Calgarians awoke to winter conditions after an overnight dump of snow in which temperatures dropped well below seasonal norms.
The Blue Line of the LRT is running on only one line through the west toward 69 Street S.W after a CTrain lost power just under Crowchild Trail.City workers and Enmax crews spent the morning working to get the train back in operation.
UPDATE: Severe Weather Event on EB Bow Tr b/w 26 St and 10 Ave SW, the left lane is closed EB from 26 St SW. The Bow Tr exit ramp onto 10 Ave is currently closed.Traffic city wide was affected by the dump of snow, with most roads heading into the downtown core backed up and moving slowly "We give ourselves 18 hours to get those priority one roads cleared. Once we've had them cleared and move into the priority two roads, that's a lot of the larger community roads, the bus routes, and we want them cleared within the next 18 hours," said Chris Hewitt, mobile operations manager with the City of Calgary.
The city says heading into this storm it had $31 million of its $54 million budget for snow clearing left for the 2023 fiscal year.
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