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howardf
Real Name
Username: Howardf
Post Number: 138
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 6:23 pm: |     |
Why hasn't the town shoveled the Town Hall and Memorial Park? And its other properties? |
mwsilva
Real Name
Username: Mwsilva
Post Number: 291
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 6:51 pm: | |
All the staff is on duty working on a new Federal foriegn policy program. |
Joan
Citizen
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1418
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 7:45 pm: | |
Mwsilva:
Cute 
Seriously, when I was out walking this afternoon I discovered the hard way that the town had not even begun to shovel the sidewalk leading from the library to Maplewood Avenue. This forced everyone to walk in Baker Street, competing for space with traffic going in both directions along a stretch of road where there is a dangerous curve. Drivers of approaching vehicles couldn't even see the pedestrians until they were right upon them. Fortunately, most of the drivers were going far more slowly than usual.
I can understanding waiting a day or two for the streets to get dug out but it is now several days since the snow landed and this is a comparatively busy pedestrian thoroughfare for our town. |
howardf
Real Name
Username: Howardf
Post Number: 139
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 7:53 pm: | |
There are also serious liability concerns. As a taxpayer, I don't want my tax dollars going to compensate someone whose injury was caused by the town's failure to shovel. |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 878
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 8:24 pm: | |
Does anyone know if this is a question of a lack of manpower, or equipment?
I would suspect with the amount of snow that has to be removed to make way for parking cars, clearing emergency exits, fire hydrants, and the like, it's already costing the town a lot of over time and money.
I’m sure they have their hands full, but I wonder if there were any things they could recommend for residents to do to help the town out? Besides making things safer for all of us, it also might help to mitigate any potential additional hit on our tax dollars? Certainly the previously suggested ideas of neighbors going past their own properties could be carried a little further…
BTW, how many additional snow blowers can you buy with $3,300.00? 
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mwsilva
Real Name
Username: Mwsilva
Post Number: 292
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 9:26 pm: | |
joan,
sorry, I could not let it get past me. |
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