The cost of snow removal in much of Canada is a tremendous burden to
city councils and taxpayers here every winter. Each community has
fleet of specialized large trucks for plowing and sanding/salting
roads. This winter has been quite snowy with over 170 cm accumulation
so far. Whether cities have money in the coffers or not the white
stuff has to be cleared (you cannot wait for it to melt).

Citizens complain loudly if streets and sidewalks (what you call
pavements [here walking on the pavement gets you killed]) are not
cleared of snow in a prompt manner (yes, there are little specialized
plows for sidewalks). The snowbanks (also called snowbankings) are so
high this year that the sidewalk machines have to use a blower
attachment to remove over a metre of snow from their path.

Bob