Mayor Adrian Fenty will adopt a different approach to removing snow from District streets after a winter storm – one that places a bigger emphasis on residential streets instead of putting them on the back burner until the main roads have been plowed. The Washington Post’s copy editors get a gold star for dubbing this plan “No Street Left Behind”.

The basic idea behind Fenty’s new snow removal plan is to send out two teams of snow plows (and yes, the city has reportedly purchased a bunch more of them to make this possible), one that cleans the main arterial roads, and another that starts on residential streets right away. It’s different from the way most other Mid-Atlantic cities approach plowing, but seemingly the only real down side, assuming Fenty can pull it off, is that it will just cost more to do each time.

Who knows if we’ll even get to see how this might work this winter or not, given recent weather forecasts, but what do you think of the mayor’s new plan to remove snow from all city streets, all at once?

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