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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I wonder if part of the problem is that the plows are operated by different contractors?  So the coordination isn't very good.

When someone says that one road has been over-plowed, but the intersecting road not plowed at all, that makes me think that the contractor had specific responsibility for specific roads and isn't straying outside of that.

For what it's worth, I have friends in Baltimore who are dealing with the same issue.  One road gets plowed.  All the snow actually gets dumped in front of the intersecting road that hasn't been plowed at all.

I think it probably wouldn't hurt for cities to have a better plow plan to give to contractors when we get storms like this.  But it takes time and resources for someone to come up with something like that (a coordinated strategy).  And it's something that needs to be done before a storm.  Usually, once we get through a storm, it's all forgotten.  No one wants to spend money in the summer assessing the city street grid and devising a coordinated plow plan on the off-chance we get another storm like this in the coming winter.

Just my novice opinion.  [/quote]

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