The day after Edmonton's first major snowfall of the season, motorists are giving their opinions on how the city handled it.
"Very slushy, big piles everywhere. It was pretty bad," said Dustin.
"The roads we were on were all nice and clean early. Yeah. I think they did a good job," responded another motorist.
"The city tends to dump a lot of sand and salt at first and they don't bother putting blades to the pavement until basically the next day, that should be changed," expressed Les Stevens.
The city's policy is to begin plowing once there is three centimeters of snow accumulation.
"You can't plow snow until it's on the road," said roadway maintenance director, Bob Dunford on Friday morning.
About six centimeters of snow fell on Thursday. According to the city, truck plows were out by Thursday afternoon.
"The buildup started just before noon time yesterday. I mean, really, at ten o'clock yesterday morning there wasn't an awful lot built up. The biggest problem was the freezing rain with the morning rush hour. So, once it did start to build up, we did start to plow, switch from sanding to plowing," added Dunford.
On Thursday, police responded to three times the normal daily number of collisions. The majority of the crashes happened while the snow was falling the hardest.
By midnight on Friday, 173 pieces of equipment were working to clear snow off Edmonton roads. According to the city, 30 per cent of arterial roads were cleared by late Friday morning. Truck plows supposed to start working on residential bus routes Friday afternoon.
"Our goal is to get the driving lanes clear, get the wet snow off the driving lanes, so the roads can dry up with the warmer weather starting up tomorrow and just let the snow melt from there," said Dunford.
The city has not implemented the seasonal parking ban. Crews will continue plowing until Saturday afternoon.
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