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I come from further North originally and our snow removal plan works wonderfully. So here is how "back home" does it.
Day of suspected storm:
1) Open the parking lots of Churches, public schools and city parking lots for free parking all nite until 7am (M-F) or 8am (Sa/Su). If not removed, cars get towed with fines due the city - (money maker!) Free bus shuttles available.
2a) Cars park on "no parking" side of street or just one side on a street with parking open on both sides. Back home we have these streets marked with a Blue Square on the signs.
2b) Cars can not park on "parking this side only" or one side of street the day of the storm. This is the parking ban. This side of the street would be marked with a Yellow Square back home. Again, cars towed when in the way (money maker for the city!)
Plows do their job on the day of the storm on the empty side. The following day after the storm, cars are allowed to park on the other side of the street so this side can now get cleaned.
Its so simple and its proven to work!
19 Comments
Melissa (Guest)
Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Registered User)
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Brian Tang (Guest)
Those are some awesome ideas! I hope the DPW listens to you.
I come from a climate where most years the snow never really sticks, so this whole notion of waking up the next morning to find that the government has somehow magically cleared and salted all the streets is totally foreign to me. (Plowing streets is a huge waste of time in climates where it inevitably melts on its own by the afternoon). What I find most strange is how people will on one day preach small government and then the next day expect the government to possess a God-like omnipotence when it comes to plowing every last street in every corner of the city. Does anyone else see a contradiction there, or is it just me?
Dorothy (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
These are good ideas, but would take some time and money to implement correctly and monitor.
I'm guessing that the staff capacity is limited to do this, but could be wrong - have you tried talking with the Public Works department? If nothing is moving at the moment, it could be worth setting up an Aldermanic working group to develop a plan to implement these sorts of systems (and find out if it is within the city's current capacity).
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