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Originally Posted by highthief
But what Toronto does not understand is that the ramifications - due to economic activity and the amount of traffic - of a snow storm in Toronto (or even of the few centimetres we got yesterday) are much greater than of storms that happen in smaller towns. It is well worth it to businesses for Toronto to put a few more plows on the road. Hell, they took their recently acquired melters off the road because some city worker got hurt using them last year and they still haven't agreed on how to train the workers better or if they want to install some kind of safety mechanism on the machines. Make a decision already!
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I agree. But I don't know if the snow removal budget in Toronto is being used wisely. I know for one thing, that the cost of sending those little sidewalk snow ploughs is wasted. I notice this weekend that one came down my street. 4 days after all the residents had shoveled the sidewalks clear. The cost of this could be directed towards additional road ploughs.
We never did have sidewalk snow removal before amalgamation (in old city of Toronto) so I think it is a grand waste.
And not using the snow melters is a crime.