Roadways Manager ready to tackle snow removal
Roadways Manager Brent Kennedy said Prince Albert is ready for winter.
Kennedy has 14 employees dedicated to snow removal who are ready to jump into action at the first sign of a storm. The city maintains a sizable fleet of equipment for that purpose, including six sanding trucks, four front-end loaders, two graders and two truck-loading snow-blowers. Two more graders are hired by the city on a contract basis, and more employees can be requisitioned from other departments.
P.A. roads are cleared and sanded according to a priority system, Kennedy explained. The top priorities are major arterial and emergency routes, followed by collector roads, bus routes and school zones. Next to be cleared are central business districts, then residential streets and alleys.
“You can guarantee Second Ave. is the first street that the sanders will go up,” Kennedy said. “Some go out to Fifteenth, and then we work on Ninth Ave. because it’s a hospital route.”