CdA Plows, Workers Ready For Snow

Ready or not, reports City Administrator Wendy Gabriel/Coeur d’Alene Today, winter is on the way. Rest assured, the Coeur d’Alene street department is ready. Street superintendent Tim Martin says his crews are poised to tackle anything Mother Nature dishes out with 7 dump trucks equipped to plow major arterials and 7 residential plow teams ready to plow neighborhoods. Graders will again be equipped with snow gates to minimize berms left in front of driveways. Martin will provide an overview of the 2013-14 snow removal plan during the City Council meeting Tuesday (November 19) at 6 p.m. in the community room of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library. The meeting will be televised on Channel 19. The street department’s goal is to complete a citywide snow removal cycle in 38 hours, which is a 25 percent reduction in time since 2000 thanks to increased efficiencies and improved equipment. That’s pretty impressive when you consider the city has 505 lane miles of streets.

Question: Are you as impressed as I am that city plows respond so quickly to snow storms — and still find time to raise gates to prevent our driveways from being plowed in?