City of Ottawa: Your money at work! 21M$ snow plow!

[mart242]

http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/01/05/1379373-sun.html
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=35330

You've just finished shovelling your driveway after a 20-cm snowfall and you're ready to put the shovel away when you hear it -- the snowplow roaring down your street.

Bay ward Coun. Alex Cullen has a solution.

He wants the city to remove the pile of snow -- its technical name is windrow -- for you.

Despite a hefty price tag, Cullen says the $21-million investment would be worth it -- especially to an aging population.

"To reduce this irritation on city driveways would be a boon," said Cullen, who added that municipalities near Toronto are doing it


WTF??? If you can't shovel, pay someone to do it. Not only this would cost 21M$ but it will slow down snow removal and increase costs. That's ********. The city of Ottawa keeps raising municipal taxes, why do they even *think* about something like that?? Don't they have other things to think about?

[taro-chan]

I see them having dump trucks that transport snow around... whats up with that?

[gman]

http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/01/05/1379373-sun.html
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=35330



WTF??? If you can't shovel, pay someone to do it. Not only this would cost 21M$ but it will slow down snow removal and increase costs. That's ********. The city of Ottawa keeps raising municipal taxes, why do they even *think* about something like that?? Don't they have other things to think about?

Why will it slow down snow removal?

[gman]

I see them having dump trucks that transport snow around... whats up with that?

No where in the city to store excessive snow?

[mart242]

Why will it slow down snow removal?

According to what I've heard, the snow plow has to slow down / stop in front of each driveway to reorient the plow for each driveway so that there is no windrow in front of it or something like that. They won't be able to drive at 50km/h on streets to do that..

[gman]

According to what I've heard, the snow plow has to slow down / stop in front of each driveway to reorient the plow for each driveway so that there is no windrow in front of it or something like that. They won't be able to drive at 50km/h on streets to do that..

I sure hope the snow plow is not running 50km/h in your neighbourhood (the residential area).

[thelefteyeguy]

its done in scarboro already...mini-shovelers to clear the pile from the piles

[sportsfan99]

I see them having dump trucks that transport snow around... whats up with that?

They have to remove snow when it reaches a certain amount.I live on a court and up to this week we had a snow pile that took up more then half of the court.

[corrupt123]

who cares about politics, I want pictures of big machines!!!

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/ciee/pages/Fall%202005/North%20West/web%20big%20truck.jpg
http://www.collisiondetection.net/images/bigtruck.gifhttp://www.nps.gov/glac/images/plow2003/052103c.jpg
http://www.pavingexpert.com/images/news/sed05_digger.jpghttp://www.abc.net.au/rural/nt/img2/bauxite-mine-machine.jpg

:razz: :razz: :razz:

seriously, any pics?

[Anessa]

http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/01/05/1379373-sun.html
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=35330



WTF??? If you can't shovel, pay someone to do it. Not only this would cost 21M$ but it will slow down snow removal and increase costs. That's ********. The city of Ottawa keeps raising municipal taxes, why do they even *think* about something like that?? Don't they have other things to think about?

This thread is useless without appropriate pics :!:

[kingsley]

who cares about politics, I want pictures of big machines!!!



hahaha seriously, where is the $21 million snow plow?

[cliff]

Normal snow plow
http://rocky.dot.state.mn.us/cors/FS/SNOW_PLOW.JPG

Garbage truck snow plow
http://www.wrybread.com/gammablablog/im05/01jan/26/snow-plow.jpg

Get out of the way!
http://www.campusschool.dsu.edu/fieldtrips/PV/Snow%20plow.jpg


Snowblower
http://www.nunalogistics.com/images/winter_road/snow_plow_04_550x360.jpg

No comment
http://www.mrbeaver.net/images_weird/rednecksnowplow.jpg

[aquariaguy]

LOL, some nice pics.


In North York, the big street snowplows, they plow the end of your driver. They have like a teeny side shovel on the right, that swings down when he reaches driveway, than swings up right after, and clears the "crap" that just came on ur driveway that came from the big shovel up front. It's neat. Doesn't even slow the plowing down.

[fantom]

how the hell is this gonna help anyone?

what they should do (if they had some brains instead) is come up with some sort of heated, water/snow resistant material for driveways... so once the snow falls on it, you just turn on the switch and it melts the snow all over your driveway or wherever the hell you put it on.

how freakin' cool/easy would that be? and if you prefer to clean the snow yourself instead of paying some $$$ for this, you can still go ahead and do it without the big *******s up in Ottawa telling you what you should do.

[gman]

how the hell is this gonna help anyone?

Windrow is supposed to be the toughest to remove from your driveway. It is high, hard, solid and heavy.

what they should do (if they had some brains instead) is come up with some sort of heated, water/snow resistant material for driveways... so once the snow falls on it, you just turn on the switch and it melts the snow all over your driveway or wherever the hell you put it on.

That exists but you will need to figure out the energy bill (on top of the installation fee).
There is even a bio-heat one that you don't need to turn on the switch and you don't need to pay for the energy.

how freakin' cool/easy would that be? and if you prefer to clean the snow yourself instead of paying some $$$ for this, you can still go ahead and do it without the big *******s up in Ottawa telling you what you should do.
Did city of Ottawa tell you what to do?

[TheOneBarton]

"what they should do (if they had some brains instead) is come up with some sort of heated, water/snow resistant material for driveways... so once the snow falls on it, you just turn on the switch and it melts the snow all over your driveway or wherever the hell you put it on."

That would never work as the snow turns into water, water travels down the drive way and onto the roads. Then the water turns into ice, like to see you getting outta of your driveway with pure ice, hahaha. Imagine if you get something like a 20 cm blizzard??