CHICAGO — Chicago neighbors have chosen six new names for the town’s snowplows within the third annual “You Identify a Snowplow” contest.
The Division of Streets and Sanitation revealed the successful names Tuesday at midnight after 1000’s of individuals forged their votes.
The brand new names are:
- Bozo the Plown
- Lollaplowlooza
- My Sort of Plow
- Snower Wacker
- Scoop, There It Is!
- Bean There, Plowed That
“The competition has turn out to be an annual custom,” Cole Stallard, Streets and Sanitation commissioner, stated in a press launch. “And annually metropolis workers has a good time tallying up the votes and seeing the winners.”
The competitors started with 50 finalists chosen from public submissions. Residents might vote for as much as six names by means of Jan. 21, with winners decided by fashionable vote.
Every successful identify will likely be displayed on a snowplow in one of many metropolis’s six snow districts. The inventive minds behind the successful submissions — decided by the earliest timestamp in case of ties — will obtain metropolis merchandise and a chance to {photograph} their named snowplow within the coming weeks, in keeping with the division.
Since its 2022 launch, the naming contest has introduced some character to Chicago’s winter operations. The newly named autos will be a part of a fleet of greater than 300 salt spreaders chargeable for sustaining 9,400 lane miles throughout winter storms. You’ll be able to monitor the plows, together with the freshly christened ones, by means of the town’s real-time plow tracker.
As Chicagoans brace for extra snow within the below-zero temperatures, the brand new names are certain so as to add some humor to the town’s winter season.
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