قد تتخيل أن إزالة الثلوج في مدينة بحجم ميسيسوجا مهمةٌ جسيمة. فمع كل تساقط للثلوج، تُملّح المدينة وتُرمّل وتُزيل ما يلي:
To accomplish this task, the City deploys more than 800 snow clearing vehicles. Every snowfall is different, but our team is always ready to adapt and respond.
The plan
How the City clears snow, and how long it takes.
The time it takes to clear a particular street depends on the amount of snowfall and whether it is a primary or secondary route. The following table shows the City's service standards for the time it takes to salt and clear roads from the end of a snowfall.
| نوع الطريق | < 5 سم | 5 - 15 cm | 15 - 30 cm | > 30 سم |
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| الطرق والأرصفة الرئيسية | Salted - 12 hrs | 12 ساعة | 24 ساعة | > 24 ساعة |
| الطرق الثانوية والشوارع المجاورة | Salted - 24 hrs | 24 ساعة | 36 ساعة | > 36 ساعة |
If your street has not been cleared, first check the standard service times above. Our snow team will not record requests for missed streets until our service deadlines have passed.
كيف تقوم المدينة بإزالة الثلوج
إليكم معاييرنا وإجراءاتنا لإزالة الثلوج:
12 hours
to salt main roads and sidewalks after a snowfall of under 5 cm.
Clean and Passable Street – upscaled
Secondary roads are cleared to be safe and passable.
Our snow team will not record requests for missed streets until our service deadlines have passed.
Your street
Driveways, sidewalks and parking after a snowfall.
A windrow is the pile of snow a plow leaves at the end of your driveway when it goes by. That snow has been called a windrow historically because it looks like the rows farmers leave between their fields to prevent the wind blowing their soil away.
New for the 2025-2026 snow season, the City offers a windrow clearing program for all residents of detached, semi-detached and town homes on public streets.
The program is not designed to clear snow the same way that residents might when clearing driveways. It is designed as a driveway access program to ensure people, particularly those who lack the ability to clear a snow plow row, can get in or out of their driveways. More specifically, it has the following restrictions:
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Windrow clearing must necessarily be done after street plowing. Windrow clearing can take up to six hours after plowing or longer with the heaviest snow falls. Residents requiring faster access should prepare accordingly.
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The service is dependent on their being a location to put the snow. Some townhouse residents, residents on sharp inside curves and residents at the ends of cul-de-sacs may have limited options for the placement of snow by heavy equipment.
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The service is not available for apartment buildings or commercial properties.
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Lower boulevard parking, street-parked cars, waste bins or other obstacles prevent crews from accessing some driveways.
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Snow crews are instructed to create a 3-metre wide clearing equivalent to one driveway lane. While crews may clear wider spaces, this will not always occur. Residents will have to clear wider openings themselves.
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When there is limited space to move snow, crews may leave a greater pile of snow on a portion of the driveway while providing 3-metres of access.
The following is the City's windrow clearing service schedule:
| Amount of Snow | < 5 سم | 5 - 15 cm | 15 - 30 cm | > 30 سم |
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| Time from Last Required Plowing of Street | Not Required | 4 hrs | 6 hrs | > 6 hrs |
تنظيف الأرصفة
يبلغ طول أرصفة مدينة ميسيسوجا 2400 كيلومتر. منها 1700 تم تحديد كيلومترات كأرصفة ذات أولوية. Priority sidewalks are located on arterial, residential and industrial collector roads, transit routes; and, on roadways having school, nursing home and hospital frontage. تتمتع الأرصفة ذات الأولوية، إلى جانب محطات الحافلات ومعابر المشاة، بنفس الجداول الزمنية للإنجاز التي تحظى بها الطرق ذات الأولوية.
Clearing of secondary sidewalks is a new service for the 2025-2026 snow season.
Please ensure vehicles and other obstacles that could block City sidewalk plows are removed from their path.
For issues about the quality or timing of City sidewalk clearing or to report damage caused by a sidewalk plow, please see 'How we can help' below.
موقف السيارات
تجنب ركن سيارتك في الشارع عند تساقط الثلوج. فالسيارات المتوقفة تمنع البلدية من رش الملح على الطرق وإخلائها لسيارات الطوارئ ووسائل النقل العام والسكان.
قد يتم تعليق تصاريح وقوف السيارات المؤقتة في أي وقت أثناء تساقط الثلوج، وذلك لتمكين المدينة من فتح الطرق بأمان. كما لن يُصدر الموظفون أي تصاريح وقوف سيارات مؤقتة جديدة خلال هذه الفترة. لمعرفة ما إذا تم تعليق تصريح وقوف السيارات المؤقت الخاص بك، تابعنا على تويتر @MississaugaSnow أو اتصل على 311.
فتاتان على الرصيف الثلجي
Sidewalks are part of the job too.
Contact our office
Getting help
Track the plows, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Want to see where our snowplows are and the status of your street? Check our snowplow tracker map. We track our snowplows, salt trucks and sidewalk plows. You can see where our plows are located and when we last serviced your road. The accuracy of the tracker has been improved this year.
كيف يمكننا المساعدة
Mistakes can happen. Each snowplow operator clear dozens of streets, and it is easy for something to happen on one street or in front of one home. It is a difficult job with demanding hours -- and sometimes little thanks. Overall, we have every confidence in our snow team, and they will work to correct any issue when appropriate. Please have some patience though, if you have read this summary thus far, you know that clearing our streets after a major snowfall is huge task that takes some time. Our snow team is working as quickly, but also as safely as they can.
If you have an issue with snow clearing on your street, contact our 311 team by phoning 311 or emailing public.info@mississauga.ca. On average, 311 can help you more hours of the day and more quickly than a Councillor's team can. Also, when you contact 311, your request gets statistically tracked with all other calls so that recurring issues can be identified and addressed even more quickly.
You are always welcome to call the Councillor's office, but the best time to do that is when something cannot be resolved by 311 and you think we should know. Please know, that despite the senior role a Councillor has at the City, Councillors will not jump the queue on your behalf. We are here to assist with the process -- not bypass it.
أضرار المحاريث
إذا تضررت حديقتك أو شارعك بسبب جرافة رصيف أو شارع، يمكنك الإبلاغ عن الضرر على الرقم 311. سيحضر أحد أعضاء فريقنا المتخصص في إزالة الثلوج لمعاينة العقار. وحسب حالة الثلج، قد يتم ذلك بسرعة أو يتأخر حتى يذوب الثلج. يمكنك تسريع العملية بإرسال الصور عبر البريد الإلكتروني إلى الرقم 311 إن أمكن.
عادةً ما تقع تكاليف الإصلاحات على عاتق مقاول كاسحات الثلوج لدينا. ستبدأ أعمال الإصلاح في الربيع بمجرد توفر العشب من الموردين المحليين.
يرجى ملاحظة أنه لا يُسمح لك برفع العناصر على جزء الشارع من ممر سيارتك، ولن يتم تغطية الأضرار التي تلحق بالميزات مثل أرصفة الممر أو العلامات.
Here's to good weather
Most of us like a little bit of snow, but almost all of us agree that we often get too much. Canadian winters can be long, but we can make winter a little bit brighter by helping each other through it. And better weather always comes -- sooner or later.
Where to get help
Track the plows
See where the plows are and when your street was last cleared.
Call 311
Report a missed street once the service deadline has passed, or damage from a plow.
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