Mayor Olivia Chow says she’s ordered a review of Toronto’s snow clearing and removal operations, calling the state of the city's roads and sidewalks “unacceptable” more than a week after the GTA was hit by two winter storms.
Mayor Olivia Chow says she’s ordered a review of Toronto’s snow clearing and removal operations, calling the state of the city's roads and sidewalks “unacceptable” more than a week after the GTA was hit by two winter storms.Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she's frustrated with how bad the city's roads and sidewalks continue to be more than a week after back-to-back snowstorms.
Chow said she sent a letter Tuesday to City Manager Paul Johnson and Toronto's auditor general, asking them to immediately review options to improve snow plowing and removal policies and practices.Nearly 105,000 tonnes of snow removed from Toronto streets as warmer temps bring risk of flooding On the issue of sidewalk clearing, Gray maintained that city staff and contracted crews have plowed every sidewalk in the city at least once since the beginning of the storm, but said that her department will be "going back to double check our records on that.""Plowing the sidewalks doesn't necessarily leave them clear, and so many people, we know their experience is that the sidewalks have not been cleared.
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