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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Well it's too late now, it's past the point of no return. I think it's going to keep happening in Calgary unless major changes take places, such as adding millions to the snow budget, but that isn't realistic. In order to keep these ruts off the roads, the plows need to hit the show within a couple of days. And then the graders need to hit the other roads at some point as well.
I work for roadways here in Edmonton, and I am not criticizing Calgary, because there is simply nothing that can be done right now. One glaring thing I did notice though, is that off of major roads, but where buses still travel, is complete ice rinks. It is almost as if the city of Calgary doesn't even make an attempt to sand bus routes.
I haven't spent a lot of time in Calgary, but does this happen every year, or is this a complete change of pace?
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Hard to say. Almost everyone complains every year it seems. I've heard Winnipeg is really good but then again they probably pay way more taxes than us and are socialists.
I know in Regina the side streets are basically never done. Imagine 1ft deep ruts or more with tons of snow all over the side streets, major roads are usually ok.
I've never had a huge problem with Calgary. There is so much we don't know about what the City does it is hard to say if we can just blame them. Maybe it is too cold, or maybe they aren't used to 5 or 6 different occassions within 3 weeks where it snows about 1cm or so, as opposed to one big dump of snow that can be cleared right away.
I liken it to summer. Every summer everyone complains that we haven't had any good weather even if from mid june to the end of July it is 30 above every single day, and then it rains for like 4 straight days in August and everyone says it is another typical crappy summer.
Same with the roads. I'm not saying they are great, but I think we'd complain no matter what.