It’s Wednesday evening. I’m sitting at home looking out my window and watching a snow-removal bobcat scraping the sidewalk near my home. He’s just made his third pass inside about 10 minutes. The strange thing is that the roadways and sidewalks are clear and dry -– it’s been nearly 72 hours since the last bit of snow fell Sunday night, and that was mostly wind-blown rather than new snow.
This is not the first time I’ve witnessed this repeatedly wasteful use of what I imagine to be costly snow-removal resources. Is it that the city requires its engineering department to empty its coffers before a new budget is set? Or is there some other explanation for this moronic waste of taxpayer dollars? If there is, I would certainly like to hear it.
G. Wowk, St. Albert
