Letter carrier blasts City of Kamloops over snow clearing
KAMLOOPS — Longtime letter carrier and city council candidate Bill Sarai is taking the City of Kamloops to task for failing to clear residential streets quickly enough.
He says the city is not fulfilling its mandate of sanding or plowing residential streets within 36 hours of the cessation of a snow storm.
“It’s not that I’m not pleased with the snow clearing abilities. City staff in my opinion, they’re awesome people, they take pride in their work,” he tells CFJC Today. “What I’m not pleased with is when we’re told — and I’ve been out there five days a week every winter for a long time — we see that the streets are not getting done in that 36 hour window.”
Sarai says he’s spoken to 100 letter carriers that deliver mail to every city block in Kamloops and says “there are streets that have not been touched as of today.”