Residents were driving cautiously yesterday after the first snowfall of the season.

Director of Public Works Wayne Koversky says they were prepared for the hit, adding they didn’t need snow plows just yet:

"The trouble with truck plows in the City is because we go at a lower speed, they actually cause wash boarding. So with traffic on the street very early, it packs down the snow. They’re good for the highway application, so what we do, is we use the trucks plows when we find that we have a lot of heavy snow, and it’s continuous, so we put them to assist our graders".

Koversky says they had their sanders out.

With the snow season upon us, he reminds residents to drive cautiously around snow removal equipment and to drive accordingly to conditions.

The City has a snow removal operations policy that determines where the City removes snow first.

(Photo courtesy of Tony Taylor)