City sends out equipment to clean snow piles by northwest Winnipeg driveways
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WINNIPEG — The City of Winnipeg has dispatched equipment to clean up piles of snow left behind by snowplows at the bottom of Maples driveways.
Sunday night, a city public works spokesman said the piles of snow, known as windrows, were being cleaned up.
“Our snow inspectors picked up on them and contacted our contractor responsible for that area,” Ken Allen said.
The contractor was told to clean any driveways on residential streets where snow trucks had left behind windrows at the end of driveways.
“There’s no fun, having that in your driveway,” Allen said.
An eight-hour wait to clear away crusty ice windrows the size of mini icebergs from driveways is way too long, Maples MLA Mohinder Saran said earlier Sunday.
He said his constituents are bringing their complaints to him about mounds of ice and snow that were left behind that block their driveways after the city mounted a massive snow removal.
The average wait in the Maples is eight hours or more, Saran said Sunday.
“I phoned the city and they said they normally come within eight hours. So I phoned somebody in Fort Whyte and they said normally one truck follows behind another truck and they clear the windrows immediately,” Saran said.
One crew following another to get the mounds out of the way is the city’s policy on streets with front lawn driveways.
“It sounds like there were delays in the Maples…” Allen said.
Typically windrows are cleared within an hour of plows going through on residential streets, Allen said.
Saran said his constituents are getting second-class treatment.
It’s not fair, he said.
“Residents of the Maples pay the taxes at the same rate as paid by the residents of south Winnipeg but are not getting the same service,” Saran said.
Snow removal problems in the Maples is a constant complaint that goes back years, Saran said.
The issue came to a head after three snowstorms dumped double the average snowfall in the entire month of November in only one week.