Originally Posted by
venture79
It is quite obvious the cities around the Metro have no ability to handle snow events that we tend to get 2-3 times a year (especially recently). The fact that we still had major roadways/highways still snow covered late into Wednesday (even tonight) is horrible and unacceptable. These things should have been scraped clean by now. Unfortunately we'll just get the "we don't have the resources, you'll have to wait for it melt" answer when asking any city official about uncleared roads. This is extremely troublesome for residential or secondary areas where children still need to be picked up or commuters need to travel from to get to work. Plus, we seem to have a situation where the city shuts down 2-3 days per event due to poor road conditions. How does this reflect on businesses looking at OKC as a home? Yes we may be sunny 330 days a year, but come winter expect a few days a bleeding red ink as employees can't get to work or call out because they aren't comfortable enough driving in it.
The most cost effective answer to this of course would be equipping the sanitation vehicles with quick hitch plows. This would drastically increase the snow removal fleet size and get the city running again much faster. We could also see secondary and residential areas cleared as well. Which would be a good thing since we aren't going to be above freezing much for several days. Road conditions will continue to be hazardous for school buses and commuters in these areas ignored by cities.
Hopefully this will start to really get addressed going forward as these events keep occurring on a regular basis.
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