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Post by fishman on Feb 10, 2014 16:02:54 GMT -6
I remember when I was a kid and we had winters such as this one, there was never snow piled on Main St. and the side streets as it is today. They (City leaders) managed to get it picked up. I remember all the snow being plowed to the center of the street, then large tractors with snow blowers would load trucks to carry it off. I wonder why Streator either can't or won't, I'm guessing the later (won't ), do it now. I read in the News Tribune that Peru was removing their snow last week. I doubt that Ottawa has it piled high on their main street.
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Post by cityslicker on Feb 10, 2014 16:15:05 GMT -6
The downtown is deserted and the misleaders do not want to waste resources that could be devoted to more wages for their next evaluation.. A*ce is the only store on main , that would warrant any snow removal. They even have their own plow truck.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Feb 10, 2014 17:03:08 GMT -6
Public sector expenses were MUCH lower back in the day.
Bottom line, it costs too much money to remove something that is not a public hazard.
If it gets to that point, then they will have no choice but to remove it. There have been spots where they have already done so, I am not sure if it was the city or the private building owner, but some has been done.
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Post by dog on Feb 10, 2014 17:06:25 GMT -6
Public sector expenses were MUCH lower back in the day. Bottom line, it costs too much money to remove something that is not a public hazard. If it gets to that point, then they will have no choice but to remove it. There have been spots where they have already done so, I am not sure if it was the city or the private building owner, but some has been done. I have seen the city doing it on at least a few occasions. On a side note, I saw a news report a couple of weeks ago, and it said the state had already spent $75 million on snow removal up to that point, and that was before the last storm. |
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Post by toshiko on Feb 10, 2014 17:16:03 GMT -6
I saw them out, on Friday. Good grief, it is snow. It will soon melt. And from, what I have heard, from my Ottawa friends, they are not happy w/ their lack of snow removal in areas, also.
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Post by rocket on Feb 10, 2014 17:26:58 GMT -6
Psst,Hey peeps it will start melting next week.
Temps are suppose to be in the 40's and possibly one of those days touching a 50 temp.
I looked on accu weathers forecast site yesterday for the extended forcast that takes it to march 25th.
They show a temp for march 25th to be 59 degrees.
A little over 30days we should be starting to have those temps in the upper 40's to 60 degree temps.
Plenty of melting.
And according to the weather today,they say this artic cold blast we are having now is the last for the season and should start seeing normal to spring like temps from here on.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 19:20:47 GMT -6
Ottawa doesn't look any dif......
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Post by harleyrk on Feb 11, 2014 12:24:55 GMT -6
maybe ask the city workers that start at Midnight or two a.m. to have the roads cleared off, and they still put in their 8 hr. shift, snow removal is not the only job they have.
I think they have done a very good job.
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Post by father of two on Feb 11, 2014 12:35:26 GMT -6
Now when it gets plowed to the middle there are too many people out in the middle of the night who either drive into the row with their trucks or don't watch out for the workers. It got to be dangerous. Throw it the fact the there are more benches and things on the sidewalks and there are more things that could be damaged.
I could never why it was just main st that got this privilege. Side streets downtown didn't get this treatment and why shouldn't all businesses get their snow cleared off the sidewalks by the city? Fair treatment for all I think factored in the decision to stop also.
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