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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
Yesterday, I came across this 2 hour HQ footage of snow removal in Montreal: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bQujcjTZEG8
I was shocked by this huge holes where they dump the snow. Never imagine that such infrastructure existed nor ever thought about on how challenging it was to keep the city working. I imagine there are tens of thousands of people working on it. Amazing video.
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great video. There is some hometown pride in Montreal's incredible snow removal operations. Montreal apparently has the largest snow removal budget in the world.
140 000 tonnes of salt and abbrasives (they use sand as well). 180 trucks for roads, 190 for sidewalks to distribute said salt.
1,000 vehicles for plowing streets and sidewalks (sidewalk tractors, graders, snowplows and front-end loaders).
If you add salt truck, plows, graders, removal trucks, etc.. you get over 2200 vehicles. 300 000 truckloads of snow removal per winter. (12 million cubic meters of snow removed - 225 cm of snow per year)
4,100 km of sidewalks and 6,550 km of roads
3000 employees, $168 million budget per winter. (3% of city budget)