More snow headed for Toronto as storm clean-up expected to last days

A person tries to dig his truck out from the snow after a significant snow storm in Mississauga, Ont., on Monday, January 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Toronto’s snow-clearing operations will final up till a minimum of the top of the week as the town expects to get extra snow Tuesday night time.

Metropolis officers informed reporters at a information convention on Tuesday that the city-wide clean-up was nonetheless at its early levels. In the meantime, Surroundings Canada reported that the town can count on two extra centimetres of snow tonight.

“It's important to do the plowing first after which start the snow elimination and it's one thing that's going to take time. It is a storm that ranks among the many largest in latest historical past within the metropolis,” Mayor John Tory mentioned on Tuesday.

“Work is ongoing 24 hours a day till the job is finished. Six-hundred street plows, 200 salt truck, 360 sidewalk plows are out.”

The mayor mentioned plowing will largely proceed into tomorrow, and the remainder of the week will concentrate on snow elimination.

 Toronto Mayor John Tory declared a “main snowstorm situation” after the blizzard struck Toronto and different areas of southern Ontario on Monday.

“This was an enormous storm with a considerable amount of snow, an enormous storm within the historic context. So it's going to take an enormous clean-up effort and that is going to take a while,” Tory mentioned on Tuesday.

The mayor mentioned that some snow plows are going through challenges as a consequence of parked and deserted vehicles on metropolis roads. The Metropolis of Toronto has acknowledged that it prohibits parking on designated snow routes for the following 72 hours, on the threat of fines or towing so as to enable snowplows to clear the roads.

Visitors on main highways and roadways in Toronto and throughout the Better Toronto Space remained snarled on Tuesday, together with Freeway 401, as a consequence of autos caught in mounds of snow.

The TTC has acknowledged that about 300 or 400 buses have been nonetheless caught within the snow round Toronto on Tuesday. Service has been lowered on the transit community.

Toronto District College Board (TDSB) and the Toronto Catholic District College Board declared a snow day on Tuesday.