Residents plea for city to remove high snowbanks; citing difficulty to see oncoming traffic

Stolz says he’s has to use his truck to get his family in and out of the driveway because their other vehicles are too low and get damaged from the snow. He’s also helped his neighbors who live with a disability.

“Because of the snow, I don’t go out myself, but my husband uses Handy dart and sometimes he has a hard time because they will leave snow right in the middle of our driveway.” said Sheila Germann, Spruce Street Resident.

Since December 22nd, Prince George says its received more than 80cm of snow and cleaned up more than 8,500 dump truck loads. Which they say is enough to fill up the CN Centre three times.

Senior Communications Officer Mike Kellett says that he understands that some may be having difficulty leaving their driveways, adding that people should be exercising caution.

Kellett says that the city has been hit hard lately from the weather and they are working around the clock to clean up.

“After that’s done, and we’ve cleared the 700km of city road, then we go into maintainance mode and start addressing those line of sight issues. Things like the windrows and the really big piles of snow around the city, where and if we can. It’s a matter of priority right now” said Kellett.

Residents are able to remove the snowbanks themselves safely if possible, but Kellett stresses now is a time to drive to conditions.

by Oli Herrera

Residents plea for city to remove high snowbanks; citing difficulty to see oncoming traffic

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