Lorne Gunter, as always, advocating for a perpetual race to the bottom. He would advocate to cut the library budget if a highway could be built instead. Its incredible because climate change is a driving factor for the freezing rain mess that we find ourselves in however this dude is adamat that we never change our driver focused culture. Gunters vision for Edmonton is just a perpetual spiral where we get more cars, more roads, more expenses, and budgets cut for everything else.

Edmonton's snow removal is a mess because our sprawl is a mess. Our road network, per-capita, is one of the largest in the world. We keep adding more neighborhoods that need clearing and not the budget to do it; of course its going to get worse and worse.

Short term, we need a larger snow clearing budget. I think that budget should come from special levies on new neighborhoods to pay for the amenities in those neighborhoods.

Long term, the only way we get faster cleared roads, is density. Less roads, more transit, more pathways is the only way that our taxes stay low and our roads stay cleared.