It Seems Everyone is Still Pissed About the Snow!
No doubt you’ve already seen the vid above, and it’s likely you’ve experienced in real life the hassles and, perhaps, destruction the blizzard caused. So the questions coming out of local blogs as well as the papers are: 1. Is this a case of straight-up class warfare, wherein Manhattan has been favored in terms of…
No doubt you’ve already seen the vid above, and it’s likely you’ve experienced in real life the hassles and, perhaps, destruction the blizzard caused. So the questions coming out of local blogs as well as the papers are: 1. Is this a case of straight-up class warfare, wherein Manhattan has been favored in terms of snow removal at the expense of outer boroughs such as Brooklyn? 2. Even if that’s true, isn’t that more or less business as usual? 3. At the most extreme end of the spectrum, can deaths be attributed to the fact that the city appears to have been unprepared for the blizzard? 4. And, finally, does Mayor Bloomberg deserve the bulk of the blame if one considers the city’s response lacking? Several City Councilpeople are definitely jumping on this bandwagon.
could Quinn make it any more obvious that she is running for mayor next time.
Am sure her district is just fine -but she is the one that gets quoted in media about poor snow cleanup. Such a panderer.
“One, the mayor should have declared a state of emergency to keep non-essential vehicles from clogging the roads”
The problem with this, as B’burg mentioned yesterday, is that it would have meant all the people parked on streets that get no-parking under snow emergency would have to immediately get into their cars and drive them somewhere else, and people driving seems like it was the sabot in the works.
It would have made sense to declare a snow emergency before the storm hit, perhaps. But I’m sure there was a back-and-forth about the folks who were out of town for xmas and would have all gotten towed. Especially if the storm had turned out to be not so bad.
And re the suv drivers; sure, and I feel like there are probably a fair share of macho jackasses driving them, but I’m equally certain that there were folks just trying to make it home from holiday stuff and got surprised and stuck the same as everybody else.
Sidewalks are definitely a problem, but again: some of these businesses are probably were down for the holidays and are now struggling with getting their staff in, which I’m sure contributes to the lack of sidewalk-clearing.
“It’s December 2010, and our street hasn’t seen a snowplow yet.
What does that tell you?”
It actually doesn’t tell me anything. Now, if you had a reason for why there was a difference, perhaps that would clear things up.
That storm that dropped 24 inches was a series of storms with a few hours of breaks in between, not a span of 12-16 hours of constant snow fall.
We don’t have the best snow removal trucks in this city. Majority of the plows are attacthed to garbage trucks. The snow plows I saw in the midwest are these enourmous trucks that could plow several garbage trucks at one time. LOL Those would have been perfect for this storm. They could push snow AND cars to the side of the road.
We still haven’t g otten mail. On MOnday and tues the snow on my street was still so high the cars looked like they were underwater. There was a emasurable difference in the response to this storm than to previous ones. Even the big 24 incher 3 years ago had plows out early on and druing the storm. The city simply seemed to ignore the storm warnings this time. Mt street was filled with people shovelling out the sidewalks and cars and even the middle of the street- But it was well nigh impassable for over 2 days.
The city screwed up big time on this- and then to find out their big concern was clearing out Times Square for New Years Eve- that doesn’t cut it in my book.
http://vimeo.com/18268743
I find the comparisons to Manhattan stupid. Manhattan gets a high influx of people daily for various reasons. When you start to see that same number of people in the outter boroughs for shopping, work, and various other activities, I can then see a point.
The silly comparison also fails to mention that residential side streets in Manhattan didn’t see plows until yesterday, like most other neighborhoods. Streets surrounding areas like Time Square, Union Square, Midtown East/West, Wall Street, etc. absolutely have to be cleaned first.
You’re supposed to start plowing and salting at the onset of a big storm and keep plowing throughout. It’s really quite simple. There’s no mystery to it. It just didn’t get done.
Agreed, WhiteStone: in fact, why doesn’t the city deploy meter maids [who aren’t actually enforcing anything post-storm] to go around and ticket businesses and homes that fail to shovel?
And if they must ticket a car along the way, how about a $500 fine for each of those morons who abandoned their vehicles in the middle of the street?
I found most drivers on Monday/Tuesday to be displaying a very Republican attitude: “I’m a self-reliant [SUV] driver who could care less about other people – that is, until I’m stranded. Then it’s time to cry bloody murder about the failure of government services!”
All the SUV’s that decided to go for a ride, then had no place to park once they were done should be towed away and a $2000 or more fine leveled against them before they can get it back.
On Clarkson btw Bedford and Rogers last night there were 8 buses stopped because some idiot left their SUV in the middle of the road. It looked parked, not stuck, as there was no sign of tires digging in and not getting out.
This morning 2 of those 8 buses were still there abandoned.
This is a main bus route going to major hospital.
The city is going to pay dearly for this circus of errors when the lawsuits over the deaths occurring come in.