I have heard that Mayor-Elect Rybak wants to go with a 24-Hour snowplowing system. Does anyone know how this will work? Also, I recall former Council Member Steve Minn had suggested a different method of snow removal. Does anyone recall the Minn system and how it would differ from the Rybak system or the current system?
I do not know what the Rybak plan is. But the previously proposed plan would work this way. As soon as a snow emergency was declared, the city would begin plowing. They would plow all the streets, curb to curb, doing north/south and then east/west. The reason why the plan wasn't instituted is that the Mayor did not want to spend the money to install signage. The estimated cost to sign all the streets was $1 million. There was a lot of opposition even on the Council because a lot of members didn't like the idea that more signs would be installed. If you don't sign, then you cannot tag cars, so the signage becomes important.
Karen Collier
Linden Hills
