Snow removal is a very important, and sensitive, part of the winter here in Montréal. A new Snow Czar has just been appointed, Luis Miranda the mayor of Anjou. This part of Montréal has the best record on cleaning streets and pavements/sidewalks.
As soon as there is 2.5cm of snow on the ground, the snow ploughs come by and clear the streets of snow and leave salt/grit on the road. Pavements are cleared by a small snow plough too so that you can walk along them.
Once the snow fall has stopped, the snow left by the plough will be removed. See the images below to see this in action.
Large stock piles of snow exist around Montréal waiting for spring and summer to come and melt it. After last year’s record snow fall, it was still melting in dumps in August.
Ha ha, fancy that – we get 15cm of snow in Brussels, one commune clears it quite efficiently, another just doesn’t bother, including main roads.
As it was so cold the snow lay in place for over a week. After this time I had to go out on the motorway and was amazed to see they hadn’t cleared even there correctly.
And they wonder why the accident rate is so high…