Dennis in MA
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My street is pretty much one car width in July. You can barely get two cars by each other. The end of the street is a joke where it meet the main street. No way two cars can be there at the same time and the pile are so big you can't see on coming traffic until you are in it's path.
I might have left work a little early yesterday to clean it up because I like doing it. Dug out the fire hydrant too.
I sent a screenpic showing my wife's location shoveling the top of the snow mound at hte corner of Tremont and Worcester (which gets. . . . a few thousand cars a day) to my city councilor. It got fixed right quick. A couple of "do you realize that citizens are doing your job" makes people move a bit faster. It isn't great, but it's more workable.
I still don't get it. I can't believe the team that cleared everything so well in 2015 is just. . . retired. They're government workers. They have to get their years in. So there is SOMEONE at the DPW that knows how to do this. But doesn't feel the need to fill in the crews???? How stupid is that? I get we're talking about government, but HOW STUPID IS THAT???? Gosh. Could you imagine you don't have to work as hard to get double the job complete???? Yeah. Let's not do that. Let's grumble and do a shitty job instead.
I'm fairly well done with this town. 28 years. In 28 years, not one discussion of "gee, there is a whole section of teh town we've never run sewer to. Maybe we should." Nope. F us. It's not hard. There are about 5 ways they could run it.
In 28 years. "Hmmm. This part of town, despite being barely miles from the water tower, has unusually low water pressure. We should fix that." Nope. Despite ALL OF THE WORKS BEING WITHIN 1/2 MILE OF THE CONNECTION TO FIX IT!
And the snow. "Oh, those aren't main roads." Ummmm, given the traffic #'s, yes they are.
What irks me is our mayor lives near me. You'd think this stuff would get at least a bit higher on the priority list. NEWP! Nicest part of town. No services. Fanx!