Saskatoon weather: City says residential snow clearing not yet justified [Video]

The City of Saskatoon has chosen not to activate its roadways emergency response plan despite a weekend of heavy snowfall reaching the 25-centimetre threshold.

“We recognize that there there’s a lot of snow out there,” said Goran Saric, roadways, fleet & support with the City of Saskatoon.

“And driving conditions, especially on local street side streets are challenging still. But every day I think we are seeing some improvements with mobility. And for that reason, this decision to activate the roads emergency response plan hasn’t been made because, based on the assessments, the criteria consisting of these two factors haven’t been fully met.”

Classes were cancelled for all of the Saskatoon public and Catholic school divisions, as well as the Prairie Spirit School Division.

Monday classes were still on for students at Saskatchewan Polytechnic and at the University of Saskatchewan, though some individual faculties may have delayed or cancelled class …