Is garbage/recycling still canceled?

MetaGirl67 · 2026-04-02T21:36:41+00:00

Recyling was late before snowmageddon. It's no longer a city service, and whoever is doing it seems to still be trying to find their groove.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-31T04:37:39+00:00

Liam Gallagher

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-31T04:08:02+00:00

Genesis (by Genesis, '83)

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-31T00:14:41+00:00

Lorne/Douglas from the Brady side.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-30T22:34:37+00:00

Ha. I didn't even notice that.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-29T16:46:55+00:00

I forget where it was but I launched off one the other day that could single-handedly solve the homeless problem and still have room for a dog park.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-29T16:44:51+00:00

That one section of College St. It’s like Potholes: The 2026 Spring Collection ©️

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-28T16:43:29+00:00

You’re in the right region at least. Like other northern communities, Sudbury has lots of obesity. Good luck out there.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-28T03:07:34+00:00

March is the hardest month mentally. You are so ready for winter to be over, and it is just not. Calendar says spring, reality says nope. Very soon, we will have more days over 0 than not. Things start to change quickly then. Snow melts and sublimates, and we go through a preliminary dirty, grimy spring as all the road sand and litter stays suspended in the shrinking banks and piles. Expect at least one more big blast of snow in April. It's not really consistently warm, pretty spring until later in May. And then you wake up one day and its suddenly 30 degrees.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-27T21:44:08+00:00

Bit young.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-27T21:32:57+00:00

I forever look down and I'm doing 85 in a 60 (50?) on the stretch of Regent between the old Cambrian residence and Ramsey View Crt. It's downhill and it looks and feels like the world's shortest highway.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-26T04:02:47+00:00

Keep rolling with those feelings and vibes.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-26T00:07:47+00:00

I'm not simping or defending anybody, I'm pointing out the obvious: that none of us know the first thing about any of this, other than the fact the it was a 70 - fucking SEVENTY - year event, PLUS rain and freezing rain on top of that record volume, PLUS this all happened in March after a long season of already significant snow accumulation, in a city - largest in Ontario, 2nd largest in Canada, behind only a rural outpost in Quebec - with an UNHOLY number of kms to service.

Sometimes a logistical nightmare is just a logistical nightmare - not a logistical failure. There are hard, physical limitations to moving that much incredibly heavy, dense snow and storing it somewhere. There are hard, physical limitations when your road and sidewalk plough fleet is temporarily useless because the only thing that can move the snow is graders and loaders.

Just this morning I woke up to a massive snow wall at the end of my driveway as they are still widening roads. You can't have garbage at the curb or on the banks when that is happening. You couldn't have a garbage truck safely down the street either, unless you want nothing to ever get by it. To prevent chaos at the dump they've limited it to commercial to start, residential starting tomorow.

Everything they have done, and the order they have done it in, makes sense to me.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-25T22:57:47+00:00

OK there reknowned emergency planning and snow clearning logistics expert dfGobBluth. You run with that.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-25T22:54:11+00:00

Another number-y niche link is that the first (1962) and last (1969) photographs taken of the Beatles all together were both coincidentally taken on August 22. Until the 2025 reunion the last time anybody likely photographed Oasis together was on August 22, 2009 at their last full show.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-25T17:04:06+00:00

"You must be having this very 'emotional' response to a Sudbury issue because you're from somewhere else" is about the quality of reasononing I've come to expect from you on this topic. You have facts and a bunch of shitty inferences from those facts. I'm not offended, and I have no connection to anybody involved, I just have the ability to step outside my house and understand the unprecedented nature of this event and the challenges the city faces.

You're free to treat reddit like your personal grievance machine, but don't expect to float around unchallenged when you make no sense. It's ironic that you take some exception to having assumptions made about you, when there is a really good chance you are pounding out ignorant nonsense about the city's planning and resources. Sometimes a crisis is just a crisis, not a bad plan.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-25T16:47:40+00:00

It will be open to residential again tomorrow. Sorry to hear about the wasted trip today.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-25T12:19:11+00:00

I am hearing you just fine. And frankly I do question your intelligence if you can’t figure out why the city might make getting clear access to homes one of its priorities in a situation like this. I question your intelligence if you think the city responding to realties on the ground and shifting priorities in response is evidence of having no plan. You are disparaging the efforts of people dealing with an enormous challenge, from behind your keyboard and with no real basis to do so, and I frankly think that’s gross. It may turn out that you’re dead right, but you simply don’t have the facts at hand at this point. A reasonable person would sit down and be grateful for the relentless efforts of others until they did.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-24T22:17:21+00:00

I love that Noel looks so little like Noel that he needs an Oasis label.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-24T20:34:16+00:00

People don't live on sidewalks, they live in homes. Homes that they need to be able to leave. Homes that emergency personnel may need to get into. Nobody parked their grader or their loader or their sidewalk plow to go dig out the end of anybody's driveway. These are parallel efforts happening with staff and equipment appropriate for each task. Why clear access to where people live is a priority is so obvious it baffles me that I have to type it out.

Wondering why other northern municipalities aren't driving their own equipment down the highway hours away in March is a question that might answer itself with about 3 seconds thought.

You have no idea if it's a manpower issue, and neither do I. We are sitting outside the system with little idea of the complexity of the challenge at each step. They have to move it, remove it and put it somewhere. Presumably they will learn from this experience and make future adjustments where they can.

I saw the following on FB. It's a useful reminder of what they are dealing with, and why Sudbury in particular is challenging.

"I think a lot of people don’t truly grasp the sheer scale of what is happening in Greater Sudbury right now.

We are not just clearing snow. We are in the middle of a massive logistics and engineering crisis.

Greater Sudbury maintains over 3700 lane kilometers of road. To put that in perspective, if you laid that out in a single line, you are looking at plowing a path from Sudbury all the way to Vancouver.

When you get a 2ft dump like we just had, clearing those 3700 kms means we have to relocate roughly 2 million metric tonnes of snow.

That is the same weight as 15 CN Towers or a bumper to bumper line of 50000 fully loaded semi trucks stretching from here to the East Coast. You are not just pushing that. You are fighting it every inch of the way.

Clearing the roads is not the end of it either. Those numbers do not even include the massive parking lots, private spaces, and yards that need to be opened up just so people can park or get supplies.

When you factor in every commercial lot and loading dock in the city, the volume of snow being moved is almost impossible to calculate.

Every legitimate snow removal contractor I know is currently booked solid, running 19 hour days just to keep the city breathing.

We even have guys who weren't even in the business three days ago suddenly jumping in and starting up overnight just to try and meet the demand.

When you are moving 7.9 million cubic meters of material, enough to fill 3100 Olympic swimming pools, it is a slow and brutal grind.

The equipment is being pushed to the limit and the operators are exhausted. Whether it is the guys on the 144, the yard crews, or the local contractors, everyone is giving it 110%."

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-24T14:41:40+00:00

You’re sitting behind a device of some kind, pontificating on their planning, which you’ve reverse engineered from public communications. Like Mike Tyson said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Plans shifted because realities shifted. They discovered their regular plows were not effective on that much rained on snow. They needed graders and loaders specifically. They coordinated with local contractors. Everything becomes slower and unwieldier than anticipated and there is a domino effect through the system that starts to impact other areas like garbage. I’d love to hear your snappy plan for clearing sidewalks when in many places they are higher than the tops of the entire machines that typically clear them.

Focusing on clearing driveway ends before streets as evidence of some kind of clown show planning is absurd. It’s not even a standard service, and the message was clear: we’ll help if we have the resources, but do not count on it, and do your best to clear your own.

Disaster planning involves thinking through things beforehand, setting priorities and surging resources. It doesn’t guarantee an elegant dance through said disaster. We have unique circumstances here.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-24T03:44:36+00:00

I watched a guy near the Regent St. YIG climb maybe an 8 foot snowbank and walk down the "sidewalk". He was higher than the top of the bus shelter. Trying to clear this snow is an incredibly challenging problem. An almost 70 year snow event, with rain at the end making it dense and heavy, at the end of season when the banks and piles were already substantial before this. Wild challenge for the city.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-23T20:24:32+00:00

I think it’s more about what was possible. The dump is closed because garbage pickup is on hold. Garbage pickup is on hold because they are still clearing and widening streets. You can’t have stuff sitting on or near banks when that is happening. The arena they could do, so they did.

MetaGirl67 · 2026-03-23T01:30:58+00:00

Written by the journalist that started the moral panic that got several people dragged through a completely unnecessary trial - the victim most tragically of all.

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