Happy summer! Boston is already preparing for next winter.
After a record-high 110.6 inches of snow crippled the city last winter, officials are getting prepared for the next one. With giant snowblowers.
Yes, the technology you use on your driveway will soon be in use by the Public Works Department on a much larger scale.
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The city announced that two truck-mounted snowblowers (or “L90 Volvo loaders with LaRue D55 blowers,’’ to be precise) cost $645,000 and will be built in 90 days — well in advance of whatever snowfall this winter is planning to drop on us, according to a press release.
Blowers like these are currently used in Montreal, which, as Boston.com pointed out in February, is a model of snow-removal efficiency.
A spokesperson told Boston.com that there are “no plans’’ to give the new blowers colorful names like other legendary local snow removal machines SNOWTRON and Snowzilla.
Photos: MBTA woes from last winter
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