Changes coming to City of Humboldt's snow clearing

With snowfall now slowly appearing in Humboldt, the City of Humboldt has started planning regarding snow removal at Monday, November 27th’s meeting. 

Big changes coming to the City’s priority 1 sector are:

• Changes to the Urban Highway Connector Program (UHCP) mean that the city is now responsible for an additional 2,737m of Highways 5 and 20 under P1 that the Ministry of Highways cleared in the past. 
• The downtown was added as the City says this needs to be done at night due to traffic. Stating that this modification better conveys what happens in the field. 
• New for the 2023/2024 winter, City staff will send out letters at the beginning of the season to everyone on the P1 routes asking to move their cars after a snowfall. Temporary signs may also be used to assist this in high street parking areas. This will be a first attempt to limit parked cars on the roads rather than implementing bylaws, installing permanent signs, and ticketing at this time. 

Changes to Priority 2 include: 

• Added several roadways that have higher-density buildings and parking competition. Additional removal is also noted and being proposed. 
• Uniplex is now being cleared by contracted services due to timing, so the work has been removed from the snow-clearing map. 
• 12th Ave was added to this list as this section of roadway has moderate traffic volumes and 2 senior care facilities are accessed from this roadway. 

Priority 3 changes are as follows:

• Added several new roadways to the listing as earlier plowing better helps relieve the areas and is practical with plowing route practices. 
• Additional removal is also noted and being proposed.

For more information regarding snow clearing, click here.