1/3/2009
If you're holding your breath for a snow plow to come down your residential street in Vancouver, don't.
Mayor Gregor Robertson says city plow crews have been working extraordinarily hard over the holidays to keep main routes clear.
But what about clearing side streets, where many cars, including emergency vehicles, have gotten stuck?
"We are hearing that rain is coming Sunday, so we hopefully have gotten through the longest stretch of snow in Vancouver's modern history, and we won't be needing to...if it continues on, we'll have to look at the next layer of side streets that we can get to, if we are into more snow over this next week. But, the forecast is for rain. Everyone's been doing their rain dance," says Robertson.
Robertson says out of a fleet of 47 trucks, they've had 10 to 15 out at any given time for 12-hour shifts during the holiday snowfalls.
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