‘We will continue to sand’: Winnipeg increases efforts to thwart icy streets

City crews are stepping up roadworthy sanding efforts successful an effort to mitigate the effects of icy conditions connected Winnipeg streets.

The city’s manager of streets maintenance, Michael Cantor, told 680 CJOB sanding operations person been successful effect for immoderate clip this winter, but efforts are redoubled erstwhile conditions worsen — arsenic they person implicit the past 24 hours.

“We person been sanding for the past fewer weeks successful an ongoing cognition connected our streets,” helium said.

Cantor said the soil tin person a inclination to alert disconnected the roads, particularly successful high-traffic and high-speed areas, truthful workers and instrumentality volition person to ellipse backmost to immoderate spots again.

“We’re conscionable doing it more, and got much trucks overnight to effort to screen much web connected our precedence 1 and precedence 2 streets, but we person been sanding for a while.”

“We person been sanding the streets since yesterday overnight, and we volition proceed to sand,” Cantor said.

“Sand tends to not enactment connected the streets truthful we request to re-sand immoderate locations, and we’ll proceed until they are successful satisfactory conditions.”

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