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Originally Posted by MJM
I find the major problems with Calgary is that the snow removal doesn't start until AFTER the storm is over. This results in snow being packed down by drivers that have to go to work in the morning and the snow turning into an icefield with no hope of being removed until a Chinook hits.
What should happen is that before a storm hits, the roads should be heavily salted, and the plows should be on standby to start as soon as the first flake hits. This should reduce cost because less cleanup is required in the following days, and something could actually be done about the roads before it's too late. This is how it's done in every major city in the Maritimes, and their roads are excellent. The roads are better in New Brunswick during a major snowstorm than they are 3 days after a 10 cm light snow in Calgary.
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Wrong. We are always going while the snow is falling and after. Shift change is at 6 so you probably wont see much from about 530-630 when trucks are parked, new shift comes in and they get going. Not to mention waiting to get a load, or in certain cases having to drive to a different zone to get a load.
Salting the roads doesnt do much when its colder than -10 except maybe melt the snow a little bit before freezing it into ice so we dont even use it when it gets cold. Salting before the snow actually falls is another problem as there is now salt all over the roads and people bitch at it.
The "brilliant" solution was to use a calcium/molasses spray (crap) ahead of a storm that would help in the same way. The problem being, if it doesnt snow or it gets too cold for that, the liquid sits on the road and pulls moisture out of the air and makes, surprise, ice again.
The roads are better in NB because they have a fraction of the population and urban density than calgary does. Even in a light snow that can be salted away, a driver may not even get all of his Priority 1&2s done before the end of shift due to the sheer size of the routes as i explained a few pages ago.
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So in a nutshell, Calgary's current snow removal policy is let if fall and a chinook will take care of it.
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100% wrong, but a chinook never hurts
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Originally Posted by SteveToms
Calgary needs to do a better job painting lines on the road, even with the snow gone, they are hardly noticeable in spots.
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They paint them every year on major roadways and deerfoot. The traffic and weather fades them that quickly