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These side streets in south end Halifax are now one-way due to all of the snow this city has gotten recently
It would seem that after the snow has fallen the main arteries get plowed, then the side streets get plowed many hours later.
Then the campaign is over and whatever the situation on the street is, is just left that way until the next storm.
Cars parked on both sides of the street, massive snow banks, sidewalks that aren’t cleared and still the odd cyclist, who I’m supposed to stay at least 1 metre away from.
That’ll work well.
A parking ban that is only in effect during storms that some car owners are ignoring anyway.
Can we not have our law enforcement drive around and call in the tow trucks for the removal of offending vehicles?
Or is it too cold for the comfortable officers to get out of their vehicles once in a while.
Would the geniuses down at city hall consider maybe parking on only one side of each street at any one time?
Say maybe, odd side of the street on M/W/F and even side Tu/Th
This isn’t rocket science here, it’s common sense.
Something severly lacking in this city.
Maybe we need a collection of expensive “consultant studies” to figure out what works so well in other jurisdictions before something new, different and effective is even considered.
Instead the thought process seems to be, “just leave it long enough, and it’ll turn to ice and then we won’t have to do anything”.
It’s all good and fine to say “Be Bold”.
But it doesn’t mean very much what when all of the well paid people we’ve elected and hired, are so totally lacking in insight. —Mikey
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2015.
WHOSE JOB IS IT ANYWAY?
It’s like that awkward moment at an Anarchist Picnic when nobody is prepared to take responsibility for lighting the barbecue for fear of being denounced as a police agent provocateur.
ERNESTO: Hay Karl, you should do it. You’ve got a Ronson. I seen it.
KARL: Screw you , Ernesto, I’m no narc. Besides, it’s just for ironic purposes.
LA PASSIONORRHEA: We shall eat all cold tofurgers in Solidarity with the oppressed who have no tofu at all.
CHAD: To hell with this. The old lady’s in town for a shareholders meeting. She’ll take us to the Keg.
Get a horse.
The problem starts at the first snow storm. The crews do not clear the snow properly the first time, leaving way too much snow way too far from the curb. Then wham! the second snow storm hits with snow left over from the first storm. Then, you guessed it, another snowfall, and this one turns to rain, freezing rain, and then frigid temps and repeat a few more times and there you have it. Fucked up city. I pity the impaired and elderly for they are at the mercy of this anti-elderly, disabled, and poor city.
Yours truly.
Phhhttttt – An empty sidewalk is………you guessed it.
Don’t forget …. Mikey’s hates everything
Ah, but there IS a plan. Our dear Mr. Natolino from Halifax Winter Services has been on the news several times now explain exactly what they plan to do. Further complaints to my city councillor – the old gray twat – confirms exactly what he said. They don’t want to spend any more money so as to preserve the budget. The plan calls for Mother Nature to clean up the mess.
Annoyed, I approached the local Ladies Lynch MoBBery to see if I could somehow distract them and repurpose their efforts. “Ladies, the people in charge of the abysmal snow-clearing efforts not only have penises but support the boys at the DDS Gentlemen’s Club.”
I was lucky to gave escaped with my own penis. Still have the noose though. Thought I’d put it up on eBay… raise a little cash… opening bid: $50!
The common sense is to stay off the road. There are way too many cars parked, gridlocked or otherwise in the way at the crucial times when the snow clearing needs to be done.
You’re right again, Crappy!
anyone else see the car on its side on Agricola this morn?
I don’t even know how you get it to do that…
yep, my friend lives nearby, excessive speed and the stupids
There’s a saying, “Why carpet the world when you can just wear slippers?”
Maybe the city staff are thinking, “Why scrape the pavement bare when you can simply wear grippers?”
” ….and the stupids”
I hear there’s an epidemic of the stupids. I hope they can come up with a vaccine. But then again, the people who need it wouldn’t get it anyway…because they are … well….stupid.
haha, good one. it was the first word(s) that came to mind , tho it is also the name of a bad movie, which i have never watched http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117768/
If you’re an oldie… mr magoo type lover, then it’s right up your alley.
One great thing about our city plow workers they know how to fill a driveways 3-4 times after a storm and are great at giving the overworked sidewalk workers extra shifts as they conveniently fill in the sidewalks for a third or 4th time after a storm. But you KNOW they are thinking of our welfare as we spend almost every day cleaning up after they drive by at 20-30 kph. Amazed that the number of heart attacks are as low as they are this winter.
That’s because you can’t shovel ice.
Yours truly.