Snow clearing from Edmonton residential roads 43% complete: city

Crews were busy plowing snow in residential areas in Edmonton on Jan. 12, 2026. (Jeremy Thompson/CTV News Edmonton)

Crews have completed clearing snow from almost half of Edmonton’s residential roads, the city said Friday morning in a media release.

The work during the two-week Phase 2 (residential) parking ban, which started Monday, has seen 43 per cent of neighbourhood streets cleared of snow, the city said.

Several unusual heavy snowfalls in December blanketed Edmonton, leaving side streets overrun by the white stuff, followed by warm temperatures this month that has made roads difficult to navigate by vehicle.

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Val Dacyk, the City of Edmonton’s general supervisor of ice and snow control, said crews “continue to make steady progress on residential roadways” and that they’re “on track” to complete work to clear them.

“Edmonton received a once-in-30-year snow event in December, which concluded with rain and snow two weeks ago and was followed by unseasonably warm temperatures,” Dacyk said in a statement.

Crews will continue to work until the parking ban is paused for the weekend at 7 p.m. on Friday. The ban will resume at 7 a.m. for the remaining neighbourhoods, with crews working 24 hours a day clearing snow.

The city said it will post neighbourhood clearing schedules online three days before it’s due to start. Schedules for the final remaining neighbourhoods should be posted no later than Wednesday afternoon.

The city said this week’s relatively warm weather helped crews clear more snow from residential roads. It said neighbourhoods with boulevards and more space to put snow are being scheduled first to help lessen the number of windrows created by plowing. Because of the warmer weather, the city used contracted graders instead of truck plows.

With the forecast calling for high temperatures below zero, clearing conditions will improve by letting crews level the snowpack – aiming for a five-centimetre base – in neighbourhoods where there is little space for windrows, the city said.

Crews are scheduled to begin clearing and removing snow from school zones on the evening of Jan. 23. They will perform the work on weekends, working around the clock over a three-to-four-week period.