Snow stories (addendum)

Awhile back, I wrote about how great Montreal was at cleaning up snow. The city is efficient and organized.

I have two more things to add:

1. "Part 1" of their grand plan (that I referenced in the aforementioned post) might not be logistically possible in other cities. It seems that they use a snowplow that drives on the sidewalk that pushes the snow out onto the road. Since the sidewalks is just beside the curb, this is possible. It would not be if they used the same system in the neighborhood where I grew up where there's a patch of land between the sidewalk and the curb often containing trees.

2. Not only do they put up signs the day prior to notifiy cars not to park on the street before they plow, but earlier in the evening before the plows come a truck drive around sounding a loud siren/honking noise to give warning that the tow truck will be coming around soon to remove vehicles still parked on the street.

Also, I guess the one unfortunate thing is that the plowing/blowing/trucking cavalcade often goes by in the middle of the night. It's sorta loud and contains a lot of flashing lights. (Small price to pay?)