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davis_squareWhy was the snow removal process botched so horribly that plows weren't out at all on Sunday and many side streets weren't plowed at all until last night?
The result has been a nightmare. I just spent an hour and a half riding a bus to work that usually takes 10 minutes or maybe 20 on a bad day or of it rains. Cars are forced to crawl along, traffic backs up. The entire city becomes some sort of giant constipated nightmare vision from hell with noone getting anywhere and everyone wishing they were anywhere else but trapped in the bus/car they've been in way too long.
On top of this, while many people do a good job, a startling number of people and even businesses utterly fail to shovel their sidewalks.
What's up with that? I watched an elderly lady take a nose dive into a pile of muddy snow this morning because the Kwik Mart on Highland Ave barely shoveled at all (There's a narrow trench not even big enough to solidly put your foot down, much less walk normally).
I just don't get it. This is not rocket science. We live in New England and we get snow on a regular basis. The fact that we've been spoiled the last few years by wimpy winters shouldn't cause us to forget how to deal with the weather.
Grumph. Anyway, pardon my rant but it just seems too far out of whack not to speak up.
The result has been a nightmare. I just spent an hour and a half riding a bus to work that usually takes 10 minutes or maybe 20 on a bad day or of it rains. Cars are forced to crawl along, traffic backs up. The entire city becomes some sort of giant constipated nightmare vision from hell with noone getting anywhere and everyone wishing they were anywhere else but trapped in the bus/car they've been in way too long.
On top of this, while many people do a good job, a startling number of people and even businesses utterly fail to shovel their sidewalks.
What's up with that? I watched an elderly lady take a nose dive into a pile of muddy snow this morning because the Kwik Mart on Highland Ave barely shoveled at all (There's a narrow trench not even big enough to solidly put your foot down, much less walk normally).
I just don't get it. This is not rocket science. We live in New England and we get snow on a regular basis. The fact that we've been spoiled the last few years by wimpy winters shouldn't cause us to forget how to deal with the weather.
Grumph. Anyway, pardon my rant but it just seems too far out of whack not to speak up.
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Date: 2003-12-10 07:49 am (UTC)I just moved here from North Allston in September, and I am quite disappointed with Somerville's response to the storm. Little plowing, salting or sanding. I remember hearing plows at all hours going down my street (Easton) in Allston. In Somerville, who knows? Luckily, the residents have been pretty good about clearing (albeit narrow) paths down sidewalks, but, ugh, the roads.
Also, yes, in the standard rental lease, snow removal is the owner's responsibility, though when I lived in Allston my (absentee, awful, neglectful) landlords wrote it into the lease for us to do it. Not sure of the legality of that...
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Date: 2003-12-10 08:08 am (UTC)To me that's unclear because all the other responsibilities (kitchen, heat, etc) say explicitly "by the landlord" so it does seem there's nothing preventing the landlord assigning those duties to the tenant. If you can't get them to remove the clause, and you sign, you've agreed to do it.
If anybody knows differently, I'd love to hear it. I hate absentee neglectful landlords.
If anybody knows