A blast of winter meant a busy day for city crews Thursday, as they sanded and salted huge swaths of Winnipeg including icy bridges. But there's a new item on the winter storm to-do list that's still being completed, thanks to a change in the city's traffic lights. "Traffic signal lights at some intersections throughout the city ... have become partially obscured by snow frozen to the lens," a city spokesperson wrote in an email Saturday. "Over the years, the city has replaced traffic signal bulbs with LED bulbs which are not as hot and do not melt the snow as the previous bulbs did." Winnipeg police say the weather conditions resulted in crashes involving 97 vehicles at 15 different locations across the city, including on 14 different bridges.

Source: CBC News October 28, 2017 18:33 UTC