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Mayor Asleep at Wheel (An Un-ploughed-y Day)
Lord, they tell me of an un-ploughed-y day . . .
I left home around 8 am, this morning and the snow was falling, and when I came home this afternoon around 4:30, pm, the snow was still falling, and the streets of Mt. Hope remained unploughed.
I climbed up Cypress Street in my pick-up, which has 4 wheel drive, and I passed, probably, 6 vehicles stuck in the unploughed snow on that steep hill, which was nigh impossible to navigate without 4 wheel drive. When I arrived at the steep hill that I live on I was not surprised to find that it too had not been ploughed.
This late winter storm had been well forecast, and I can't understand why our Mayor did not have our City well prepared. There is no excuse for such poor city services.
Steep hills unploughed and unsanded? Citizens stranded in their cars on their way home from work? Shame, shame, shame.
You can tell Mayor Cicilline what you think via email, just click on his name.
Or tell the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services Director, Rita Murphy what you think by clicking on that link.
But best of all you can tell the man directly responsible for cleaning our streets, DPW's John Nickelson, Director, 700 Allens Avenue, Providence, RI 02905, Phone: (401) 467-7950. Ironically, we cannot contact the DPW through the City's website. How 'bout that!
An old gospel song came to mind today, An Uncloudy Day, but morphed in my mind to An Un-ploughed-y Day. Good Lord!
Posted at March 16, 2007 03:04 PM
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From the perspective of my immediate neighborhood, the City did a pretty good job of snow removal during last week's storm. Not for the sake of argument but for explication I'll explain that I live in the section of Mt. Hope closest to College Hill. I had to drive up Olney, which is almost as steep as Cypress, a little after five o'clock, and the street appeared to have been recently plowed and sanded. It was slow going, but I made it without 4-wheel drive.
It could be that different neighborhoods get different levels of service from the City and that could account for the different experiences driving up Cypress or up Olney. The streets around me were cleared pretty well, including Hope and Olney.
But I certainly do sympathize with those who got stuck on Cypress on their way home.
Posted by: James at March 21, 2007 11:51 AM
I was one got caught on cypress and could n't get home, it was no picnic believe you me. I pay all my taxes to them governmet bastads and they give it all awaya to the illegal alieans and the welfair mothers and there furniture and more money for each illigit chile they get, while I work for nothing but getting stuck on the snow on the way home form work and they wil take my house for tax before they plow the strreet. So I'm suspposed to think all positive about this gay asskissing mayor who do anythiang for a vote. yeah right mr. mayor, plow them fuckin streets first, un huh, then ask for our vote, do yuh think we'r stupid or something?.
Posted by: Lois E. at March 18, 2007 10:58 PM