Transportation Nightmare: 3 cms

It doesn't snow enough around these parts for the cities in invest in highway snow-removal equipment. Consequently, on those few days a year when snow sticks, the roads are slick and quite dangerous. As I don't have snow tires on my truck, I only venture out on the highways after things melt.



This shows the bottom of Sixth Street in New Westminster. We wanted to buy vegetables, but we shop uptown at Kin's in the Royal City Mall. As Translink offers two for one rides on Sunday, we decided to take Jay's monthly pass and the bus. When it eventually came, it went over to Eighth and up. It seems beyond what you can see, on the upper part of the hill, several Translink buses had gone sideways.

We travelled back via 22nd Station and even the SkyTrain was recovering from switch problems due to this ice. Transportation becomes so difficult around here when a few centimeters of snow falls. Clearly, here's another reason why the rest of Canada can snicker at the west coast.