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]
BoerumHill, this one isn’t different. That’s why the City’s abysmal response this time is so inexplicable. Maybe I just got spoiled by those previous competent snow removal efforts.
“Franklin Ave and St Johns Pl, a Sanitation plow has been stuck since early this morning. Yesterday no plows came through at all. EPIC FAIL”
You can’t bitch about plows not coming through and bitch about them getting stuck when they do.
seriously, people.
New yorkers want
+ low property taxes,
+ to cut wall streeters making big bonuses (a good source of tax revenue),
+ enhanced services
+ great schools with free lunches for all
Sanitation employees make a lot of OT on snow days (especially during holiday weekends). Our budget is ridiculously out of balance….
We should not be surprised that city services are not what they used to be and may never be…
“Feb 2010 ”
Untrue, BH. Feb 2010 was different, we had plows running down my block, and while it was a difficult storm, this time we’ve had ZERO PLOWS on my block in CH throughout. I can understand fewer plows, but ZERO plows? C’mon. Something is wrong.
the entitled crowd might stone you boerumhill.
To borrow from Kanye: Mike Bloomberg doesn’t care about Brooklyn people!
After 20+ inches, three to six days is normal (especially side streets).
Well, it was for the ’96 blizzard and the ’06 blizzard and the Feb 2010 blizzard.
Why is this one different?
Not only were many subway lines down, they posted status on the MTA website around 6am yesterday and didn’t update it until last night. Ridiculous. And their excuse that the train operators couldn’t get in??? Was this snow a surprise? Why weren’t they there already? And it the old days, if they didn’t show up in a weather emergency they got penalized big time. And why weren’t all trains running full force to keep the rails clear?? Ditto on the epic fail. Gross mismanagement. All those agency heads should be fired.
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Luckily, we pay a premium to live in NYC, so we don’t need a car. If I lived in the ‘burbs (and needed a car), I’d be pissed
My subway line (Brighton Q/B) hasn’t been in service for almost 48 hours. And I haven’s seen a plow in that same time.
So I’m pissed.