Snow route parking ban planned for Sunday as another winter storm hits
Posted Mar 2, 2018 4:51 pm.
Last Updated Mar 3, 2018 9:09 am.
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As another snowstorm hits Calgary this season, another snow route parking ban is expected to go into effect on Sunday.
City Manager of Roads, Bill Biensch, said they would have more details on Saturday.
“We will be able to provide the start time for that on Saturday based on where our snow begins to stop,” he said. “At this time our forecast is indicating early afternoon, so we are expecting hopefully by one or two in the afternoon, the snow will stop.”
Priority 1 routes will remain the focus for the foreseeable future.
“Every available person that is available to us, we’ve got them out there, and we’ve also got all of our contracted services, and we’re presently looking at actually implementing some additional rental equipment into that whole fleet because of the severity and longness of the storm,” Biensch said.
About 25 centimetres is estimated to have fallen by the time the snow tapers off early Saturday afternoon.
According to Calgary police, there were 285 collisions between 6 a.m. Friday and 4 a.m. Saturday, with 18 including injuries and there were numerous wrecks on area highways.
Environment Canada meteorologist Dan Kulak said if it feels like it’s been an unusually heavy season of snow, it has.
“Over the last few months, there has been a significant amount of snow, some months have been significantly above these average amounts for those times of the year,” he said, adding March can often have more snow than February.
And according to Environment Canada meteorologists, this first big snowfall of March is not likely to be the last.
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