Providence has hired specialty industrial-strength snow blowers from Connecticut, and hopes to have a lane cleared on every city street by the end of the day, according to a city spokesman.
Josh Estrella, a spokesman for Mayor Brett Smiley, said that plans to pay nonprofits to organize volunteer shoveling efforts are also in the works.
Front-loaders and other heavy duty snow removal equipment from Vermont and a number of other Northeast states arrived in Rhode Island on Feb. 25, and are currently being used to speed up the snow removal effort around the state, including in Providence…