This is Savings?
Wasn't Daley just bragging about a week ago about how smart the City was locking in salt prices at something like $40 a ton as opposed to what the 'burbs were paying nowadays (something on the order of $130 a ton)? Hell, with the purported half-a-million tons laying around, Chicago could sell some to the outlying municipalities for $100 a ton and put the difference toward the budget holes. So what's up with this?
- City officials pulled 184 snow plows from Chicago streets at about noon today but said they are monitoring weather conditions in case they worsen. Officials also said they are keeping an eye on another storm system that could dump more snow on the area late Sunday.
We always thought that the layer of salt that eats away at our cars also served a purpose by being crushed into the blacktop - it started the melting process quicker than the plows could get out during a really bad ice storm. It was a good theory.
We have to say that the streets are about the worse we've seen them in decades. Not just the ice, but the obvious lack of maintenance and half-assed construction. Pot holes are in full bloom and the number of broken and leaking water mains or hydrants defies our efforts to count on the way to, from and during work. Years of chronic mismanagement at Streets and in crooked contracting is truly coming home to roost.
We have to say that the streets are about the worse we've seen them in decades. Not just the ice, but the obvious lack of maintenance and half-assed construction. Pot holes are in full bloom and the number of broken and leaking water mains or hydrants defies our efforts to count on the way to, from and during work. Years of chronic mismanagement at Streets and in crooked contracting is truly coming home to roost.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
59 Comments:
i live in my greenwood and my side street is a sheet of ice. oh well, i, like most people over here pay taxes and we get little or no city services. im sure the area around 14th and indiana is plowed and salted
SCC,
the city can't sell the salt to the suburbs.
What it can do is sell the salt at $20 a ton to someone related to the Mayor.
That lucky relative then sells it to the suburbs at a substantial profit.
The relative of the mayor will of course use city pension funds to finance the salt purchase at say 1.25% percent annually.
You've been working the streets too long. Join us on 35th Street and we shall teach you the power of the clout side.
$6,500 in fucking taxes and I can't get down my street without skidding all over from the ice.
Fuck you Daley
There was one thing in this city that I always said I could count on and that was that at least the city kept its streets clean and safe during the winter months. THAT IS NO MORE. I live in the west end of 008 and the streets are covered in ice as they are just about everywhere else.
FUCK YOU DALEY!
In the 009th district today, we chased some little jagoffs tagging a garage and later we chased a banger with a gun. Unfortunately, everybody got away and me and my partner were big time pissed. Why they got away, I'll tell ya. The streets in 009 are a sheet of glass. We were sliding everywhere. We coudn't get any traction and we almost hit several parked cars needless to say we got stuck in an alley and had to rock ourselves out of a spot. WTF
You want to talk potholes. Come visit 433's beat. Alderman poop aint doing shit for the taxpayers. Drive down 130-131 Brainard, 130th Bridge to I-94, 128th Crandolet Tracks, Avenue O from 130th to 118th (landminds from last winter), a long list after that. What kind of hours does Ald Pope work 8am-9am then he's off the rest of the day. Why don't you do something about us having no police patrolling our neighborhood alderman poop?
RICHIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Daley has created a new fee for homeowners. Since he intends to pull his salt trucks off the street as much as possible in order to conserve on both salt and drivers' overtime, there has been a run on salt at the home improvement stores by city residents. GREAT!
Daley better remember that snow removal cost another mayor.
Well consider who Daley put in charge of the potholes and asphalt? None other than Lil' Tommy Bryne a childhood friend who got out of the policing business just in time. Had those god forsaken ethics statements been around when he ran the roost by golly he'd been on the Fed's radar!!!It's great to know low lifes in high places.
The streets were pretty bad Thursday, what happens if some kid gets creamed by a sliding car? Will shortshanks save any money after a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Why should a driver or an insurance company be liable for the cities failure to run a legitimate city.
There has to be some sort of negligence on the Shitty's part for not doing anything. The streets weren't even salted around the schools...all day or the next day.
I'm sure the reason that the city is not salting the side streets is because Daley did sell the salt and some how the money is missing! This is just the sequel to the "Hired Truck Scandal." When will the Feds list the indictments for this corruption scandal . . . and what catchy little name will they title this one?
SCC,
the city can't sell the salt to the suburbs.
What it can do is sell the salt at $20 a ton to someone related to the Mayor.
That lucky relative then sells it to the suburbs at a substantial profit.
The relative of the mayor will of course use city pension funds to finance the salt purchase at say 1.25% percent annually.
You've been working the streets too long. Join us on 35th Street and we shall teach you the power of the clout side.
Damn. You're right. Thanks.
somebody run against this peice a poop Daley!! He needs to go.
Setting up for Obmaa infrastruture plan to put people to work.
Mayor shortshanks thinks he's mayor for life. Wait till the next election!
As Attorney General designate of the United States, brother Barack has told me that the integrity of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is above reproach.
Mayor Daley will be given unconditional and free reign "to conduct the business of local government" without Department of Justice oversight or interference.
Indeed, Mayor Daley will be Barack's ad hoc confidant on urban affairs.
Mr. Patrick Fitzgerald's replacement must pass muster with Mayor Daley.
The Mayor, President-elect Obama and I agree that our primary mission in Chicago will be to prosecute the racist, jackbooted facist police who continue to murder misunderstood African-American youth.
Anonymous said...
Well consider who Daley put in charge of the potholes and asphalt? None other than Lil' Tommy Bryne a childhood friend who got out of the policing business just in time. Had those god forsaken ethics statements been around when he ran the roost by golly he'd been on the Fed's radar!!!It's great to know low lifes in high places.
12/07/2008 01:54:00 AM
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LILTOMMY_BIGTOMMY_LILTOMMY_BIGTOMMY
Who's who? Can't tell the TOMMY's without a scorecard?
LITTLE Tommy Byrne is Chief of Detectives
BIG Tommy Byrne is Richie's guy that is now the Commissioner(?) of Streets & Sanitation. Or is it LORD of Streets & San.?
Let a car hit me on the next seatbelt mission because the street was ice and not salted. I will be driving a Bentley....
As always, Bridgeport is nicely plowed and salted along with the area around 15th/ Indiana.
RICHIE DOES IT AGAIN!!!!
Daley has created a new fee for homeowners. Since he intends to pull his salt trucks off the street as much as possible in order to conserve on both salt and drivers' overtime, there has been a run on salt at the home improvement stores by city residents. GREAT!
12/07/2008 01:37:00 AM
Yeah too bad for richie though, I bought all of mine in the burbs...
Salt may cost $130 a ton but sand is still dirt cheap, mix it together like most other municipalities and voila we have safe streets.
Mayor Daley, meet my friend from the Federal Government, RICO.
Anonymous said...
In the 009th district today, we chased some little jagoffs tagging a garage and later we chased a banger with a gun. Unfortunately, everybody got away and me and my partner were big time pissed. Why they got away, I'll tell ya. The streets in 009 are a sheet of glass. We were sliding everywhere. We coudn't get any traction and we almost hit several parked cars needless to say we got stuck in an alley and had to rock ourselves out of a spot. WTF
12/07/2008 01:13:00 AM
Why are you chasing a tagger? For the benefit of your commander? Crash the car, injure your partner, loose days to suspension for a tagger? Priceless!
on my way to work last week and had an accident when a car headed west on a side street slid through the stop sign. i was headed north on the through street and slid myself as both streets were complete ice. luckly with all my defensive driving skills i wss able to avoid an acctcident, and the only thing injured was my car when i ended up eastbound hitting a crub and blowing 2 tires.
"Join us on 35th Street and we shall teach you the power of the clout side.
12/07/2008 12:20:00 AM"
Does the 'power of the clout' confer eternal life upon it's acolytes?
"Daley better remember that snow removal cost another mayor.
12/07/2008 01:44:00 AM"
He doesn't care, as he's not planning on being here much longer.
Don't you know, he's got himself lined up to become the next head of the GOA. (and that acronym does not stand for Gun Owners of America)
I live in the southwestern suburbs, we pay more for salt but evidently we use it as my street is as dry like on a July day. No ice rink out here.
This is what happens when basics are neglected year after year. The City is crumbling and so is the government. After years of mis-management and neglect the chickens are coming home to roost.
Anonymous said...
$6,500 in fucking taxes and I can't get down my street without skidding all over from the ice.
Fuck you Daley
12/07/2008 01:02:00 AM
Maybe you should send the mayor more real estate taxes or move north near Daley's donors so you can get salt. Salt is bad for streets and bad for cars. Things are pretty bad when we can't even get the bad stuff on the streets.
i live in my greenwood and my side street is a sheet of ice. oh well
Now you know what it has been like in the rest of the city for years, well your Mt Greenwood (by the way that's how you spell it dummy) bubble has burst join the rest of us. Welcome to the rest of the city
I live in the west end of 008 and the streets are covered in ice as they are just about everywhere else.
If you don't like it, the solution is easy MOVE. Put up or shut up.
It's a good thing that 'shanks kept the Wall Marts and other big boxes out of Chitroit. Who needs their tax revenue?
Got to go, I'm heading to Wall Mart in the the burbs.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
i live in my greenwood and my side street is a sheet of ice. oh well, i, like most people over here pay taxes and we get little or no city services. im sure the area around 14th and indiana is plowed and salted
12/07/2008 12:10:00 AM
Well, duhhhh. I might have to respond to my command bunker at OEMC in the event of an incident.
There was one thing in this city that I always said I could count on and that was that at least the city kept its streets clean and safe during the winter months. THAT IS NO MORE. I live in the west end of 008 and the streets are covered in ice as they are just about everywhere else.
FUCK YOU DALEY!
12/07/2008 01:07:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
In the 009th district today, we chased some little jagoffs tagging a garage and later we chased a banger with a gun. Unfortunately, everybody got away and me and my partner were big time pissed. Why they got away, I'll tell ya. The streets in 009 are a sheet of glass. We were sliding everywhere. We coudn't get any traction and we almost hit several parked cars needless to say we got stuck in an alley and had to rock ourselves out of a spot. WTF
12/07/2008 01:13:00 AM
Dork!
WTF are you thinking. You hit something or someone and they'll bend you over like a $5.00 whore!
Bwahahahahahaha!
Remember Pearl Harbor!
RIP!
check out shaved's website where he mentions that the city is still responsible for snow removal at midway airport that is LEASED. check those figures out, running into the millions just for snow removal.
I agree the city is in bad shape thanks to the mayor who is giving away all the assets and wants the olympics that no citizen without a contract wants! daley has a crew of cpd drivers paid a big wage, plus all the fleet cars assigned to drive him,wife and his kids and grabnd kids everywhere at the citys expense! Ask his drivers they will tell you that he and the wife treat them like shit and they stay only for the money! The mayor needs more valets! Why did his top guy under sammy the "large man" leave awhile ago? Maybe he knows about the scandal!
mayor daley
PLEASE keep mike picardi in charge.
he is the best commissioner ever.
So what are the plow drivers doing?
STOP VOTING FOR THIS MOTHERFUCKER. WHY ISN'T THE G IN HERE INVESTIGATING THE BOOKS FOR THE CITY AND THIS CROOKED COUNTY. WTF
THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST CORRUPT PLACE IN THE COUNTRY.
Fuck this (DAILY) dirty no good insane cocksucker
Once again the streets in 022 are sheets of ice. Snow packed down so hard on the street you slide everywhere. And that fat little cocksucker daley acted like he didn't know anything about the streets being all fucked up after the last inch of snow. I bet he'll act like he thought it was all business as usaull and shrug it off, "Oh, I didn't know. I thought they were all plowed. I didn't tell anyone not to plow and salt. Not me."
Hey daley FUCK YOU! GO FUCK YOURSELF!!
Anonymous said...
I live in the west end of 008 and the streets are covered in ice as they are just about everywhere else.
If you don't like it, the solution is easy MOVE. Put up or shut up.
12/07/2008 09:57:00 AM
Another daley dickhead!!!!!
Maybe shortshanks will city workers live outside of chicaga
Called my church today, I said don't expect to see me or my money until the streets are safe to drive on ..
Anonymous said...
Well consider who Daley put in charge of the potholes and asphalt? None other than Lil' Tommy Bryne a childhood friend who got out of the policing business just in time. Had those god forsaken ethics statements been around when he ran the roost by golly he'd been on the Fed's radar!!!It's great to know low lifes in high places.
12/07/2008 01:54:00 AM
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
LILTOMMY_BIGTOMMY_LILTOMMY_BIGTOMMY
Who's who? Can't tell the TOMMY's without a scorecard?
LITTLE Tommy Byrne is Chief of Detectives
BIG Tommy Byrne is Richie's guy that is now the Commissioner(?) of Streets & Sanitation. Or is it LORD of Streets & San.?
12/07/2008 07:57:00 AM
You know, like Sal (Big Pussy) Bonpensiero and Gennaro (Little Pussy) Malanga. Only the Byrne's don't work for a criminal empire.
Oh, wait a minute.
12/07/2008 01:13:00 AM
Why are you chasing a tagger? For the benefit of your commander? Crash the car, injure your partner, loose days to suspension for a tagger? Priceless!
12/07/2008 09:14:00 AM
I'm so fuckin sick of these "old timers" telling people to do no work. You know what, you came on in '91. You're not some dinosaur, you're a dog. Your mini-generation has done nothing to mentor the younger officers with less than 8 years. You cry and bitch and are a bunch of wanna-be "back in the day" story tellers.
You're the police, not some IOD coward. Don't write the city charge if you don't want, but DO patrol the motherland and keep the gang bangers ineligible to become future police. Locking people up is more fun.
But you're too scared of lawsuits? Please, it's just court time my brothers. In this economy, people need to go to jail.
In the words of a true mentor, J.M., "you have a life sentence one day at a time."
To all the young guys, take the whining from these haz beens and do-nothings, with a grain of salt!
I love posts that start with, "I live in Mt. Greenwood." You just know this post will provide good reading!
Some good pictures here of streets with/without an alderman nearby...
http://www.chicagoclout.com/
Maybe the Mayor should have someone fix the salt trucks. Did you ever notice how much salt they spit out? Way too much at once! Fix the damn things and save US some money.
"We were sliding everywhere. We coudn't get any traction and we almost hit several parked cars needless to say we got stuck in an alley and had to rock ourselves out of a spot. WTF"
Did you learn anything from this episode, Officer bucking for a Tact Spot?
In the 009th district today, we chased some little jagoffs tagging a garage and later we chased a banger with a gun. Unfortunately, everybody got away and me and my partner were big time pissed. Why they got away, I'll tell ya. The streets in 009 are a sheet of glass. We were sliding everywhere. We coudn't get any traction and we almost hit several parked cars needless to say we got stuck in an alley and had to rock ourselves out of a spot. WTF
12/07/2008 01:13:00 AM
Tagger? Hopefully it was anyone from the AOM or BAD crews.
AOM = Against Our Mayor
BAD = Bitch Ass Daley
They're kind of on our side! ha!
Bring back Jane Byrne!
"I love posts that start with, "I live in Mt. Greenwood." You just know this post will provide good reading!
12/07/2008 07:07:00 PM"
Yeah where's the I live in Engleweird,Lawndale,Alligator Gardens. C'mon SCC post'em so we can hear from all corners of the Shitty...
"But you're too scared of lawsuits? Please, it's just court time my brothers.
12/07/2008 06:54:00 PM"
So, you equate being a witness in a criminal proceeding to being a defendant in a civil lawsuit, 'my brother'?
Boy, are you in for some rude awakenings.
"Called my church today, I said don't expect to see me or my money until the streets are safe to drive on ..
12/07/2008 06:24:00 PM"
Now, THAT'S striking the vitals.
Mayor Daley, meet my friend from the Federal Government, RICO.
12/07/2008 08:22:00 AM
Do you even know what RICO is?
I DROVE THROUGH NORTH RIVERSIDE YESTERDAY, IT WAS LIKE DRIVING IN ARIZONA, ALL DRY, GREAT JOB NORTH RIVERSIDE, AND F-CKYOU CHICAGO,ILL.
To all the young guys, take the whining from these haz beens and do-nothings, with a grain of salt!
12/07/2008 06:54:00 PM
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OK wire rim glasses nerd looking midget limp wristed northside papershuffling ass kissing 5'0 tall COMMANDER mission number EVENT GUY!
Go give yourself a REACH AROUND and believe its the right thing to do!
"....go give yourself a reach around...."
Silly! You can't give yourself a reach around. It is a two-person activity.
I would be glad to show you.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Mt. Greenwood side streets are ice skating ponds....CAUTION !!
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