Snow removal
The people in Longmont responsible for clearing the streets are doing a pretty poor job. Here it is a week later, and we’ve still got ice islands in the road, people slipping all over the place, and there’s no equipment out breaking this up. People responsible for the streets should be put on notice that they’ve got to get with the program, and if they can’t do that then maybe the city manager ought to be put on notice.
I was appalled yesterday. As I was driving north on Main Street, I saw a woman with a walker trying to cross 21st Street. I watched her struggle to get over to the crosswalk button, manhandling her walker across a pile of snow, and watched her work her way back through to the cleared sidewalk (so) she could wait for the walk sign. Homeowners are required to clear their sidewalks 24 hours after a snowstorm. Why isn’t the city required to clear crosswalks on our main thoroughfares so that a woman with a walker can safely cross a major street?
To all the people who are complaining about snow removal in Longmont: Please move out of Colorado. Don’t come back.
Let’s applaud the city of Longmont leadership in how quickly they came up with a Plan B. After seeing the recent elections vote down the ice rink and the swimming pool, our leadership quickly took advantage of the recent snowstorm. By leaving the streets unplowed, we’ve realized the dream of having our local skating rink, citywide no less. Maybe we can ask Santa for a Zamboni so the new rink’s ice can be smooth. Let’s wait till things thaw, and we should be well on our way to that new swimming pool as well.
After the snowstorm last week, our street was at least a foot deep in heavy, wet snow. Our regular trash pickup day is Tuesday, but it was understandably postponed until Friday, assuming the street would have been plowed by then. However, the street was almost as impassable on Friday as it was earlier, but to our happy surprise, the trash truck made it through and picked up as promised. What an outstanding job those folks did. I wish we could thank them personally.
I assume it is the people that live on plowed collector streets who were saying the city did an outstanding job, when side streets were not even plowed. I suggest in the future, the city add 14th Avenue adjacent to the hospital surgery center to the list of plowed streets. I cannot imagine the pain for breast cancer patients riding on those huge ruts after surgery.
This is for the people who were dissatisfied with snow removal. Not too long ago, I lived in a city of 2½ million, (and) during the winter months when we had snow similar to this, up to 2 feet, (on) all public transportation — the few buses and trams running —people were taken off and given shovels and picks and worked 24/7 to clear the snow, loading it onto trucks, which were driven to a nearby river. In 3½ weeks, there were finally a few lanes where minimal traffic could be using them. Be thankful you live in this country and you have the services that you have.
If you started driving on the city streets before the snowplows had time to clear the streets, then you’re the problem, not the city, not the snowplowers, not even the weather. If you don’t stay home and let the city plow the streets first before you get out and run around, then you’re going to have the problem that we have right now. So remember that during the next snowstorm, please. And stay home until the streets are plowed.
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