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Union Street Dog Park volunteers cleaned up the park and sidewalk today, but it doesn't look like the street is getting swept. We didn't have time to pick up all the trash and debris in the street. Could the city take a look at it? Thanks!

We would appreciate it if Parks or Public Works could pick up bagged leaves and yard waste that Friends of Union Street Dog Park cleaned up today with the help of park volunteers and students from Quinnipiac's Day of Service. Thanks to all who helped!

The city needs to have a system for plowing BOTH sides of residential streets. After the first odd-side parking ban, and plowing of the odd side of the street, the next step should be an EVEN side parking ban, and cleaning the EVEN side.
Alternate side of the street snow removal is typical in cities, and has been the norm in all the northern cities and towns where I have lived.
New Haven's odd approach means that after a big snowfall, if there is a second storm residents can't park on the even side of the street, because it is blocked with huge mounds of snow. If the city never removes the snow after each storm, things become more difficult with each storm.
Why doesn't New Haven follow a logical system to guarantee clear streets during the winter?

The city needs to have a system for plowing BOTH sides of residential streets. After the first odd-side parking ban, and plowing of the odd side of the street, the next step should be an EVEN side parking ban, and cleaning the EVEN side.
Alternate side of the street snow removal is typical in cities, and has been the norm in all the northern cities and towns where I have lived.
New Haven's odd approach means that after a big snowfall, if there is a second storm residents can't park on the even side of the street, because it is blocked with huge mounds of snow. If the city never removes the snow after each storm, things become more difficult with each storm.
Why doesn't New Haven follow a logical system to guarantee clear streets during the winter?

The city needs to have a system for plowing BOTH sides of residential streets. After the first odd-side parking ban, and plowing of the odd side of the street, the next step should be an EVEN side parking ban, and cleaning the EVEN side.
Alternate side of the street snow removal is typical in cities, and has been the norm in all the northern cities and towns where I have lived.
New Haven's odd approach means that after a big snowfall, if there is a second storm residents can't park on the even side of the street, because it is blocked with huge mounds of snow. If the city never removes the snow after each storm, things become more difficult with each storm.
Why doesn't New Haven follow a logical system to guarantee clear streets during the winter?

The city needs to have a system for plowing BOTH sides of residential streets. After the first odd-side parking ban, and plowing of the odd side of the street, the next step should be an EVEN side parking ban, and cleaning the EVEN side.
Alternate side of the street snow removal is typical in cities, and has been the norm in all the northern cities and towns where I have lived.
New Haven's odd approach means that after a big snowfall, if there is a second storm residents can't park on the even side of the street, because it is blocked with huge mounds of snow. If the city never removes the snow after each storm, things become more difficult with each storm.
Why doesn't New Haven follow a logical system to guarantee clear streets during the winter?

Most of the cars parked for the hockey game did not have paid parking vouchers for the paid area, or Zone 7 permits for the Zone 7 resident area.
This selective enforcement is completely unacceptable. Right now tickets are being issued in the downtown area, as they are every night until 9PM, but the city turns a blind eye when Yale events disrupt our neighborhood. Regulations are not applied fairly and equally across different neighborhoods, and this is one of those quality of life issues that lowers the civic standards of New Haven.
No excuses. This issue has been brought up for years.

This selective enforcement during hockey games is completely unacceptable. Right now tickets are being issued in the downtown area, as they are every night until 9PM, but the city turns a blind eye when Yale events disrupt our neighborhood. Regulations are not applied fairly and equally across different neighborhoods, and this is one of those quality of life issues that lowers the civic standards of New Haven.
No excuses. This issue has been brought up for years.

Cars parked so close to corner at Mansfield and Sachem, beyond the no parking signs, that it's hard to make the turn onto Mansfield. One of the cars is only a few feet, in violation of the law, from the fire hydrant. None of the cars I looked at had parking vouchers for the paid area, or Zone 7 permits for the Zone 7 area.
This selective enforcement is completely unacceptable. Right now tickets are being issued in the downtown area, as they are every night until 9PM, but the city turns a blind eye when Yale events disrupt our neighborhood. Regulations are not applied fairly and equally across different neighborhoods, and this is one of those quality of life issues that lowers the civic standards of New Haven.
No excuses. This issue has been brought up for years.

Today, Sunday, 12-18, it is warm and wet. Tomorrow, the melted water, piles of snow left on the sides of streets and at crosswalks, can be expected to be frozen to ice. The city should be using the day to clean up properly to the curb.
I was just driving down Park Street, approaching Crown, when fire trucks came behind me. I couldn't get out of their way, because their were piles of snow to the side of the street in the parking strip. I couldn't move into the intersection, since I had a red light, and the traffic going east on Crown was steady. In the end, I slowly moved into the intersection, which was dangerous, to let the trucks pass. I would not have had to put myself at risk if the city had cleaned the streets to the curb properly.
In a typical winter, more snow would come on top of the snow that is already there, and since many streets are not cleaned to the curb, the city would become an obstacle course.
Why is the response to snow so inadequate in New Haven????

Friends of Union Street Dog Park cleaned up the park today, raking tons of leaves from the park and sidewalk.

It would be great if the leaves could be picked up this week, before they all blow away!

Thanks!

Friends of Union Street Dog Park cleaned the entire sidewalk from Chapel Street to the end of the dog park of weeks of garbage and other debris. The city really needs to step up and do some cleaning itself. The rest of the sidewalk, and the gutter, needs to be cleaned from the end of the dog park to Fair Street.

Once again Yale students' parting farewell to the Elm city is a big piece of garbage. Yale seriously needs to include something in it's gradur student oriented about how to live as a responsible neighbor. They should be teaching about how to handle garbage and recycling, and some of the other fine points about grown-up behavior. This kind of behavior is ridiculously frequent.

The city needs to start fining building owners when their tenants dump their refuse on the sidewalk two weeks and counting with this mess at 46 Mansfield. We see very little enforcement from the city.

Can the city please keep Union Street on the regular sweeping schedule? Friends of Union Street Dog Park members just cleaned up some of the sidewalk, but the city needs to do the street sweeping. Can someone respond to let us know what to expect?

Once again, it's sweeping day, and there are tons of cars with visitor tags taking up most of the spaces. Many of these are residents who rent and I've here, but don't want to register their cars here and pay taxes. I have been paying my vehicle taxes in New Haven for years, and it's just not fair that it seems to be optional for many people.

Many use the excuse that they are students, and don't intend to be around for more than two, three, or six years.

Even the city's own website does not make it clear that the exception the state gives to fulltime students not to have to get CT driver's licenses does NOT apply when someone wants resident parking privileges. At that point, even the students have to register their cars here, and pay their taxes like the rest of us.

It is unacceptable that New Haven does not monitor this, and allows people to park for years with visitor tags, and allows this unfair system of only some of us stuck paying taxes. I am sick of having to compete for.parking with people who won't accept their responsibility to pay their share.

At 650 this morning on Fountain Street I stopped for a school bus. The car in the photo passed the bus while the red lights were flashing.

It seems that See Click Fix is blocking updates that I am trying to make on an issue I posted.

I am always careful to be civil in my comments. The message that appear says that my comment is "held for moderation". I contacted See Click Fix 24 hours ago, but they have not responded. Now when I try to post, there is no message, but my post does not appear.

It's very kind of unsettling that a system the city has purchased for reporting problems is blocking people. I really hope that this is just a technical error, but it is a huge problem that the vehicle that the city has provided for reporting problems, many of which can have implications for health and safety, might be blocking users, or that no one is at the helm to address problems. Has anyone else had this experience?

See: https://en.seeclickfix.com/issues/2538496

There is a huge barrel which is now full of trash, and people are adding more pestilence and filth around it (seems like a local sport). The barrel is not a real garbage can, so can the city please just get rid of the whole mess?