Valleyguy said "Potholes have never been this bad in years, but city policies have changed. My residential street gets plowed once a year at about this time.Years ago it was done regularly.
The last few years dealing with snowfalls has been to get out the salt trucks and spread salt all over the city but not to plow the streets. Consequently all winter long we have a build up of brown sugar snow 4" to 5" deep on the streets which build up under cars and clings to mud guards and eventually destroying these mud guards. I have lost 2 of them over the last2 years, they are not cheap to replace. We may have a snow clearing budget but it is not used probably goes into some reserve fund.
So my suggestion is to remove the snow after most but not all snowfalls and not allow the brown sugar snow to build up. Curiously there is now a rush to remove snow during the melt because freeze thaws cause pot holes, so why not also during the winter. We need someone within the city employ to monitor what is going on and probably not whoever is doing it now. "
It says right in this article that the city spent 10% over budget on snow removal in 2023.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brandon-snow-clearing-potholes-1.7131588
So, it's not like they're swimming in extra snow cash.
As TheBrofessor says, pretty much every city in Canada (in all of North America, really) has way more roads than they can maintain. Obstinately, people will argue that our roads are paid for by collecting gas taxes, but a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that those funds, at best, cover 40-50% of the required funds just for maintenance. That's if we don't build anything new. So that difference is covered not by road users per se, but out of a different collective pocket.
The province spends over half a billion dollars a year on roads, not including anything the COB or the City of Winnipeg spends (which adds another $160-170 million dollars). That's an annual expenditure.