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Snow clearing you can follow, zone by zone
See your street on a live snow map and get a text before the plow arrives.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
The problem
What residents describe today.
After a heavy snowfall, residents cannot tell whether their street is being cleared today or whether they need to move their vehicle.
When the plow leaves a windrow across a driveway, there is no simple way to report it and see that it was fixed.
Evidence
The problem comes from what residents describe after heavy snowfalls. It has not been measured yet. To test it: how many snow and windrow requests come in after each storm, and how long each one takes to close.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- A live snow map by zone and street: scheduled, plowing nearby, cleared.
- A text the night before your street is scheduled, and another when the plow is close.
- Report a problem in a few taps, with a photo.
- Before and after photos on your street page when the fix is done.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Whether a live map and texts are worth the cost, who would run them, how street schedules would be published, and the privacy rules for sign-ups.
- Next step to test it
- Ask residents through the survey on this page, then compare the answers with request records from one storm season.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video, 1 min 50 s
Video coming soon
Nick, a fictional Thickwood resident, checks his street, signs up for texts and reports a windrow.
Demonstration. Screens show simulated data. People in the video are fictional unless named.
Coming to the Tarrabin Consulting YouTube channel.
Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
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