We got recent news that the snowgate petitions have been verified, and they are good. City clerk Hogstad will be making a presentation on Tuesday about it. Now it will be up to city council to call a date of an election. We are not sure where they are going with it, but they bascially have two choices. Spring 2013 or 2014. We hope they choose this Spring.
What is not clarified is if the Public Works department will test them properly this year. But we have been organizing a crew of volunteers to watch, video tape and photograph city snowplows using them. It’s 1984 all over again, except it’s the other way around.
I also have word that Henke (they make the Hi-Gate, the best snowgate in the business, that we are testing this year) is willing to come to SF and help the operators maximize their usage with free consulting. They also contend that after a snowplow operator is properly trained on the equipment they can run the plows up to 20 MPH.