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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 08:08 am (UTC)great toys for walking on those hazardous streets/etc.
having been in the city last nite, i even contemplate shoving a spot so i can park in a primo location, i did get there early enough with my car, and had a shovel. the big question arose: where am i going to put it, that doesn't annoy someone? not the street. not on another parking spot, not on the actually clear sidewalk, throwing over the sidewalk into what is effectively someone's yard or garden probably a nono and even more backbreaking.
in order to do any more plowing, even tough ups, it's going to cost a lot of money. snow removal (trucking it out) will cost a HUGE amount. they used to do that, and dump it in the bay. i understand one of the reasons they stopped is the cars they accidentally dumped too :) well, and pollutants. so, where can they put it? it's practically hazardous waste once on the ground.
tricky stuff.