City of Regina, Ministry of Highways ready to clear snow

Many people will be scrambling to find a scraper or shovel as the snow comes down, but the City of Regina and the province have been ready for weeks.
 
Several centimetres of snow is expected to fall on southern Saskatchewan Wednesday, and high winds are expected to blow it around.
 
Chris Warren, manager of winter maintenance with the City of Regina, said they get ready for snow by Nov. 1.
 
“As we’re winding down the summer construction season, we’re gearing into winter maintenance.”
 
But we’ve had a couple of weeks of nicer weather.
 
“It’s given us an opportunity to do a little bit more work that we typically do in the fall, in term of filling pot holes, maintaining our grid roads, things like that,” said Warren.
 
Warren said the majority of their equipment has been converted over to winter use; everything is prepped and mounted, and their winter contracts and shifts are in place.
 
“We’re a winter city so we follow the same sort of protocols every year, to ensure that whether the snow comes Nov. 1 or Nov. 30, we’re ready to take on whatever it might be.”
 
The Ministry of Highways with the province is on the same page. Doug Wakabayashi said they’re ready to go.
 
“We have almost 300 plows stationed at various locations across the province, we have materials like salt and sand stockpiled and ready to go.”
 
He said they’ve been ready for a while because, historically in Saskatchewan there has been snow in every month of the year.
 
Wakabayshi also took the opportunity to remind drivers to watch out for the mini-snowstorms caused by snowplows on the highway.

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