The official my street is still not plowed/transit update thread

I'm completely shocked and dismayed that the sides streets haven't seen a plow once. Not only that, but I haven't even heard a plow rumbling down 7th Ave. I've never seen it this bad.

Must not be an election year.

I saw a plow going through 7th Ave today around 845am... around 16th St...

Problem is there are still a bunch of cars in the middle of the road abandoned.... so that isnt gonna help anything...

Yeah, I don't think they're coming... 7th ave is looking slightly better though.

Though 5th ave is plowed, the plowed snow banks created a knee high mountain not allowing anyone use the crosswalks or intersections.. Seriously no paths to cros the street or avenues. You would think the storefronts on those corners would shovel a path so people can cross and reach their store.

And Shame on Dos Pollitos for still not shoveling their sidewalks!

In case you thought Queens was somehow "magically" better off ...I give you this shot just taken.

One can see that Jamaica Ave is well plowed, but the nearby side street is not. One can see that the side street is a bus route by seeing the large dead bus blocking the road.

I understand why they needed to make sure Bloomberg's street was plowed.. Because he needed to be driven around the City so he could see with his own eyes all the streets that are not plowed!

Bloomberg lives in an affluent area of MANHATTAN,

Brooklyn is the messed up one.

He even said yesterday that the numbered trains (the ones that go to his side of town, btw) in Manhatttan are running with some delays but the trains to Brooklyn (lettered) were suffering service delays, streets were delayed plowing and people should stay home. Unless you are a tourist in Manhatan proper and then you should walk to the broadway shows, they will be open, weeeee!

Tsarina, do you perchance work for the DOT?

(just sayin...)

i'm pretty sure tsarina is press secretary for the michael bloomberg fan club.

I lived with an elderly parent who needed medical treatment several times per week. In good weather he would either take public transportation, drive himself, or take a cab depending on how he felt on a particular day. In weather like this it would have been impossible for him to do any of those things. I imagine he would have opted to drive as the best bet for getting there and back with no hiccups.

People need to stop acting as if EVERY person driving is some jackalope out tooling around on their day off. Some of these people actually NEED to get somewhere and unfortunately the mayor isn't doing enough to make it easy for these folks to use other options. If one can't walk to a subway or bus because of impeded crosswalks, streets that have not been dug out, or bus stops full of snow what should be done?

exactly... i have one senior here that who is a frequent flier to the hospital and another who was rushed into the hospital in NY on monday. its disgusting that the city is in the mess its in after so much time.

I would love to have almost any job. I have a number of skills, most especially as a handy woman with a rather large number of years of experience. (anyone have any jobs I could do for them?) But sadly i do not work for the DOT. Nor am I a spokesperson for the mayors fan club. His business abilities are to be admired, none the least of which include his calm, rational approach to problem solving. For a rich guy he seems pretty down to earth. I don't agree with all of his decisions, especially regarding the Bedford/Atlantic armory, but the storm situation is not all entirely his fault.

I'm amazed by the naiveté (or irrational expectations) on the part of people who somehow expect that after 20 inches of snow and 50mph winds for a day that all roads are somehow supposed to be magically cleared, and driving should be easy.

Do I think an honest post-mortem should be done by city government to figure out what went wrong and what can be done to fix it next time? Sure. But scapegoating gets us nowhere. If mistakes cannot be honestly addressed and solutions determined, why admit mistakes?

Put this in perspective: Everyone's using the benchmark of the 1996 blizzard as a comparison. It took Saint Rudy and his forces the better part of a week to clean up after that storm, and that one didn't crop up on the day after Christmas.

Idiots driving, getting stuck, and abandoning their cars in the middle of major thoroughfares seriously slowed down snow removal. Hell, over by me, there were several garbage truck/plows stuck in the snow that FDNY had to dig out - they had to come back with front-end loaders to clear things - much more time consuming than plows. Is that somehow the fault of DSNY when the snow is that heavy?

The one mistake Bloomberg made was not declaring a state of emergency and closing the roads to all traffic save emergency vehicles.

But hindsight is 20/20. What if they had declared a State of Emergency, shut down the roads, limited bus/train service, etc, and then only 3 inches of snow had fallen? The wags would all be screaming about that mistake too.

Can't have it both ways.

People might notice that the subways still are barely working and the airports are just now kind of getting up and running. The Mayor has no control over them. I'm frustrated by the lack of plowing too, but it's not like this is all the Mayor's fault.

The airports and the subways, no.

The city streets, whose fault if not the Mayor's? Ultimately, it is his responsibility to make sure the streets of the city are usable.

Just ask former Mayor John Lindsay, who was not reelected because he failed to clear the streets in the outer boros.

Unfortunately, Bloomberg could care less... term limits preclude him from running for another Mayoral term.

@BrooklynGigCenter - have you called 311 to complain?