The response to Toronto’s winter ice cleaning does not meet the standard required, and the city needs to create a one -year -round winter operating unit.
It is one of the recommendations being made to improve the city’s winter maintenance operations during the major storm events.
To review the city’s snow removal process, it was said that it took a total of 18 days to remove snow across the city, after several February storms that were buried under ice over 50 cm after the storms of several February.
City manager Paul Johnson says that when it comes to big snowfall incidents, the city continuously decreases.
“Failure is our overall plan and structure. We can’t just remove the ice fast,” Johnson said.
“Generally, if there are events around ice and it occurs in 10 to 15 cm range, our response is quite consistent and our reaction in terms of working is quite good. However, when we have a major winter phenomenon, we continuously reduce that mark.”
Johnson says that the construction of a dedicated year -long winter operating unit will be a strong overall plan to respond to the major ice events and will be able to treat the authorities of ice that they are in the form of emergency conditions.
Johnson says that removing ice requires a more strong contract approach, as well as strengthening communication with the public to share and get communication. He recommends that the temporary grip on 311 service calls, as snow falls, be removed so that the authorities can give better answers to those issues as they arise.
The recommendations are ready to go before the meeting of the Mayor’s Executive Committee next week for debate.
