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Residents are obeying the parking ban and parking on the even side of the street, only to have plows come through and bury our cars in snow. Why is snow not being removed? The other issue is plows coming back through after our cars are shoveled out, and pushing more snow up to the cars.
7 Commentaires
Clos Think About It (Invité)
Sigh... some people still don't understand that there are two options: 1. Streets don't get plowed, or 2. Streets get plowed, which is the act of PUSHING the snow to the sides of the street.
When you're frustrated that your car has snow pushed up on it by a plow, or that the base of your driveway has snow pushed on it after a plow has gone down your street, just consider the alternative -- the snow stays on the street.
The only way to "solve" this issue is to CHANGE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS. Think about it.
Réouvert frustrated (Invité)
Today you'll see that, after a second day of the ban, the City has not cleared the snow off the odd sides of the streets. There is no need to place a parking ban on odd sides if only the CENTER of the streets are cleared.
Considering that normally residents do not own catapults, the law of physics would imply that the snow left by the City on the odd sides/front of driveways should be "pushed a bit" to the only area that the plows clear: the center of the road. Residents are not doing that.
The problem here is not to CHANGE THE LAW OF PHYSICS.
The problem is something far more possible: to CHANGE THE MANAGEMENT OF SNOW BANS/REMOVAL.
The combination of the City's poor planning, lack of acknowledgment that it does not have the necessary infrastructure to conduct snow removal, and common sense reasoning has impeded the staff responsible for these bans/removal to imagine alternative and EFFICIENT solutions. Incompetence and laziness are at play here.
It is frustrating to comply with the ban only to see that it is a fruitless effort.
Please give it some thought!
Clos Think About It (Invité)
Your frustration with the city government for not enforcing the parking bans is valid - polls on the NHI show that most people share that frustration with you.
However, your belief that a city can "remove" snow from streets without pushing it to the sides of the streets is clearly based on a lack of understanding of physics. Plows push snow. That's their function. They don't make snow disappear, they remove it from street lanes by pushing it to the sides. This is why they are angled in the direction of the sides of the street. If you want to be able to drive on a street, or to enable other vehicles (emergency vehicles, buses, etc.,) to use the street, then you should expect that snow will be pushed to the sides of the street.
Do people who realize this basic scientific principle clap & cheer when the find their cars/driveways blocked with snow after they have cleared them by hand? No. They grumble about the weather, fantasize about moving to Florida, and then get the shovel out. But they don't rant and rave about the function and product of plows -- which, again, is to push snow from street lanes to the sides of the street.
Réouvert frustrated (Invité)
Stop closing the issue. It is an issue.
Please do not be insulting; I am not stupid and you do not know my background in the sciences, btw. Especially in physics....
EastRockRes (Invité)
Lawrence resident (Invité)
Clos Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Membre officiel vérifié)