Ever since I moved into the burbs about 5 years ago now, I notice that they keep running plow trucks on residential streets.....long AFTER all the snow is gone! Seriously, I just had a plow truck go by my house, scrapped all the nearly clean and dry asphalt. WTF? They do this every single freaking time.
I asked my buddy who works as an automation technician at the City and deals with these plows and the electronics behind lowering the plow and all that, and when I asked him about it a few years back, he told me, if I remember correctly, that once they set the routes, they have to do them, even if there is no snow, or that it's contracted out or something like that and has to be done. Everyone knows they do the primary routes first and eventually move to residential, but if the snow is gone by that point, wtf is the point of plowing nothing. This sounds to be like a major inefficiency that could save city thousands so that they aren't always crying about the god damn budget, and having no money left for street cleaning before winter even starts, and on top of that raise everyone's property taxes and give themselves a raise.
EDIT: Just as a posted this, another plow went by my house....the opposite direction...like wtf?