TORONTO – It’s another sloppy drive to work and school Thursday morning as the slow-moving storm system that dumped record amounts of wet snow on the GTA Wednesday continues to hang around.
Snowfall record
Toronto broke a snowfall record for Feb. 27, according to Environment Canada.
At Pearson International Airport, 12.4 centimetres of the heavy wet snow covered the ground, breaking the record of 7.1 centimetres set in 1967.
Storm cleanup
The slush is still flooding some city streets. City officials are asking homeowners to stop shovelling the slushy snow onto the road as it’s blocking the catch basins.
According to a report in the Toronto Sun, the city said the cost to clean up Wednesday’s slushy mess is around $2.5-million. However, that figure doesn’t cover any potential plowing, Thursday.
Toronto had set aside $82-million for snow removal this winter.
Peter Noehammer, director of Toronto’s Transportation Services, told theSunthat despite Toronto’s rough winter, the snow budget is still in “pretty good shape.”
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It is time to think about the hard working people of this big and lovely city, who already pay high amount of taxes; struggling to provide a happy and good home for their families. The houses of this city are built on very small strips of land without much place to throw/push the snow, especially when there is a fair amount of snowfall.
A fairly large number of the population is getting older and not able to lift the snow unto the very high banks due to not sufficient land to put the snow. Then the plough passes and pushes/dumps the heavy snow from the streets unto the driveway that you struggled to clean before going to work.
Then after a rough drive to and back from work, you are faced with another set of thick, hard and heavy snow that you have to clean again in order to get into your driveway.
Maybe it is time that our politicians start looking into picking up the snow (like some cities do) rather than have it pushed unto homeowners driveways, sometimes even blocking the driveway.
This way, people would be less tired, much happier and I believe there would less incidents due to snow.
I have a neighbour who shovels the snow out on the road. Until they get a very stiff fine….they won’t stop.
Record snowfall…Toronto??? In case you didn’t know…Pearson is in Mississauga…not Toronto so who’s record is it? lol
Drivers that plaster pedestrian through snow/water puddle splashing should be charged with Assault, Assaulting with a weapon and Assault causing body harm……
it`s so pretty out there this morning.. the birds are very happy??? maybe that`s it for today?? lol bring on MARCH…
People don’t care that it is illegal. Until they actually start ticketing people for doing it, no one is going to stop.
I agree with Willie. Advise people of city by-laws. We all pay tax for city services to clear our roads. Not for lazy people to shove the snow back on the road! Grow up people! We are all deemed responsible adults. Let’s behave like we have earned that title.
Loosen up Willie!
Need to tell the residents that it is illegal to shovel snow from your driveway or sidewalk onto the road. Under Municipal Code 313-3 bylaw. When they do that it causes the roads to be more
dangerous to drive or the city have to get the snow plow to come back again to plow the road again.
Actually, they should not plow them in teh first place.
Do like Québec, use a snowblower and send the majority of it onto the front lawns (no more piles hiding the view of the road) adn leave the rest. you get better traction on the snow than the slush Toronto roads have now.
Besides, I remember using mys kates on teh street to go to the rink to play hockey. no more cold skates or boots afterwards.
Again??? Never see them doing it first time where I live, its still a 1 lane street after the snow we had 2 weeks ago… They went up right side, never came down left side,….
yes, bring it on………