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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
A night of graders in Edmonton costs about 2-3 million dollars. We've had them out once for a period of a week maybe. Obviously our budget is a lot bigger, but there is more to this issue than simply spending the cash to get the snow removed.
I don't even know if Calgary would have the equipment available to do what Edmonton does.
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One of the Alderman was suggesting a few weeks ago that the city could bring in private contractors to help out. Immediately, there was some City Administrator out there saying that the private sector doesn't have the necessary equipment. Those of us who have lived in small towns or other cities know that you don't have to have specialized equipment. But here is the crazy thing: it's not an equipment issue. The City isn't even running it's current eqipment at capacity during the day, let alone at night. If they brought in contractor labour to help out during these extreme weather events, I'm sure they could get the job done.