Is this true? I have bern begging for help for the mess we have on elizabeth ann drive. What do we do now! Thanks new haven for nothing.

The only streets I saw cleared were Canner St, Willow St, Livingston (but with a dangerous pile at the corner) Orange St (with many dangerous piles left at corners) and Humphrey St from Whitney to Pleasant. Pleasant to State was not touched, and a giant mountain that narrow Humphrey to one lane at the church near the gas station was left untouched. That Willow and Orange were cleared for obvious reasons - main roads with high use. But I wonder how the other streets were selected? And why so many others completely ignored...

Here on Nicoll Street we all adhered to the parking bans and awaited snow removal. Nothing. Some had to park far from their homes to prepare for the promised plows. How can the city be done with snow removal when we are still working with just one narrow lane and pedestrians are unable to see oncoming cars due to the high piles of snow?

Maybe because East Rock pays the most in taxes we're supposed to consider our civic contributions to be a charity to the poorer neighborhoods and not expect the City to do anything for us at all. Why again do we all live here, can someone remind me? They blatantly ignored our streets and yet still towed our cars. Its time to get angry.

It is pretty frustrating to jump though hoops to find a place for our cars for three nights with no results in East Rock. There were several cars parked in violation of the ban on the odd side with no repercussions, which since there was no plowing, I guess was appropriate. From my experience, I honestly did not expect the street to be plowed and if we were told that would be the case we could have taken other mesures. But after receiving at least 4-5 different messages each day and cars driving by with bull horns, one would think something might happen. Seems like a total lack of planning which is very disappointing.

We still have yet to get our street cleaned, just a bunch of bs from the snow removal line, even our alderman, but rest assured I will be diggin out the mound in front of my house today and parking on the street which will block access to the street on my end because there is so much snow on the odd side because no one came to clean. Maybe when people complain they can't get to their homes the city will send someone, i'm done!

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.

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.

MC,
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.

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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