That's about as cleared as Montreal gets in the winter for streets and sidewalks. They try to keep up with it but really you're looking at street and sidewalk clearing maybe twice a day if it's heavily snowing.
I don't remember the story behind this particular one, but I believe it was a sudden snow and ice storm. Should people be driving? Absolutely not, but while Montreal tried to get away from car centricity, it's still mostly car centric.
Oh and in Montreal it's the law to have snow tires on by a certain date, and keep them on to a certain date. Every vehicle there has at minimum snow tires on.
Honestly it's not that bad, their snow removal system is admittedly a marvel of civil engineering... if it wasn't so godawful for the people living there. The snow removal really relies on people having either no cars at all, have a steady 9-5 where there cars will be parked elsewhere anyway, or be rich enough to afford a private, off-street parking. Snow removal happens and one side of a street becomes no parking from 7-7, either am-pm or pm-am. So at any one time, half the spots are gone in the city during the winter. If it's 7am-7pm and you happen to work 9-5 or similar it's not bad: you'll be awake around 7 to move your car if the trucks come by, or after 5 for the same. It's 7pm-7am, better fucking hope you have private parking or no car at all. And if you work odd hours, forget it.
That's about as cleared as Montreal gets in the winter for streets and sidewalks. They try to keep up with it but really you're looking at street and sidewalk clearing maybe twice a day if it's heavily snowing.
I don't remember the story behind this particular one, but I believe it was a sudden snow and ice storm. Should people be driving? Absolutely not, but while Montreal tried to get away from car centricity, it's still mostly car centric.
Oh and in Montreal it's the law to have snow tires on by a certain date, and keep them on to a certain date. Every vehicle there has at minimum snow tires on.
WHY? Just....just all of that is fucking insane. Even for what I expected the layers of stupid are inspiring. Good job Quebec
Honestly it's not that bad, their snow removal system is admittedly a marvel of civil engineering... if it wasn't so godawful for the people living there. The snow removal really relies on people having either no cars at all, have a steady 9-5 where there cars will be parked elsewhere anyway, or be rich enough to afford a private, off-street parking. Snow removal happens and one side of a street becomes no parking from 7-7, either am-pm or pm-am. So at any one time, half the spots are gone in the city during the winter. If it's 7am-7pm and you happen to work 9-5 or similar it's not bad: you'll be awake around 7 to move your car if the trucks come by, or after 5 for the same. It's 7pm-7am, better fucking hope you have private parking or no car at all. And if you work odd hours, forget it.
I mean Montreal does like INCREDIBLE in the winter, so at least there's that