WATCH ABOVE: City road crews are working non-stop following the latest wallop of winter in Edmonton. As Kendra Slugoski reports, a parking ban has been declared.
EDMONTON — The seasonal parking ban in Edmonton, which came into effect Friday night, has been lifted. The ban came to an end at 6 p.m. Sunday.
“Crews will assess the level of the snow pack in neighbourhoods on Monday morning, and a decision will be made at that time whether or not a neighbourhood blading cycle is required,” the City of Edmonton said in a news release Sunday afternoon.
The city announced its second seasonal parking ban of the year following a massive snowfall, which delivered roughly 10 centimetres of fresh snow by Friday morning.
Several area highways were in terrible condition on Thursday. Edmonton police advised motorists to avoid downtown all together due to poor winter driving conditions. McDougall and Bellamy hills were both closed for a period of time during the evening commute because vehicles were stuck on both hills.
“We were out on the hills right through the rush hour. It came down to a matter of trying to keep them sanded and we had trucks going around and around on those hills,” said Bob Dunford, the city’s director of roadway maintenance.
“But even with the sanding, you get that volume of traffic with the snow and all it takes is one or two vehicles to spin out and it brings traffic to a crawl.”
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Edmonton police responded to 85 collisions between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. Thursday. Of those, 65 involved property damage, 14 were hit-and-runs and six involved injuries.
The situation was a slightly better during the morning commute, with 65 collisions between 6 and 11 a.m. Friday. Of those, 48 involved property damage, 11 were hit and runs and three resulted in injuries.
Catch up on Thursday’s Alberta winter storm live blog below:
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*Editor’s note: This story was originally published Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. It was updated at 4:23 p.m. Sunday to include information about the end of the ban.
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