Warm weather hampering road clearing crews

The warm weather may be good for those who were tired of the recent cold snap that's been lingering in the city, but it's not very good news for the city snow clearing effort.

Whether it's ruts in the roads or the slushy snow mixture on many streets, blading in residential neighbourhoods is being hampered because of it. City snow clearing crews are running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week right now trying to get the snowpack down to five centimetres as per city policy, but trucks are now breaking through the snow cover and creating worse conditions in some areas. Roadway maintenance says they'll keep going and then start the whole process over again.

"Hopefully we don't get any more snow to take us away from residential, but we're going to start right back and keep on going." Bob Dunford, spokesperson for city roadway maintenance said Friday.

Also continuing to hamper the snow clearing effort is residents still parking on the streets, leaving some of our city's narrower roads impossible for city trucks to get down.