No Salt? No Plows?
The city roads sucked again Monday night. Not a single salt truck or a plow to be seen. This started under Daley when the city budget began to crumble and OT costs were being slashed. Rahm has continued it, no doubt because no one sees a salt truck if they're home sleeping, so why not wait until the voters are in their cars, then they can see how busy Rahm's beavers are.
But IDOT was curiously absent from the expressways as well. Due to the assignments of people here and the locations of residences, we have a daily opportunity to travel just about every expressway and Monday evening/night, the expressways were worse than the surface streets if you can believe it. It didn't look like there had been a plow anywhere.
One can only wonder if Quinn was keeping the plows sidelined as Rauner prepares to take office so that everyone "remembers" in four years that it was a republican in charge and by golly, he couldn't move the snow. We wouldn't put it past any Illinois politician.
But IDOT was curiously absent from the expressways as well. Due to the assignments of people here and the locations of residences, we have a daily opportunity to travel just about every expressway and Monday evening/night, the expressways were worse than the surface streets if you can believe it. It didn't look like there had been a plow anywhere.
One can only wonder if Quinn was keeping the plows sidelined as Rauner prepares to take office so that everyone "remembers" in four years that it was a republican in charge and by golly, he couldn't move the snow. We wouldn't put it past any Illinois politician.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
29 Comments:
really? I saw city plows all over last night. When I got home about 2am from work my street which is a side street was already cleared. Roads were good with me from englewood all the way home.. no problem. While working when the snow started till it stopped I saw the plows running. not sure where this info is coming from but I saw a whole different story.
Emergency vehicles should have proper tires, and the rest should stay off the streets and expressways at night during a global warming event.
I can honestly say I was behind a plow on the Kennedy inbound last night around 9:30pm. That was the only plow I saw for the entire "snow event" though. Nothing on the streets last night or today. The side streets were treacherous this morning.
Sooner or Later Socialists Run Out of Other People's money.
Chicago is out of money.
If they wait long enough, it will get cold, so the salt does not work.
And it is gonna get cold...
Was the snow around Rahm's house plowed?
How about our stations? Our hospitals?
How about around the Obama library?
Chicago Public Schools have been canceled for tomorrow so no need to do them.
At 11:45, right in the middle of the storm, three IDOT trucks sat on the shoulder where the Dan Ryan meets southbound I57. We didn't see a plow or salt truck as we traveled through 11, 18, and 009.
Nailed it----Besides, these tree huggers think salt is BAD!
The roads still suck as of this writing...0815. You would think that with RahmTheImpaler and 50 alderasses up for reelection the city streets would be immaculate.
after Mayor Bilandic was booted because of the 1979 snow storm. In 1985 a professor at Berkley University wrote a paper which she studied how can these events can manipulates the public inorder change politics. she included complex mathematical equations that you will need a mathematics major to understand.
I regularly mention this article on here, because the article mentions the chicago police department alot. 30 years later after that paper was writen, we are living it.
It's surprising to read this about IDOT. Normally with the hint of snow they are sitting on the side of the road even if it's 60 degrees. Nice call on sticking it to Rauner. Spot on.
There's snow plows all over the ghetto the streets r clear. Check the snow plow tracker next time it snows. Englewood streets clear as can be.
after Mayor Bilandic was booted because of the 1979 snow storm. In 1985 a professor at Berkley University wrote a paper which she studied how can these events can manipulates the public inorder change politics. she included complex mathematical equations that you will need a mathematics major to understand.
I regularly mention this article on here, because the article mentions the chicago police department alot. 30 years later after that paper was writen, we are living it.
1/07/2015 09:33:00 AM
What article?
There was a salt truck down our block twice but the streets look the same. Still icy and sloppy and not clear. Gee, thanks Rahm.
Yeah, Quinn's a goof....
But I doubt you'll be defending Rauner in a few months , SCC.
The King sized, Kosher fucking that we're about to take from Rauner, Rahm, The Pritzkers, et al... will be one for the ages.
There won't be a dollar in our pension fund, or a quarter left in the couches of the executive mansion when these cocksuckers are done with Illinois.
This prick didn't spend $30 million of his own zort because he gives a fuck about Illinois.
IDOT fails to adequately plow and salt the expressways every year as a way to save money. When the roads got too treacherous for the public we used to have our ISP headquarters contact IDOT and advise them that we were getting ready to shut down the expressway due to the danger to the motoring public. Sometimes they would say that we couldn't do that. We'd reply with a "just watch us". That was like lighting a fire under someone's ass, and they always came right out.
First real snow of the year and this is the service we get? Not good.
Anonymous said...
There's snow plows all over the ghetto the streets r clear. Check the snow plow tracker next time it snows. Englewood streets clear as can be.
1/07/2015 09:54:00 AM
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A democratic lesson learned with the Bilandec 1979 snow trial. Bilandec stopped the redline trains on the south side, you know these democratic havens. This cost him the election. This is mentioned in the 1985 report I mention regularly. Dont clean up the ghetto, get booted out of office.
I was on the toll way (294) going southbound from O'Hare there were four I-Dot trucks, one in each lane, plowing and salting all the lanes at the same time. Traffic was backed up but I think this was good working idea.
Meanwhile, up here in Wisconsin my street has been plowed. Twice. Curb to curb. It's almost bone dry. And we received more snow than Chicago did. But then again we don't have lazy political hacks plowing our roads. Unlike Chicago we have hard working, good plow drivers
To poster 1/7/2015 @ 9:54 AM..... You have to keep the streets in the "WOOD" clear for the drive-byers so they can make good their escape.
I saw trees being cut today. I didn't think they cut trees in the dead of winter.
It's January in chicago.Get over it.
when the streets freeze up tonight good luck cause nobodys coming out till after the wrecks pile up.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
really? I saw city plows all over last night. When I got home about 2am from work my street which is a side street was already cleared. Roads were good with me from englewood all the way home.. no problem. While working when the snow started till it stopped I saw the plows running. not sure where this info is coming from but I saw a whole different story.
1/07/2015 12:03:00 AM
Signed, Mike Madigan
Saw plows all over. Actually better than usual job. Also have to consider road chemicals don't work as well in these temperatures.
was S/B on JFK @2200 hrs last night & the entire roadway was snow covered. 2 Minutemen trucks were handling a fender bender on N/B side @ Addison. No other IDOT activity. Saw only 1 city plow truck in 017 & that was 0200-while all this started @ 1630 on 7 Jan.
salt does not work all that well at the very cold temperatures we have been experiencing lately. Most places don't waste salt trying to melt ice when it is this cold as it just won't work.
Anonymous said...
Meanwhile, up here in Wisconsin my street has been plowed. Twice. Curb to curb. It's almost bone dry. And we received more snow than Chicago did. But then again we don't have lazy political hacks plowing our roads. Unlike Chicago we have hard working, good plow drivers
Don't believe everything you read. Had to go to headquarters yesterday from the northside. Kennedy and Dan Ryan were cleared and dry and my side streets had been plowed and salted. Not a fan of Streets and San,but they and IDOT got the job done.
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