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I am outraged to hear that the city has declared snow removal complete. Neither the odd nor even side of Foster have been cleared to the curb. When the parking ban is lifted I believe the street will be impassable.
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I am outraged to hear that the city has declared snow removal complete. Neither the odd nor even side of Foster have been cleared to the curb. When the parking ban is lifted I believe the street will be impassable.
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Donald Harvey (Registered User)
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clarkstresident (Registered User)
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Display Name Blocked (17694) (Registered User)
Clark St. Please take a tour around the city and see what other neighborhoods look like. You may want to be careful making statements like that after seeing just how bad off other neighborhoods are as well.
I agree it is outrageous but down at the East rock side of East Street there were cars parked on the wrong side through the storm, and through all the parking bans, there was no enforcement, no tickets given and no cars or snow removed. After the storm there were cars parked on several streets in east rock on the wrong side even though alternate parking was available. The city always gets complaints when cars are ticketed or towed, try being the person at the city taking dozens of angry calls when people are towed legitimately, there are as many excuses for why people ignore signs as there are stars in the sky. I'm by no means absolving the city of its responsibility, but I am pointing out that a lot of residents did not make it any easier for them to do their jobs.
Display Name Blocked (17694) (Registered User)
Clark St. Please take a tour around the city and see what other neighborhoods look like. You may want to be careful making statements like that after seeing just how bad off other neighborhoods are as well.
I agree it is outrageous but down at the East rock side of East Street there were cars parked on the wrong side through the storm, and through all the parking bans, there was no enforcement, no tickets given and no cars or snow removed. After the storm there were cars parked on several streets in east rock on the wrong side even though alternate parking was available. The city always gets complaints when cars are ticketed or towed, try being the person at the city taking dozens of angry calls when people are towed legitimately, there are as many excuses for why people ignore signs as there are stars in the sky. I'm by no means absolving the city of its responsibility, but I am pointing out that a lot of residents did not make it any easier for them to do their jobs.
clarkstresident (Registered User)
I drove around other neighborhoods and thought we were the most neglected, which is why I made that statement. I for one can vouch that on all 3 nights the vast majority of the odd side of Clark street was completely empty. But wait, there wasn't any plowing done anyway, so why on earth would that matter? I'm not the only one frustrated with the ludicrous towing bans, lack of snow removal and basic neglect of the public works to clean up our streets.
Maybe you should think twice about making excuses for the City and push for some real change around here.
Love the spirited debate - maybe if our blood pressure gets high enough we can call for emergency vehicles to come help us and then they'll realize that there isn't enough room for them to get through.
Display Name Blocked (17694) (Registered User)
There were many streets around the hill that were barely passable, Westville too, those streets get far more traffic than most streets in East Rock. I make no excuses for the City, yes I feel the snow removal process from the beginning was severely lacking in organization and the timing was @#$% poor for announcing the initial parking ban, but the city only takes half the blame in this case. You can speak all you like for Clark street but walking around and later driving around ER streets (Mechanic, Pearl, Nash, and Orange just to name a few) parking bans were ignored routinely and when cars were towed legitimately there was much to gripe about by those who were towed.
In my opinion the ban should have started the night before the storm to give people plenty of time to find alternate arrangements, but people asked to move their cars because of something that might possibly happen always ends up being a nightmare for the city.
It's not at all making excuses, its about asking the residents who are complaining about the magic city fairy coming in and making everything alright and not being willing as a group to take the preemptive measures necessary, or being unable to pay more in the taxes that pay for all this very expensive, and in many cases privately owned equipment.
Everyone keeps forgetting that this storm was unprecedented in scope and the last time we had such a storm the city and state were shut down for two whole weeks.
Part of the problem is that we have much higher expectations for dealing with weather that is much more unpredictable, without a full understanding of what actually goes into the process and how uncooperative residents can make things so much harder for them to do their jobs.
listen, I'm just as angry that the streets aren't clear, just as upset at how some streets seemingly were overlooked and equally as frustrated with the many residents who couldn't be bothered to move their cars as they saw the storm approach, and were warned that it would be significant.
There are (at least) two sides to this story and more than enough blame to go around for the streets' current state.
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