything better to do.

Some of us work in the real world and have the grim realization that it's as much as you can do just to do anything about the issues that come up every day and see that they are attended to in some way. Maybe not perfect, but not overlooked either.

:-p

I work in the real world which does not fear setting standards and trying to achieve them and improve them.

Maybe we have so many accidents in forestry because we have too many people with your unreasonable attitute Mr. TRM

Maybe we have the lousy air quality because we have too many people with your unreasonable attitude.

Maybe we have people who cannot get so called elective surgery for 2 years because we have too many people with your unreasonable attitude.

Maybe we have kids in school who do not do all that well when measured against other school districts because we have too many people with your unreasonable attitude.

Time to get past the "show up for work and try the best you can, tomorrow is another day attitude."

Sure, blame it all on me.

I'd be ecstatic to find someone who will show up for work everyday and try the best they can.
And tomorrow really is another day, especially when you are standing on today.

I do, however, like your new name for me, "Mr. TRIM". That's me for sure.

;-)