It Has Come to This: Mapping Snow Removal
A reader dropped a line to say he’d set up a map where anyone can type in whether or not a block has been plowed yet. Check it out here and add your own notes. As of the writing of this post, the handful of “failure to remove snow” tags were in or around the…
A reader dropped a line to say he’d set up a map where anyone can type in whether or not a block has been plowed yet. Check it out here and add your own notes. As of the writing of this post, the handful of “failure to remove snow” tags were in or around the Slope. For example, one reads: “Garfield Place impassable.” As City Room reported a couple hours ago, the mayor is saying that it will probably take another day for all the city’s streets to be plowed.
Mapping Snow Removal in Brooklyn [Official Site]
That is classic! They need more maps like this around the country – Buffalo and Cleveland come to mind. Maybe Chicago too. I’ve never been to NYC in the winter, but I’m sure its a slushy mess on the streets. The problem is most city and county governments simply don’t plan ahead enough and usually don’t make it a top priority until it’s too late.
Jay
Snow Removal Cleveland
As someone posted elsewhere, if Mayor Bloomberg could shovel snow as well as he shovels bullshit, our streets would have been totally clear already. The man has no shame whatsoever. The city’s response this time has been piss poor, not simply “not up to what we should expect” (or words to that effect). It should make NYer’s wonder about ALL of the bullshit (school improvements, police stats, City Time) that city hall professes to have made. Emperor WIndbag should face a recall vote.
This is definitely our Katrina.
I’m loving the quiet. And the clean air!
Seriously? A bag of rock salt and (if I had a shovel) I’d do it in five minutes. How can you be a business owner and not do it? How can you be the MTA and not think of it? Why wasn’t this ever so much of an issue in any blizzard before? I don’t get it.
Also, wondering about the lack of coverage here. Internet outage?
I understand it takes time. But like Sparafucile, I also rely on the B and Q and this is absurd. Now they say the plows can’t clear the train tracks because they will damage the third rail. WTF? As for street clearing, here in DP, my street, not a major thoroughfare, got one pass from a plow this afternoon but none of the other streets in my ‘hood have been touched. I just wish Bloomberg would get up there and say “Wow! We really dropped the ball on this. It’s a mess out there. Forgive us and we’ll get it cleaned up as soon as we can” instead of his lily livered protestations that the city is doing what it always does.
Wait, this is all the posting we get on bstoner today? I’m a bit surprised.
What shocked me, heading to Greenpoint was that no on had salted the subway steps. I saw platforms (I’m looking at you, Lafayette/Fulton C train) where snow and ice encrusted the entrance to the trains, and no one — I mean no one — has bothered to shovel any pedestrian paths at the curbs. Fulton Street BID? Isn’t this like, part of your job? Parts of Fulton are great. Parts at the corners? Not so much. And how is that the hard part?
what is worse, lame duck final term or lame duck first term?
This storm is Bloomberg’s Katrina. Too bad he is also in a lame duck final term just like GWB.