City crews plowing, sanding

The city says plowing and sanding crews are out in Grande Prairie.
 
Transportation Services Manager Robert Carroll says they have been working since 10 p.m. Sunday.
 
“We started our winter schedule, which means that we have crews on 24 hours a day from 10 o’clock Sunday evening until 10 o’clock Friday evening, then on weekends, we have sander crews in and anything else that we do on weekends that we have to call people in. We’re 24-5 with our winter shifts right now and we’re going to have those shifts until probably mid-April.”
 
He adds what they call Priority 1 roads are being done first.
 
“That would be like 116 Street, 116 Ave., 132 Ave., 100 Street, 100 Ave., those main roads. The roads that come off of those arterial roads that kind of snake their way through residential areas, they’re our collector roads and they would be our Priority 2 roads.”
 
Industrial and residential streets come next on the priority list. Carroll says they haven’t yet decided if they will go into residential areas this time around.
 
” We usually go in when there are about 10 centimetres of snow. I think we got 10 centimetres, but with the temperature and that, it seems to be compacting quite nicely, so we may hold off until we get some more accumulation before we go in and do our residential areas.”
 
A parking ban on snow routes will start at 7 a..m. Tuesday and stay in place from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m daily until the snow is cleared.