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Thanks to everyone on Winchester Avenue between Sachem and Webster for abiding by the snow ban and allowing for the street to be cleared and for traffic to be able to pass each other without incident.
If the entire City complied like this block did imagine the ease of clearing the streets.
3 Comments
RFM (Registered User)
We also obeyed the ban on Tilton, Mansfield, Woodland and Compton, but no cleaning was ever done. I feel like the clean-up, starting with the city-wide ban, lacked a strategy.
They should have narrowed down targeted areas to only a few days of limited parking, tried to clean all the areas scheduled, ticketed the cars parked illegally (like the hundreds of cars parked in violation of resident parking zone restrictions) and adjusted the schedule, with communication updates, on a daily basis. Instead they made the entire city move to one side of the street, never got to huge areas, and never communicated anything.
From the point of view of strategy and communication, this operation was not successful, and makes people lose faith in the City's ability to deal with crises.
neighbor (Registered User)
Yes, it's true that we on Mansfield and Woodland and Compton and Tilton streets parked in vain on the even-numbered sides of the street. We might as well have parked IN THE MIDDLE of those streets, for all the follow-up plowing that didn't get done.The plowing strategy was not just incompetent but absurd -- even cynical. The City broke faith with its residents -- as least the residents in this small part of the New Haven world.
On the other hand, I have driven through near-by streets that are in even worse condition -- namely, Lincoln and Bradley streets, and even parts of Orange street. Compared to those streets, Mansfield looks like the Champs Elysees.
Closed City of New Haven (Verified Official)