UPDATE: Residents can resume on-street parking with snow routes in the city no longer active. The city activated the snow routes Thursday, January 11th with the parking restrictions going into effect Friday, January 12th morning.
Snow routes in the City of Lethbridge are in effect as of Thursday morning, giving residents 24 hours to move vehicles that are parked on streets along the active route or risk being ticketed.
The snow route went into effect at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, January 11th and remain in place until the city announces otherwise. Vehicles left parked along the snow route at 9:30 a.m. Friday, January 12th while the routes are in place and crews are doing snow removal work could be ticketed.
According to the city, “Alternative parking includes driveways, rear parking pads and along streets that are not part of a snow route.”
Snow routes are put in place to help city crews safely conduct snow removal on city streets. Snow routes and parking restrictions can be identified with a blue snowflake on signs along city streets. City crews start snow removal operations on priority roads once the snow starts to fall.
Residents can see real-time progress on where city snow plows are on the snow plow tracker website.