01-05-2021, 06:17 PM
(01-05-2021, 06:04 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(01-05-2021, 04:37 PM)plam Wrote: I wonder whether there is a paywall. Anyway here is a thread on Montreal snow removal pointing to a Canadian geographic article:
https://twitter.com/CanGeo/status/134653...27744?s=19
Wow, that's a lot of money. I wonder what percentage is used to truck away snow...it's probably a lot, I'd bet the majority.
I wonder how much less money it would take to clear roads if every winter 2 lanes of any 4+ lane road and 1 lane of every 2-3 lane road was converted into snow storage instead of trucking.
Real fiscal conservatives would at a very minimum consider this option.
Probably most of it. The roads in the Montreal suburb where my parents live are pretty wide and could do with less width. On the other hand, areas like the Plateau Mont-Royal use streets as car storage and aren't that wide.