Technology to Remove Snow
Microwave beams to be transmitted from City Hall to melt snow before it even hits the ground?
No.
Secret chemical to be sprayed on city streets that will prevent sticking and freezing ice patches?
No.
Cameras and GPS?
You bet!
No.
Secret chemical to be sprayed on city streets that will prevent sticking and freezing ice patches?
No.
Cameras and GPS?
You bet!
How do you avoid a blizzard of budget-busting overtime and still remove the snow from Chicago streets?
By using technology to measure and improve productivity.
Today, Mayor Daley unveiled plans to put GPS, high-tech sensors and the city's vast network of surveillance cameras to work to get the snow off Chicago streets.
Sensors on the trucks will tell camera-monitoring supervisors how much salt is being spread, how many tons are still in the truck and whether the blade on a plow is up or down on the street clearing snow.
And by using safety cameras, the city will be able to track the movement of snow plows without putting nearly as many supervisors on the street.
Is there anything GPS and cameras can't do? Besides actually make sure that enough plows and drivers are on the streets when the snow hits?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
34 Comments:
just let barry,shortshanks, the mighty quinn and the toddler collectively open their yappers.....and viola! the ultra heated blast could melt a glacier! or fertilize north america.
I certainly would not have put it past Little Tommy Byrne to think of all of this in his wee little brain. He can see eye to eye with DaMare on most anything that would fill his pockets with taxpayer's cash!
How about gps-ing us a fuckin raise you stuttering prick!
Am I missing something? Now the supervisor will sit inside a warm office staring at a monitor to ensure the truck driver is distributing the rock salt equally, as opposed to being on the street with the crew? and this is going to keep the cost down and the snow plowed quicker?
Is there anything technology cant do!!!! I don't think any of us would live to see that day.. These days technology has become advanced enough to read the mind of a mouse and control its whereabouts... http://www.cypress.com/
The fucking media and the clueless citizens continue to buy into this little fucks bullshit tax dollar spending.Who's got the contract to install these cameras and censors on the trucks and what's the relation to daley?
I'm sure all the Exempts taking 24unpaid furloughs next year are gonna help pay for this.
ENJOY YOUR POSITION.HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I/F
This is just a way to give Streets and San. a black eye. Remember, he wanted to privatize snow removal last year.
Watch for him to stage a media scandal with leaked GPS evidence and video in Jan. or Feb. showing a crew fucking off somehow.
Come May, the new snow removal contract wil be granted to "Marina Cartage - Enviromental Division" or some such scam.
Boy,it's a good thing the city has no money to pay for these high tech-gadgets.
daley should get the Michael Bilandic Mayoral Stupidity Award for 2009. And each year thereafter for as long as he is still soiling the 5th floor of city hall with his presence.
I have a vision for this city, that is that an offspring of Jane Byrne be elected mayor and spend her first four years in office removing any sign that anyone named richard daley ever walked the earth here.
Great, and maybe a probe up the ass of the driver can tell us if that driver is awake or asleep and would vibrate if a deep snore is detected. .
Why is it that whenever there is a controversial change (cameras and GPS), the city always washes it down people's throats with a bucket of "safety"? That is what they said about the blue light police POD cameras, Street Sweeper cameras, red light cameras, squad car cameras,and squad car GPS . The fact of the matter is these so-called "safety" devices never live up to the hype. How many officers feel "safer" with these devices in place? How many citizens have benefitted from the devices? Seems to me that whenever the "safety" devices are needed, they never work...How much money is being wasted on these things? Daley must be trying to give everyone in the city brain cancer with all these microwave frequencies floating around!
SCC: Microwave beams to be transmitted from City Hall to melt snow before it even hits the ground?
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Jesse already came up with that idea. "Taser Beams" keeping snowy streets clean.
Is there anything GPS and cameras can't do? Besides actually make sure that enough plows and drivers are on the streets when the snow hits?
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Why Yes -- They can't pay for Themselves... So which cost more? OT or a large purchase to a Clout owned electronics contractor
I thought our city had NO MONEY.
What is the cost of all these GPS?
How about we use something else... how about the damn people called 'Supervisors' get off their asses to see that the job(s) are done?
My god, this city is so stupid!
When are they installing GPS on Shortshanks and the Alderman's cars and installing camera's in their offices? They use (Waste) our taxes but NO oversight!
tom byrne is a double dipping no good POS.
please retire tom and let someone who needs a job get one.
Anonymous said...
tom byrne is a double dipping no good POS.
please retire tom and let someone who needs a job get one.
11/13/2009 09:09:00 AM
That's a fact. No doubt the mayor could hire 4 hard working citizens on byrne's salary. Now you got 4 supervisors with fresh ideas and more manpower coverage. And that goes for the rest of those power hungry thieve city high rankers.
Anonymous said...
When are they installing GPS on Shortshanks and the Alderman's cars and installing camera's in their offices? They use (Waste) our taxes but NO oversight!
11/13/2009 09:01:00 AM
Now that would be change we could believe in! Then we could see the mayors,eddie burkes,and that goofy tresurers D-3 guys picking up milk,running for coffee etc.. My friend works in fleet (until he is laid off along with many in jan 2010), he told me they check the deatil cars every oil change for "bugs" like gps etc... What do they do that is criminal with these cars?
Even better the tech will tell them weather the snow blade is up or down? WTF the drivers don't know when to plow and when not to? dumbing down daley stle,no wonder the idiot alderscum lyle wanted ipra investigators not so educated only in shitcago!
Is it too late to bid on the contract?
Just to ruin Daley some more, I hope we have a horrible winter.
Or it doesn't even have to be horrible, just a couple of big snow storms.
How about DOUBLE DIPPING TOM BYRNE? $140,000 a year pension from the police and $ 140,000 a year salary from streets and san! Boy he must really be smart or something because the mayor couldn't find someone else to head up streets and san? WOW City of Chicago scams at it's best!!!!!!
tommie byrne will take jfeds spot in 2011
Anonymous said...
When are they installing GPS on Shortshanks and the Alderman's cars and installing camera's in their offices? They use (Waste) our taxes but NO oversight!
11/13/2009 09:01:00 AM
True story: shortshanks refused to have GPS installed in his limos when the city began installing them on city owned vehicles.
His security team wanted it for security purposes. shortshanks said no for political reasons, he didn't want a paper trail of his comings and goings, only others can be watched, never the short of shank.
Shortshanks said this technology would let them know if a plow is spreading too much salt on some streets and not enogh on others. Have you ever seen how much salt is spread in the 11th ward? Especially down Lowe Ave wher John Daley lives and the 3500 blk where Sis Daley used to live? The salt is spread so heavily you feel like you're driving through salt mines. I'm sure this new technology will prevent that right Ritchie?
HOW ABOUT MAKING THE MAYOR AND ALL OF THE ALDERCREATURES WEAR HELMET CAMERAS AND GPS SO WE CAN TRACK HOW MUCH WORK THEY ACTUALLY DO ALL DAY!!!
Tom Byrne will no doubt be the next police superintendent in 2011.
That's guaranteed!
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
When are they installing GPS on Shortshanks and the Alderman's cars and installing camera's in their offices? They use (Waste) our taxes but NO oversight!
11/13/2009 09:01:00 AM
Now that would be change we could believe in! Then we could see the mayors,eddie burkes,and that goofy tresurers D-3 guys picking up milk,running for coffee etc.. My friend works in fleet (until he is laid off along with many in jan 2010), he told me they check the deatil cars every oil change for "bugs" like gps etc... What do they do that is criminal with these cars?
11/13/2009 10:23:00 AM
shir cpd "sweeps" daleys office and the big bosses at 3510 frequently what are they hiding?/
Hey Fran what ever happened to the lucrative city contracts Little Tom Byrne(ret) was receiving with the Mayors approval back when he was a rising star in the CPD?! Search the ethics statements and you will find his wife's name all over them....Pathetic excuse for a reporter.
when we were growing up on south lowe street the mayor and i were pals, actually he followed me around like a lost puppy. So, this one day i convinced him to eat yellow snow , told him it was lemon ice, he loved it.
This is one of ShortShanks dumbest bullshit ideas. For the past 40 winters I have driven Chicago streets and have yet to see snowplows goofing off. They go where they are sent, but the Daley appointees don't know how to plan so they send them to the wrong places. Firing all of the upper management of Streets and Sanitation and hiring qualified people would be a great start in fixing the real problem.
Re: Jayne Bryne
Wow! Earlier today, I wondered about Jayne Byrne returning as mayor. She couldn't be worse than King Daley II.
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