Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

I have seen this...somewhere...but I don't recall where.

They already could do this without any logistical challenges in some places...and in fact, they already do it in some cul-de-sacs, but any road with a middle median could have snow ploughed there, and there wouldn't be ANY adjustment to make.

I'm on a road with a middle boulevard, on a bus route. Snow is pretty much never plowed into the middle during the first 48 hours or so of a storm. A few days after when clean-up is going on, they will often clear into it, but the worst of the plowed snow has already ended up in our driveways. Every now and then one of the drivers will just run up the street backwards (it's a one-block access road into a subdivision) which is always a nice bonus to wake up to, but we've been here 17 years and it's not something that happens even annually.

My understanding of why they don't - which is unconfirmed neighbour chatter - is that it takes too much time to change the blade angle.

I didn't mean they were doing it now on roads with boulevards, they do it in some cul-de-sacs.

I simply meant they could do it on roads with boulevards and it wouldn't change much, except the plough blade angle. To be fair, I'm not a plough driver, I have no idea what that involves, it could be more difficult than changing the blade angle on the vehicles which clear our parking lots...