St. Petersburg has been actively clearing the city of snow for several days now. Road workers are gradually paving the way for motorists, public transport and pedestrians. As RosBalt was told by the Committee for the Improvement of the Administration of St. Petersburg, heavy morning traffic does not allow the snow to be quickly removed – now it is being moved to the edges of the road in order to return at night and remove it completely. The day before, 31 thousand cubic meters of snow were sent for disposal.
Since the impending winter cyclone was known in advance, city services managed to prepare for the snowfall and are now working in enhanced mode. When cleaning, priority attention is paid to embankments, overpasses, sidewalks, pedestrian crossings and approaches to educational and healthcare facilities. To ensure the safety of all road users, road surfaces are treated with anti-icing agents.
As noted in the improvement committee, today the city highways are cleaned by 884 cars and 933 manual workers. Paths and areas in parks, squares, and boulevards are tidied up by 981 specialists and 289 tractors and trucks from gardening enterprises.
“For Thursday, weather forecasters promised good snow and difficult conditions, so we ask residents to be careful and mutually polite, and equipment and janitors will definitely come to everyone, systematically cleaning street after street. We remind you that the committee has an on-call service 24 hours a day; by calling 314-60-13 you can ask a question or leave a request,” the improvement committee said in a statement.
Let us recall that earlier the Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, suggested that entrepreneurs and company managers transfer employees whose functionality does not require mandatory presence at the workplace to a remote form of work. He also called on motorists to reduce the number of trips around the city to the necessary minimum, and even better, to switch from personal transport to public transport. Those who are unable to do this for some reason are asked by road workers to pay attention to the signs and park their cars according to the schedule indicated on them, so as not to interfere with the work of the cleaning equipment.
Source: Rosbalt
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