REMINDER: This winter Oshawa is conducting a SURVEY on the City's SNOW CLEARING OPERATIONS. Feedback received through the survey will be considered in adjusting winter operations.
Here is the link to fill out the survey https://connectoshawa.ca/snow
NOTE: The City "encourages community members to complete a feedback form 48 hours after each winter storm this season."
If you visit the City's Snow Clearing Activity webpage you will see the latest snow event started Feb 15 and ended Feb 16, 2024. So now is the time to get your feedback in!
Each winter snowfall I receive many calls as a City Councillor. Some are from residents who live on a court or street with a bend or centre median and find the plow driver is driving in a direction that results in an excessive size windrow. Operations staff indicate they make the effort for new plow drivers to learn the correct method to minimize this. However, it still seems to happen.
But perhaps the greatest number of calls relate to the delay in the City clearing snow from the sidewalk/windrows under the Snow Clearing Assistance Program. Under the snow clearing priority system the assistance program timeline is spelled out as “No later than 5 p.m. the second day following the end of a storm.”
Many are asking why can't the Assistance Program sidewalk/windrow clearing plow not be scheduled to follow the street plow within a couple of hours. Imo it is a good question to ask. Hopefully interested Oshawans sending this message are heard and improvements made!
Here is the link to fill out the survey https://connectoshawa.ca/snow
NOTE: The City "encourages community members to complete a feedback form 48 hours after each winter storm this season."
If you visit the City's Snow Clearing Activity webpage you will see the latest snow event started Feb 15 and ended Feb 16, 2024. So now is the time to get your feedback in!
Each winter snowfall I receive many calls as a City Councillor. Some are from residents who live on a court or street with a bend or centre median and find the plow driver is driving in a direction that results in an excessive size windrow. Operations staff indicate they make the effort for new plow drivers to learn the correct method to minimize this. However, it still seems to happen.
But perhaps the greatest number of calls relate to the delay in the City clearing snow from the sidewalk/windrows under the Snow Clearing Assistance Program. Under the snow clearing priority system the assistance program timeline is spelled out as “No later than 5 p.m. the second day following the end of a storm.”
Many are asking why can't the Assistance Program sidewalk/windrow clearing plow not be scheduled to follow the street plow within a couple of hours. Imo it is a good question to ask. Hopefully interested Oshawans sending this message are heard and improvements made!