Comment 96106

By Myrcurial (broken account) (anonymous) | Posted December 18, 2013 at 14:50:34

I was hard on Sam Merulla last year over snow plowing... things haven't changed this year.

For much of residential lower Hamilton, on street parking is the norm. This means that our nominal two lane streets are really one-and-a-I-can-just-squeak-past lanes.

When the snow plow comes through (it was a road grader most recently) it makes a single pass. That clears one lane.

That's right - this city is so hell bent on one-way streets that it actively converts much of the lower city to one-way whenever there's a snow storm.

The only option I can come up with is for the plow to make two passes. One carefully along the parked cars pushing the snow away from them and a second pass with both blades deployed to push the snow off of the road and onto the lawns, clearing the sidewalks in the process.

This would require people with driveways to pull in further to avoid having their bumper smushed by snow, but it would be better than the current situation of taking up half the driving lanes with snow piles.

Or maybe we just need to have a bulk order of the one-way koolaid that they serve at City Hall.

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