A City of Medicine Hat worker drives a street sweeper down Carry Drive in this 2019 file photo. The annual residential street-sweep program begins Monday.--NEWS FILE PHOTO
No-parking signs will be going up on side streets starting Monday as the annual residential road street sweeping program begins.
Cleaning up high volume and priority routes have been ongoing this spring, and this week cleaners begin moving in to 17 zones to pick up gravel and debris. This year’s program begins in the downtown then moves to Norwood, as zones are rotated each year. All communities should be completed by mid-May.
Transit change
City transit will expand the use of its evening “On Demand” transit service to Sundays on two routes in Crescent Heights starting May 9, the department announced Friday.
The service, which asks riders to book times and locations via a phone app or by traditional telephone, was initiated low-volume weekday evenings on set routes in northeast and northwest communities last September. It has since expanded to routes to the South Hill, Flats and hospital for evening services while administrators have said the effort saves operational costs and makes for quicker trips.
North-end riders will see the service in place Sundays from May 9 going forward.
House fire teardown
A demolition permit has been issued for a home of the community of Saamis that was badly damaged by fire in late September 2020, according to a report to the city’s planning commission.
The home, at 31 Sunrise Way, suffered smoke damage throughout and lost mush of its roof and main floor during the afternoon blaze. No one was home at the time, though a firefighter was injured after falling through the back deck.
Irrigation work
Crews will begin soon on replacing aging sprinkler lines in a portion of Hillside Cemetery starting next week as well as three cul-de-sac green spaces in Norwood, according to the city parks department.
