[RP TownTalk] Question on street clearing

[Andrew Farrington]

I bought a pick-axe this morning, but it is backbreaking, 'heart attack' 
work.  The going is slow.

East-West Hardware in Hyattsville has snow-melt, or did at 11:00.

  -A


On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Dwight Holmes wrote:

> well, the good news was that within an hour of my post (or Jay's
> wakeup call post) they were shoveling the sidewalks on Lafayette &
> Queensbury around Dumm's.
>
> more partial good news was that this afternoon around 1:30 i drove up
> Riverdale Rd. past the school and saw that the sidewalk alongside the
> park had indeed been cleared -- a fairly narrow path, but it had been
> cleared.
>
> the bad news was that the effort stopped shy of the bridge.  neither
> side of the bridge had been cleared! what a wonderful place to force
> pedestrians into the street. needless to say, there is a lot of foot
> traffic along there and i had to slow down to almost a stop to allow a
> group of pedestrians to clear the bridge and then step out of the road
> and up to the sidewalk where it had been cleared.
>
> on the subject of snow removal:
> Does  the town's public works plow the parking lanes of our streets?
> do they only not do it if there are cars parked there? why aren't the
> cars left on the street towed or at least ticketed (perhaps it's
> difficult to tow given the conditions right now)?
>
> our block of Riverdale Rd. (between Lafayette and 48th) has not had
> the parking lane plowed. there are a couple of cars left out on the
> street -- that's what got me to thinking.  normally i would have
> shoveled in front of our place, but it's solid ice now.
>
> On 2/14/07, JayRite at aol.com <JayRite at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 2/14/2007 1:40:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> dwightrholmes at gmail.com writes:
>> as a pedestrian commuter (i live on Riverdale Rd, take the MARC to work) i
>> can't help but notice that Dumm's Corner has adopted the same technique in
>> this storm and the previous one: the front side by the entrances are
>> shoveled but not the Lafayette side, and not the Queensbury side of the
>> property.  (couldn't help but think back to the discussions here about how
>> they are so much a part of the community...)
>> Wuh-oh! Jimmy you better get Butch over there and get that taken care of.
>> The Peanut Gallery has you under a microscope now!
>>
>>
>> i also just came back from the Giant on Kenilworth and noticed pedestrians
>> walking in the street on Riverdale Rd where the park is (between the school
>> and the river). the school's sidewalks are cleared, but the sidewalk that
>> runs along the park (of infamous reputation on this list as per an earlier
>> thread) hasn't been touched. is this the responsiblity of the town? or
>> MNCPP?
>> LOL I love it! Who IS responsible for this? Perhaps because of that now
>> infamous list, is the reason that it hasn't been touched. EEEWWWWW!!!!
>> Please update us on this. I know that there is some watchdog somewhere
>> willing to camp out to see the result.
>>
>> Staying tuned,
>> Jay Wright
>
>
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