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Regina city workers are continuing to make progress in clearing snow following the snowstorm from earlier this week.
According to Daryl Massier, Regina’s roadway seasonal operations manager, crews had managed to clear 85 per cent of its Category 1 roads as of Thursday afternoon and roughly 30 per cent of its Category 2 roads.
Category 1 roads include Albert Street, Lewvanm, Arcola Avenue, Vitoria Avenue and Rochdale, while Category 2 roads include 13th Avenue, Elphinstone Street, Broadway Avenue and Regina Avenue.
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Massier said Regina received between 20 and 25 centimetres of snow from the snowstorm, triggering a residential plow that he expects to take place sometime early next week.
“Thankfully, the snow that we were supposed to get on Tuesday night wasn’t nearly as bad as what they predicted, so we were able to kind of get ahead of it a little it and then we had all of our graders in on the next day to help with those conditions,” Massier said during a virtual media event on Thursday.
Massier explained that the city generally tries to complete its Category 1 roads within 24 hours of a snowfall event, Category 2 roads within 36 hours and Category 3 roads( like Greenwood Crescent, Castle Road and Shannon Road) within 48 hours.
The 25 cm of snow exceeds the largest recorded amount that the city received last February, at 17 cm. However, Massier said workers were well-equipped to handle it.
“We generally gear up for the expected amount. We were expecting the full 25, so we were ready for it,” he said. “It really doesn’t change our approach, whether it meets that threshold of five centimetres of snow, or all the way up to 25 centimetres of snow – it’s the same process.”
Massier said the city dedicated a special focus to some neighbourhoods on the outskirts of the city, which were particularly vulnerable to wind and blowing snow.
“With the amount of snow and the wind, there were obviously some of those places on the outskirts that experienced the effects,” he said, adding that graders were dedicated to those areas for that specific reason during the storm.
In the coming days, Massier asked residents to continue to respect the space of city vehicles as they complete work throughout Regina.
He recommended that drivers stay at least three and a half car lengths from city vehicles when they’re working and to not pull up to sanders at intersections.
