A growing city has meant a growing to-do list for the city's snow removal teams and transportation workers.

City council heard two reports at Monday evening's standing committee meeting on updates of snow and ice removal and transportation maintenance policies.

Jim McLeod, the city's public works manager, presented council with several maps outlining road changes, including the 2008 Hamilton Boulevard extension project.

'We've gone from 488 kilometres of road coverage to 520.9 kilometres for 2008,' he said.

The additional road coverage for snow and ice removal alone will expand that budget about 11 per cent, McLeod said.

The annually-updated 2008 Snow and Ice Control Policy makes no changes to city sidewalks, but does see the snow dump at the current end of Hamilton Boulevard moved to the Copper Ridge Reservoir.

The updated policy also sees road additions in the new Whitehorse Copper, Raven Ridge, Wolf Creek North and Fox Haven subdivisions.

The policy outlines that whenever there is a snowfall in the city, snow removal teams follow four priority clearing areas.

First come freeways, major roadways, emergency and bus routes and roads with steep grades.

Second come the remainder of major roads, industrial roads, and roads adjacent to schools and city services.

Third comes the remainder of city roads and fourth come city-owned parking lots. The policy also stipulates that snow removal teams will only stop working if emergency conditions arise, or if the temperature is below -35 C.

Blaker Place, Akusru Way and part of War Eagle Way have been added as second-priority roadways.

The new roads are also reflected in the annually-updated Transportation Maintenance Policy, which was also presented before council Monday evening.

The report says road maintenance work is carried out in an identical road priority system and is used for snow clearing and removal.

Road maintenance includes pothole patching, crack sealing and large pavement patching. Traffic control is also in charge of street sweping, storm sewer maintenance, sidewalk maintenance, and traffic control systems maintenance, which includes parking meters and street lights.

The changes to this year's document see the Hamilton Boulevard extension as a priority one roadway.

New to the priority two list are Blaker Place in Wolf Creek North, and roads in Whitehorse Copper, Fox Haven and Raven Ridge subdivisions.

Maps presented of the new Hamilton Boulevard Extension show another roundabout where it will intersect with Robert Service Way and Lobird Drive.

McLeod said a set of traffic lights will go up where the extension crosses the Alaska Highway. This prompted some questions from city councillors.

Coun. Jeanine Myhre asked whether any accident prevention measures would be enacted at the new traffic lights.

'Since it's pretty much the same thing as Two Mile Hill and the highway, where there are a lot of accidents, is that our responsibility or YTG's?'

McLeod answered the intersection is shared.

'We look after the signalization, everybody sands it,' he said.

Coun. Jan Stick echoed Myhre's sentiments, saying she is concerned about safety but is glad there are road signs warning drivers of the intersection's high rate of accidents.

'It's an ongoing problem with accidents there. It is probably a lot of human error, but (the signs) certainly seem to remind drivers the intersection has a lot of accidents.'

Clive Sparks, the city's acting director of operations, said he would check with the engineering department and get back to council about whether similar considerations with respect to signs would be paid with the Hamilton Boulevard Extension.