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Originally Posted by ken0042
This morning on Global a city official said something to the effect of:
"Since the snow started we have logged over 170,000 km on our snow removal vehicles. So to put it into presepctive, that's the same as drive driving around the earth at the equator over 3 times- so we are doing a lot."
Well, to put it into real terms.... the city has 80 some-odd snow plows and sanders. So let's use 160,000 km and 80 vehicles for easy math. That means that in the 12 days since the snow started each vehicle has gone an average of 2000 km; or 167 km per day. Assuming each vehicle averages 30 km/h (which may be slow considering sanders go a lot faster) that means they have only been putting in 5-6 hour days.
The bottom line is the city just isn't getting it done.
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They've probably been doing more than 5-6 hours per day because the city has said that they haven't been operating at capacity because although they have the plows, they don't have the manpower.
There was a story in the Herald or Sun the other day about how there are quite a few trucks just sitting there unused because they don't have the staff to operate them.