Crew has been out salting and sanding citywide. Plowing has been more of a challenge with chunks of ice and colder temperatures. Thanks for reporting.

If the Yaleies that leave their cars for weeks on end on the street would pay attention long enough to assist in snow removal it would not be a problem If the city even ticketed these cars- some which I have seen in the same place for a month- MAYBE they would comply.

YOUR GIGANTIC SNOW PLOWS C R E A T E D THE PROBLEM - YOU CAME BUSTING THROUGH THE STREET WITH YOUR PLOW ANGLES TOWARDS DRIVEWAYS AND INTERSECTION/CORNERS - MAKING A BAD SITUATION w o r s e!!!! NOW MAYBE YOU'LL A BIT CONSIDERATE NOW THAT WE KNOW YOUR NASTY LITTLE GAME !

OK - SO YOU ACKNOWLEDGED - BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ?

@ Bad Roads- I sympathize with your frustration, but welcome to New Haven- this is nothing new. Things have improved immensely from the Blizzard and PW does the best they can given the conditions- below freezing temperatures for days and weeks on end are not helping. Be glad the roads are clear - some areas are still sheets of ice. They have been addressing complaints on a priority basis and some areas are much worse than others. I don't know where you have lived before, but I have been in CT for 40 years and have never seen any town not plow to the sides of the street (except of course the bliz). Driveway shoveling you always do more than once.
P.S- yelling won't make it any better. Be patient and eventually things will get better.

East Rock is a mess, mainly because of the people who flat out refuse to move their cars in advance of a storm. New Haven has limited resources, the past few winters have been incredibly difficult and have strained the PW budget, combine that with a whiny, insufferable and uncooperative public and you have a toxic mix of blame. If tickets are issued, people flood the city with complaints, if cars are towed, the same, if no one bothers to take personal responsibility and move their cars, rinse and repeat...

Every snow emergency the city makes low or no cost parking available downtown, every snow emergency I see cars unmoved and buried on the WRONG side of the damn road and every snow emergency people flock the see-click-bi*** to ache and complain about the city's poor response. Part of YOUR civic dity is to pay attention to the weather and move your damn car, OR walk down the street and knock on your neighbor's doors and get them to MOVE THEIR DAMN CARS!

You live in a highly populated area, in a downtown district with already incredible narrow streets, unless you can somehow suspend the laws of physics and make those streets larger or create a black hole all the displaced snow can move in to there will be snow blocking the road, there is no two ways about it. If you do not get your neighbors to move their cars there will be MORE SNOW blocking and narrowing the road.

Every street needs to take responsibility and preemptively follow common sense precautions and get the street clear and keep it that way until the emergency is over. But of course that would require talking to your neighbors and we have the government to do that for us.

I will be driving around tonight and will be posting pictures of cars still parked on the wrong side of the street on random streets in east rock and I will be calling out those who break the law, if people put in as much energy complaining about the city not doing its job and get out en force and make their neighbors responsible and keep them honest, there would be little or no need for this crap.

Yes, residents need to move their cars when there is a parking ban. Unfortunately, people don't follow it and that is part of the problem...but for the areas where there were no cars (because they were moved from the odd side of the street as instructed) the snow was not moved. It is still there.
Starting the parking ban at midnight last Thursday instead of 6 PM, and posting no parking signs on the odd side of the street that night may have been more effective.

YOU ARE CORRECT - SO NOW DO YOU THINK THE CITY WILL IMPROVE THEIR RESPONSE DURING THE NEXT STORM - THE GRADE FOR LAST STORM WAS D-

Don't blame- you are correct- the general public is half the problem and the other half is the city doesn't follow through when it can and should. It takes 2 as they say. I like your idea of a black hole.
I encourage all residents to call the NHPD to report abandon autos that are covered in snow and request they get red tagged. If anything. Leave a call back number and insist that you are informed of the action taken if any- we need to start keeping city departments accountable for their in-actions.
If the city actually plowed where there where people actually moved their cars residents would be more apt to do it again- I for one have given up after three times moving my car and still they don't plow.
PLEASE STOP HIRING THESE LAME #$#%% CONTRACTORS IN PICK UP TRUCKS WHO DON'T EVEN USE THERE PLOWS then maybe we could get a street cleared.

We are closing snow issues and directing our attention to "street sweeping". We will review all snow issues in order to improve next year's snow removal planning and response. Thanks for your feedback and patience. To read about "street sweeping" please follow this link:
http://cityofnewhaven.com/PublicWorks/sweep/index.asp