The parking ban will be in effect for more than a dozen streets in the Halifax Regional Municipality overnight in an effort to tackle the mountain of snow that is still piled through the city.

Crews will focus their efforts the following streets between 9 p.m. on Monday and 6 a.m. on Tuesday, cutting down snowbanks, removing the snow and helping to clear the lanes:

Spring Garden Road

Brenton‎ Place

Dresden Row

Birmingham Street

Argyle Street

Grafton Street

Gottingen Street

Portland Street

Downtown Dartmouth

Sackville Drive

Tiffany Chase, a spokeswoman for the municipality, said they have received some complaints about the amount of snow that is filling lanes, but crews are working as fast as they can.

Crews removed 75 truckloads of snow from downtown Dartmouth alone over the weekend, said Chase.

Chase said snow removal crews are being slowed by people parked in the streets. She said the city is asking people to park off the streets, even for those streets where the parking ban is not in effect.

"Additional equipment has been brought in to supplement the four municipal loaders, 40 street plows and 10 sidewalk plows that are currently deployed to haul away the snow," the city said in a statement.

"Crews are addressing problem areas by removing snow from cul-de-sacs, pushing back and removing snow banks and widening intersections and turning lanes. Crews are also focused on hauling snow away from blocked bus stops."

The municipality is asking people to report intersections where the high snow piles are creating dangerous conditions by calling 311.

Halifax Regional Police say there's a three-metre rule on narrow roads, meaning even if parking is permitted, a parked vehicle will be ticketed or towed if it leaves less than three metres of space on the road.

Fire trucks and emergency vehicles can't get around otherwise, said Const. Pierre Bourdages.