A Kamloops councillor says streets crews have done a fantastic job clearing roads after repeated heavy snowfall events.

Speaking on the NL Morning News, Mike O’Reilly says the city’s mandate is to clear arterial routes within 4 hours after a snowfall, and secondary routes within 16 hours.

Meanwhile, to clear residential streets like cul de sacs, the city’s mandate is to clear roads within 36 hours after a snow event ends.

“So staff is doing what council has asked them to do. Quite frankly, we can do anything we want as a council, but we have to balance with what the tax increase would be. And we did increase it and add three snow plow drivers last year. So we did make a significant investment and we’re going to see how that plays out this year,” O’Reilly says.

“In the situation – it’s always situational – I think they did a fantastic job. You can only do so much with what you have. We could’ve thrown $5 million dollars at one day yesterday and it still would’ve been trouble. Council has set our goals of what we want to see done, but our number one is our arterial routes.”

Four centimetres of snow fell at the Kamloops Airport yesterday according to Environment Canada, but that amount was drastically more in higher-elevation areas of the city.