Streets Still Suck
- Chicago police and paramedics are having the same issues navigating the city as everyone else – side streets aren’t plowed and the snow often sits higher than the bottom of cars.
“We haven’t had any issues I’m aware of other than the fact it’s a pain in the neck,” a Chicago police supervisor said. “And everybody’s dealing with that."
Police Department supervisors have been warning patrol officers of the risks of getting stuck and to avoid traveling side streets.
Some officers are parking their cars at intersections, putting on their lights and walking to calls in the middle of blocks if the snow is too high, police said.
General Services failed to clear many parking lots in a timely manner, so entire watches had to push squads, vans and SUVs out to the streets. PPO's and some officers were given shovels and told to clear pathways to the streets. On a brighter note, we did see garbage trucks outfitted as plows. We get it, it's a blizzard, the fifth largest on record, but during an event like this, it's easy to see where Rahm (and previously, Shortshanks) skimped on spending.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Thank you Rham Never let a Good Crises go to waste
Watched an idiot p.o attempt to drive a tahoe by brute force out of a spot at vri the other night, instead of borrowing a shovel and clearing a path for ten minutes, he gunned the hell out it back and forth until the engine light came ! same a-hole probably be the first to complain how crappy the cars we got are. Congratulations moron what would have cost a few minutes of shoveling probably cost a few grand to fix the truck when it does finally crap out. smh
I live in Mt. Greenwood and I have had a plow on my street plowing and salting about 4 times. I live on a sidestreet. Took a drive through the neighborhood and ive got to say they did a nice job. Its not curb to curb, but not bad. Its the lazy people out there who shovel all the plowed snow back into the middle of the street instead of blowing it up on the grass parkway. S and S has done good down here at least... dont know about the rest of the city.
I'm tired of the news media reporting that the side streets are getting plowed. Monday afternoon we finally saw a plow go down our street. All the truck did was flatten the snow and put down a heavy layer of salt. Nothing was cleared especially the intersections and the street is no easier to drive down. But you better have your sidewalk shoveled or you'll be ticketed. Tired of this mayor spending our money on what he wants and skimping on things like plowing. Time for him to go. Not LEO and not voting for the little dictator.
I live on a side street. Three hours of clearing snow last night, two hours more today. Cleared out the spaces in front of my house, and part of the street. About 6:00pm, the plow comes and pushes the snow right back onto everything I cleared. I just had to laugh. At least it came.
How about all wheel drive or legalizing and selling tire chains?
LTS. And Sgts. shoveling and pushing out cars too. Only a few fords mostly Tahoe's and ford Crown Vic's getting stuck. Have to call 311 to get your side street on the plow list.
Didn't the blizzard of 79 doom Blandic?
Good to see Englewood is a top concern, the side streets up in the 17th didn't get any attention until late this evening.
“The city did their thing,” said Elige Scott, 33, of Englewood. “They did it. When I woke up, my street was clear. I saw the trucks out. They really did it.”
In Englewood and Auburn Gresham, some people said they were pleased to find their main streets plowed clean and salted and some of the side streets plowed too. But in other neighborhoods, like Bronzeville and Woodlawn, some roads were impassable. Drivers hustled and sweated to dig out cars that were stuck in the middle of the streets.
This can't be true can it?
This flies in the face of all of Rahm's numerous recent press conferences where he's standing at snow command, with his sleeves rolled up for show, looking and pointing at maps etc. If you listen to RAHM and his yes men the city has worked miracles with this storm.
I'm sure Rahm's block doesn't have a flake of snow left on it ..... as for the rest of the Sheeple RAHM wants your vote!
Remember anybody, and I do mean anybody, but Rahm.
Rahm is not skimping on spending. He is just very furgal with the cities money.
Slightly OT, but thanks to the guys in 020 who stopped to give me advice on how to deal with my a**hole neighbor shoveling all of the snow out from in front of his garage door directly in front of mine, only hours after I paid to get mine clear. I now know it isn't against the law for him to be a horrible scheming clown of a neighbor, but I will call 911 like you said if I catch him in the act. Like I told you guys, this is going on over a year since this moron has been pulling this stunt. Some back alley justice was served earlier on thanks to an able bodied good friend of mine (I'm disabled, so I cannot move a snow shovel for the life of me right now, which is why I pay the snow removal service to begin with). Hopefully for their sake, the lazy a-hole neighbor will move it across the alley like a human being from now on, instead of in front of my freshly plowed out garage.
Signed,
A resident in 020 who appreciates your time, and the tip!
Emmanuel sucks at snow removal. I thought Daley did a good job at it.
No problem up here in Wisconsin SCC. I can't even remember how many times I saw a county plow truck come down my street and plow it. Probably at least five or six times. Plus, the drivers plowed curb to curb. I can't tell you how much that impresses me after living in Chicago all my life and watching those political hacks in Chicago plow one path right down the middle of the street, never curb to curb despite the fact that THERE WERE NEVER ANY CARS PARKED ON THE STREET BECAUSE EVERYONE HAD A DRIVEWAY.
The streets up here for the most part are wet but clear of snow. Yesterday I had to go into Chicago on business. Just for shits and giggles, we drove past our old house in Chicago. Thank God I have a Jeep because if I had a regular car I'd still be there stuck in the snow. Snow about twelve inches high with drifts even higher. It looked like a street in Siberia.
It is borderline criminal the way the city treats it's residents. It was apparent that they had not seen a plow truck on their street since the snow began falling. As I drove around the city I saw scenes that reminded me of WWII where we saw peasants walking the streets gathering up firewood, something to burn so that their families would not be cold only here it was people shoveling out their cars or other people with shovels on their shoulders going door to door trying to earn some money by shoveling out driveways or parked cars. I felt bad for them but then again I guess they are ok with the service the city provides to them because they keep re-electing the same democratic pieces of shit who are sticking it to them.
Never have seen the total lack of snow equipment on side streets, live west end of 008 watched ambulance 12 get stuck on side street while engine 132 had to get it out, what if they had a major health event dying patient in the back who could be saved if at the hospital on time? What a disgrace, people you know the rare who pay taxes stuck everywhere, but no salting! Who runs streets and sanitation plow division? Way to cut money former deputy chief of CPD drawing a huge pension now a double dip into another pension as you take more pension money?
Election season is here if after all the destruction rahm has done and you vote for him you deserve what you get! Anyone but rahm, even Karen Lewis stood up to him, not the smartest woman but she definitely has the "testicular fortitude" lacking in many!
C'mon, Charlie is doing outstanding work. If he wasn't the best he wouldn't have been hired.
Somebody ever tell those illegals to stop throwing the snow back into the street when digging out their cars.
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Has anybody seen my lawn chairs and ironing board?
Had to go through Norwood Pk. this morning. A lot of the streets look like they haven't been plowed even once. 41st Ward we have a problem!
"The plow comes and pushes the snow right back onto everything I cleared. I just had to laugh."
This is always how the City of Chicago handles side streets.
If the city adopted an "A" and "B" street parking plan for snow removal or sounded a horn to alert residents that the snow plow was coming and towed cars to complete the snow removal, there were probably be altercations and shootings and arrests.
Overall, Rahm's snow removal efforts rate a "D-." The mistake was that the plows were not dispatched earlier on Sunday (probably because the ballerina did not want to pay overtime). The worst aspect were the constant announcements about the side streets being cleared or about to be cleared when it was not happening at all.
As of Monday afternoon the sidewalks around the eighth dist still where not shoveled
I receive a fine if I don't shovel my sidewalk. Can I fine the city for not plowing my street?
Plow came down my street yesterday at noon. Female driving 5 mph. Plow up and salt out the back. Unbuckling believable. It easier with plow up. And the tracker shows street plowed. Not.
I live in Mt. Greenwood and I have had a plow on my street plowing and salting about 4 times. I live on a sidestreet. Took a drive through the neighborhood and ive got to say they did a nice job. Its not curb to curb, but not bad. Its the lazy people out there who shovel all the plowed snow back into the middle of the street instead of blowing it up on the grass parkway. S and S has done good down here at least... dont know about the rest of the city.
Dont believe its all the city my friend. I to live in mt greenwood my street was impassable still at 4 pm Monday. no city plows until finally one of the neighbors just did it with his pick up.
Years ago I aquired many useful and sometimes valuable items used to save parking spots. If it's in the street, it's junk for the taking, right?
I live in Mt. Greenwood and I have had a plow on my street plowing and salting about 4 times. I live on a sidestreet This guys full of shit!!! I live I mt greenwood also and my street still has not been plowed. Maybe he's clouted or someone on his block is???
P-P-P (Piss Poor Planning)
Chicago way overdue for intelligent, responsible, honest, and competent,Leadership.
No Democrats Need Apply.
Dump Rahm
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I live in Mt. Greenwood and I have had a plow on my street plowing and salting about 4 times. I live on a sidestreet. Took a drive through the neighborhood and ive got to say they did a nice job. Its not curb to curb, but not bad. Its the lazy people out there who shovel all the plowed snow back into the middle of the street instead of blowing it up on the grass parkway. S and S has done good down here at least... dont know about the rest of the city.
2/03/2015 12:31:00 AM
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You must have someone heavy on your block!
It's 930am Tuesday and still, a plow/salt truck hasn't made it down the block yet.
And no, I'm not on a dead end, cul de sac, etc
It was a clown circus in 024. Sgt's even a Lt. were out there clearing snow with shovels. The ward yard is directly west of 024 with gas pumps, plow trucks and salt. Needless to say, police personnel were doing the job of general services and streets/sanitation. The roadways into the station are still dicey and the lot in 024 is still jammed up. The city that works! Go figure.
this is exactly why we dont need an ex cop boss running streets & san.
If I could drive down every block in my neighborhood in just a few hours, then why can't a plow do it?
6:59 am-
Why don't you do it, big baby?
My street is nice and clear, but then again, we paid for a private cotractor. Rham does very little for the middle class taxpayers.
Many years ago, some coppers father invented a snow clearing & melting machine. He worked for the city, offered it to them. Guess what? Yep, he was told to shut up.
A clout-heavy PO I know was bitching on Facebook that someone else with more clout had their street plowed before hers. Unreal. "It's not fair!" Ugh.
Hey 6:28 , take it up with the ward superintendent Al Cacciottolo.
The whole area from Harlem to Austin went unplowed until yesterday afternoon and even then, they salted and that was it.
Maybe he was ordered to the east end so Zalewski will look better to the hispanic areas for the election, because after being surprised how fast they cleaned after the light snows earlier this year, they completely blew our area off.
Zalewskis polling numbers probably needed a boost on the east end so Cacciottolo blew us off.
The main streets were horrible many still bad
Police facility plowing is rare and when done is half assed
Poor managing by city
Rahm lies about everything why should snow removal be different?
Who was that police supervisor? And where did he work?
35th st?
They were plowing the parking lot of the CLOSED library @ 95th & Halsted while we were getting stuck in our own lot in 022. They still didn't have it plowed by shift change. Glad I can walk to work.
Use the hot air spewing from Rahm's filthy sewer to melt the snow, lickety split!
Side streets on 1613's beat are horrible with some being impassible with another 1" to 3" predicted tonight. I know the S&S guys are working hard but the side street up here are brutal.
I'm in Mt Greenwood too. Our street is clear no thanks to streets and San. We all paid to have the snow removed. However the salt truck AND plow just came down our street and did not drop one grain of salt nor plow one flake of snow. The service did a good job however we still deserve to have the street salted. Cheap ass city.
City took care of the elites and businesses but the vast majority of us commoners on the side streets got the shaft. Too bad he didn't appropriate the funds for Carmella Soprano Park to snow removal shortly before an election
This whole 23rd Ward is bullshit...
a discrace... the side streets unshoveled, unsalted, bumps lumps... horrible to drive on ...
what a disgrace and...,
You want my vote. ...
Hold you're breath! !!!!
I finally got a plow to come down my block. Unfortunately they are just dropping salt on the side streets NOT plowing. I'm lot sure how effective it is to drop salt in 6" of snow
Reminds me of a quote from a French Canadian during the 1979 Blizzard;"Ow av eva urd of a snow plow on the fron of a garbage truck to remov the snow". Not typing error read with a French accent.
Anonymous said...
Watched an idiot p.o attempt to drive a tahoe by brute force out of a spot at vri the other night, instead of borrowing a shovel and clearing a path for ten minutes, he gunned the hell out it back and forth until the engine light came ! same a-hole probably be the first to complain how crappy the cars we got are. Congratulations moron what would have cost a few minutes of shoveling probably cost a few grand to fix the truck when it does finally crap out. smh
2/03/2015 12:24:00 AM
So you sat there and WATCHED him do this and did nothing nor said nothing to him about it, but you want to come here and call him an idiot???
As of noon today, no city plows down my street in Clearing. Called Ald Quinn's office and does not seem to care.
Could this be "revenge of the plow drivers?" showing the people the real rahm? obviously charlie williams (Retired cpd deputy huge pension that guy), cant get it done! Thats what happens when you hire a no skill streets and San guy, he has no idea the magnitude of what to do! He is saving lots of cash, in driver pay bet rahm is giving him a big bonus, (besides wont he get another huge pension sucking the funds dry?).
Sick of Swan Lake acting like he is head of NWS and pointing at maps like he knows what the hell he's doing. Just had to mute the TV.
Can we move the mayoral election to May so these asshats will quit playing politics????
--No Cop Here
1PM on Tuesday in Burkes side of Garcia Ridge and 2 passes with the blade up is all we get. Several on line 311 requests because the phones are backed up and...
nuttin yet. Maybe after tonight's snow?
my side street took 20 mins to navigate. but thank g#d they had the bike lanes cleared out for the little aholes.
Got out for a while and took a drive after some serious shoveling. North Western Avenue looked like a shit show and that is an important street. One open lane (left) in each direction in many places with the other lane (right) a mess and parked cars buried closer to the curb. Side streets were hit and miss. Good clean up for the aldermanic relatives, not so much for everybody else.
Came home to find the city finally plowed the street and pushed the snow into all of the parking spaces that the neighbors had shoveled earlier.
Rahm Bilandic will not receive my vote.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Slightly OT, but thanks to the guys in 020 who stopped to give me advice on how to deal with my a**hole neighbor shoveling all of the snow out from in front of his garage door directly in front of mine, only hours after I paid to get mine clear. I now know it isn't against the law for him to be a horrible scheming clown of a neighbor, but I will call 911 like you said if I catch him in the act. Like I told you guys, this is going on over a year since this moron has been pulling this stunt. Some back alley justice was served earlier on thanks to an able bodied good friend of mine (I'm disabled, so I cannot move a snow shovel for the life of me right now, which is why I pay the snow removal service to begin with). Hopefully for their sake, the lazy a-hole neighbor will move it across the alley like a human being from now on, instead of in front of my freshly plowed out garage.
Signed,
A resident in 020 who appreciates your time, and the tip!
2/03/2015 05:20:00 AM
Get a friend to pour couple watering cans full of cold water on the snow in front of his garage before he goes to clear it.
There's nothing like chopping through an ice floe to make someone's day. Not illegal, not dumping, just cold water.
He sounds like a sad excuse for a human being, by the way. All my neighbors are helping each other, not making more work for each other.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
My street is nice and clear, but then again, we paid for a private cotractor. Rham does very little for the middle class taxpayers.
Many years ago, some coppers father invented a snow clearing & melting machine. He worked for the city, offered it to them. Guess what? Yep, he was told to shut up.
2/03/2015 10:24:00 AM
After shoveling out my driveway today, I decided I'm doing exactly that next year. Going to set it next to the sewer grate and encourage the neighbors to haul and melt, haul and melt. This City can't do ANYTHING right.
Side streets in the Big Oaks area are a very sad sight. (1613)
I live in the 23rd ward and and have seen plows both Mon & Tues. salting & plowing the side streets !!!
Here is a nice article about cops in 012 getting stuck. On several occasions neighbors have assisted in "moving them along."
http://oururbantimes.com/news/chicago-cops-have-fight-snow-well-bad-street-guys
The side streets have not been plowed at all! I too, am in Quinn's ward, they not only don't care, they're rude too. Not voting for him or Rahm.
i drove through berwyn north riverside, and westchester kudo to their mayor all the streets were clear and berwyn was working on their alley, you could had gone roller blading on the streets, i bet bridgeport 11tn ward streets are all clear,
So so many posts about the horrible mayor Rahm Emanuel. The fact that he is going to screw you out of your pensions with some kind of bullshit legal maneuver and the fact that he is like DiBlasio and will hang you all out to dry doesn't seem to matter to the FOP. He will back his cop hating, lying, whining, lazy constituents over the patrolman doing his job. And your FOP lacks the courage to endorse a man who is going to stand up for you. Rahm will support the scum who will take your pension and your home because you did something to violate his rights while you were protecting your partner or a citizen. It really seems like the cowards at the FOP do not have the courage to stand up to a petty hustler that is the mayor. Every vote tha tRahm or Chuy gets is a vote against the police----I cannot understand why they are so gutless. Do not think your cowardice in not endorsing Fioretti will do you a damn bit of good with Rahm or Mr. Hands up don't shoot Garcia. They will both chose the criminal---it is in their DNA. I urge you all to do the right thing and vote for Fioretti as your life depends on it---because it does. As Rahm says always--"Do it for the children". Yes---Vote for Fioretti for your children---the other two will not have their back either.
Check the South Michigan parking lots and Wells and Harrison owned by Rahm buddies--didn't shovel this year didn't shovel last year.I filed 311 nothing was done---this is the kind of mayor he is. He hates the people--he is an elitist snob.
I found the plow drivers that r working in mt greenwood. They r at the burger king on 110 n kedzie. My street is still a fukin mess. How about eating while driving like u do in ur personal vehicles.
no snow plows in edison park, we dont pay enough in taxes i bet mt billywoods streets are all clear, and so are bridgeports too.
The Scottsdale neighborhood hasn't seen a plow yet on the side streets.
Remember this residents when the time to vote comes. Alderwoman Lona Lane
18th Ward.
Lona Lane
Stevenson school all around hasn't been plowed.
People need to stop throwing the snow back in the street and put it on the parkway. It's okay with small storms but not with big storms like this. You're making it worse morons!
6:59am
Why didn't you stop, get out of your car and tell them ... instead of acting like a Bitch and crying about it here....
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Watched an idiot p.o attempt to drive a tahoe by brute force out of a spot at vri the other night, instead of borrowing a shovel and clearing a path for ten minutes, he gunned the hell out it back and forth until the engine light came ! same a-hole probably be the first to complain how crappy the cars we got are. Congratulations moron what would have cost a few minutes of shoveling probably cost a few grand to fix the truck when it does finally crap out. smh
2/03/2015 12:24:00 AM
So you sat there and WATCHED him do this and did nothing nor said nothing to him about it, but you want to come here and call him an idiot???
2/03/2015 12:26:00 PM
Maybe he should have told him, "No dessert for you, young man," or gave him a spanking, or maybe called IAD and tried to get him some time? He's just telling how lazy some guys on this job are.
I'm sure you wouldn't have said shit to him either, tough guy..
Boston had double the amount of snow, is a smaller city with less employees to clean and less equipment ,yet just a little over 36 hours after the storm, streets were cleaned, business back to normal, this little weasel mayor and his cadre of TV face people have no clue how to clean the streets, first off, why have parking laws that saw no parking after 2 inches of snow and then not ticket and tow, don't you readers now say it is because of ELECTION TIME, the city which by the way includes us THE POLICE just don't enforce the law. we the police are too good or too busy to write these violators a ticket, Fuck these people who just don't care and park anywhere, and 2nd, what about the side streets, Rahm looked directly into the cameras Sunday Night, Monday Morning and even Monday night and said the side streets and alleys will be done, when the sun melts it ? This city just gets worse and worse.
To the 05:20 post about your neighbor dumping his snow onto your garage, well the 3 foot apron, which is the area of your concrete that touches the alley is YOUR PROPERTY, and therefore since he is a big enough A_HOLE have the police lock him up for trespass, or just get a guy with a plow truck to bury his garage, me, I would flood the hell out of his garage.
Watched an idiot p.o attempt to drive a tahoe by brute force out of a spot at vri the other night, instead of borrowing a shovel and clearing a path for ten minutes, he gunned the hell out it back and forth until the engine light came ! same a-hole probably be the first to complain how crappy the cars we got are. Congratulations moron what would have cost a few minutes of shoveling probably cost a few grand to fix the truck when it does finally crap out.
Where do they keep the shovels in the squad? In the trunk next to the car jack, PPE kit and Beat Binder?
May the Ghost of Jane Byrne haunt the dreams of Rahm and may he hear the chains of Michael Bilandic in the night. Soon he also will be troubled by the specter of Richie Daley warning him that his sins will not be forgiven without atonement.
2/03/2015 09:29:00 AM
Yep.Had to walk to work MON & TUE.Fucking streets not even touched.Cars shoveled out at the curb, but still can't get down the street.So now do I buy a 4x so this asshole can tax me even more for not plowing our streets.O'Shea had better step it up, or the loony Dr. from N.BEV will be raking in the votes.
LOTS of eyewitness reports of plows-up, non-salting trucks driving up streets, then the City website suddenly shows that block got done.
The truck's GPS shows they 'serviced' your street, so the City website reports it as plowed, even though it wasn't touched.
GREAT SCAM.
This whole 23rd Ward is bullshit...
a discrace... the side streets unshoveled, unsalted, bumps lumps... horrible to drive on ...
what a disgrace and...,
You want my vote. ...
Hold you're breath! !!!!
You minions will be happy to know Eddie Burke's block is well taken care of so his city paid chauffeurs, I mean body guards won't get stuck.... http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/341993/snowplows-hit-ald-burkes-street-five-times
Anonymous said...
Watched an idiot p.o attempt to drive a tahoe by brute force out of a spot at vri the other night, instead of borrowing a shovel and clearing a path for ten minutes, he gunned the hell out it back and forth until the engine light came ! same a-hole probably be the first to complain how crappy the cars we got are. Congratulations moron what would have cost a few minutes of shoveling probably cost a few grand to fix the truck when it does finally crap out. smh
2/03/2015 12:24:00 AM
So you sat there and WATCHED him do this and did nothing nor said nothing to him about it, but you want to come here and call him an idiot???
2/03/2015 12:26:00 PM
No, someone else had said something to him, but his lazy ass just didnt want to do some shovelling like every one else did and yes i'm gonna come here and call him an idiot !!
NW side side streets suck!!
OT Anybody get the call from Retired General Wesley Clark. I assume it was for rahm but I hung up before he could get going. rahm's running scared if he's calling in the big guns.
3 city workers to deliver garbage cans and 3 to pick up the trash (Waste Management has one guy driving the
Recycle truck).
How about buying more plow trucks and getting
Some if these underworked city guys to clear the
Streets?
The mayor should fire Williams if he doesn't want this to become a campaign issue.
Ch 9 just busted out Charlie Williams. They pointed out that Ald Burke's street was plowed 5 times. When adked why, he claimed blowing snow may have covered it over again. Ch 9 got their info from the streets and san web sites plow tracker. Oh Charlie, you must have swallowed a big load for that job.
Snow removable doesn't exist here in the city. My street looks like a war zone with all the chairs and various objects littered on the street. I cant wait to get out of Chiraq and someplace warm.
WBBM radio is running around at this hour asking S&S "about the people who are still waiting for a plow to come by their street."
Ain't it something. GPS on everything, maps on the Web "for the public," and the bastards will run the route but not drop their blade.
Keep it up. Next -- robot plows operated from a satellite, on the same "grid system" used for trash pickups.
Don't laugh. Even the people at low-end places like Bank Of America and McDonald's are looking over their shoulders with increasing frequency...
Still laughing -- 36% of the staff at CCJ "became ill" on Super Bowl Sunday in the middle of a blizzard.
Dart was on the air today, still earnestly trying to convey the impression that he believes this.
Mary "pothole" O'Connor at it again failing her duties to perform the most minimal of tasks a alderman should , clear the streets..... How can they plow half a street? Easy if you live in the 41st ward......cars stuck everywhere, snow everywhere, people shoveling everywhere, salt and snow trucks NOWHERE !!!! The 41st ward where we pay the most yet receive the least.......
"Could this be "revenge of the plow drivers?" showing the people the real rahm? obviously charlie williams (Retired cpd deputy huge pension that guy), cant get it done! Thats what happens when you hire a no skill streets and San guy, he has no idea the magnitude of what to do!"
Apparently Tommy the Thumb Byrne didn't show him the ropes, like to see the two of them hanging from one over the Michigan Ave Bridge
>>>Anonymous said...
Emmanuel sucks at snow removal. I thought Daley did a good job at it.
2/03/2015 06:16:00 AM<<<
Which Daley!?!? Old Man Daley did OK and I remember he even got the utility companies unofficially involved in the big snow of '63.
But Shortshanks FUCK NO!!
The time he was trying to get the Olympics nobody got plowed or salted except the areas slated to be Olympic venues. They were all cleanup for the committee to see but the rest of us were winter hell.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
3 city workers to deliver garbage cans and 3 to pick up the trash (Waste Management has one guy driving the
Recycle truck).
How about buying more plow trucks and getting
Some if these underworked city guys to clear the
Streets?
2/03/2015 08:57:00 PM
Waste Management won't pick up a broken chair or couch, a mattress, or your broken bookcase. Waste management won't haul a few pieces of drywall or broken tree branches or yard waste.
And Waste management isn't used part-time as a plow with a quick hitch or as a makeshift snow-tamping tool in the alleys of Chicago.
You're stuck about fifteen years in the past, if you think the garbage crews aren't working their tails off these days.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Boston had double the amount of snow, is a smaller city with less employees to clean and less equipment ,yet just a little over 36 hours after the storm, streets were cleaned, business back to normal, this little weasel mayor and his cadre of TV face people have no clue how to clean the streets, first off, why have parking laws that saw no parking after 2 inches of snow and then not ticket and tow, don't you readers now say it is because of ELECTION TIME, the city which by the way includes us THE POLICE just don't enforce the law. we the police are too good or too busy to write these violators a ticket, Fuck these people who just don't care and park anywhere, and 2nd, what about the side streets, Rahm looked directly into the cameras Sunday Night, Monday Morning and even Monday night and said the side streets and alleys will be done, when the sun melts it ? This city just gets worse and worse.
2/03/2015 05:53:00 PM
Uh, Boston made the national news tonight about their LACK of ability to keep up with snow removal in their history-making storm. And it was a city official being interviewed who stated they couldn't keep up and their budget for the year was already close to blown. The video showed a similar situation as ours.
For comparison, though, Boston's streets are much narrower than ours, parking is really congested and much of the town is hilly.
Our snow was half what Boston got, the roads are wider, the terrain is level and we had ample warning.
May the Ghost of Jane Byrne haunt the dreams of Rahm and may he hear the chains of Michael Bilandic in the night. Soon he also will be troubled by the specter of Richie Daley warning him that his sins will not be forgiven without atonement.
2/03/2015 06:31:00 PM
Classical. Well done!
The 41st ward conditions are outrageous!! Some of the highest taxes in the city, but no city services. Cars stuck everywhere, alleys horrible, she does nothing!! nothing!! OConnor is by far the worst Alderman ever on the NW side! I think she will be in shock on Feb 24, when she s defeated by Anthony Napolitano CFD, former CPD!! Dump the bitch!!
"Get a friend to pour couple watering cans full of cold water on the snow in front of his garage before he goes to clear it.
There's nothing like chopping through an ice floe to make someone's day. Not illegal, not dumping, just cold water."
That might have been the OP's tip!
"the 3 foot apron, which is the area of your concrete that touches the alley is YOUR PROPERTY, and therefore since he is a big enough A_HOLE have the police lock him up for trespass"
As a Non-LEO, I will consider that a valuable tip!
"or just get a guy with a plow truck to bury his garage"
Hopefully that was what the good friend was able to arrange!
Agreed, if you aren't out helping others in this awful mess, and are in fact aiming to punish neighbors with your laziness, you belong in cuffs IMO.
Ward 44 (Alderthing Tommy Tunney's area) is a disaster. Side streets STILL not touched as of 10pm Tue 2/3. This includes Roscoe, Newport, Brompton, Cornelia, Aldine .... I've seen numerous plows in the area but only Halsted and Broadway and Clark are clear. Tuesday I saw a fat female plow "driver" sitting in her truck, pulled over on Halsted, eating several McDonalds items and reading a magazine!! Nice work, Rahmy and Tunney.
Don't worry. There will be no snow after this year. Global warming will take care of that.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I live in the 41st ward . ...I couldn't agree more with the previous article about dumping the,BITCH...Mary O'Connor has done nothing for this ward...the snow removal up here rt now is pathetic . ....But. I attended 2 debates with the 3 canadate that are running . ..The fireman /policeman NAPOLITANO can not answer any of the concerns that the people of the ward have . .Please don't put a person In as alderman when he has no clue as to what is going on and as to what the ward really needs...This Joe Lomanto is honestly the answer and more importantly the best qualified for the job...Just being a fireman or a nice guy doesn't make you a good alderman or a smart business man..If you were at either of the debates, you would know that what I'm saying is correct . .
No, someone else had said something to him, but his lazy ass just didnt want to do some shovelling like every one else did and yes i'm gonna come here and call him an idiot !!
2/03/2015 08:21:00 PM
You actually shoveled?Seriously,you risked a heart attack,hernia,back pains and this other guy didn't and he's the idiot??
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"Get a friend to pour couple watering cans full of cold water on the snow in front of his garage before he goes to clear it.
There's nothing like chopping through an ice floe to make someone's day. Not illegal, not dumping, just cold water."
That might have been the OP's tip!
...Agreed, if you aren't out helping others in this awful mess, and are in fact aiming to punish neighbors with your laziness, you belong in cuffs IMO.
2/04/2015 02:38:00 AM
I'm not the OP, but I'm glad you liked my idea.
I don't agree, though, that if you're not helping others, you belong in cuffs.
I often shovel my neighbor's place after I do mine, but this time around, I have the flu. Not shoveling much of anything - mine, or anyone else's -this time around. Sick, old, injured, not in town -- all good reasons not to be helping.
So, there are sometimes good reasons people don't help, but there's NO reason to be a hindrance to others.
And YOU would THINK Willie Wilson would do better????????. Maybe for HIS wards........
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ward 44 (Alderthing Tommy Tunney's area) is a disaster. Side streets STILL not touched as of 10pm Tue 2/3. This includes Roscoe, Newport, Brompton, Cornelia, Aldine .... I've seen numerous plows in the area but only Halsted and Broadway and Clark are clear. Tuesday I saw a fat female plow "driver" sitting in her truck, pulled over on Halsted, eating several McDonalds items and reading a magazine!! Nice work, Rahmy and Tunney.
2/04/2015 03:21:00 AM
obviously charlie williams wants rahm gone why else would he do this??
"I don't agree, though, that if you're not helping others, you belong in cuffs."
"So, there are sometimes good reasons people don't help, but there's NO reason to be a hindrance to others."
That was what I meant, if you're out creating twice as much labor for someone else out of laziness, then you belong in cuffs, not just because you choose not to or cannot help others.
"I'm tired of the news media reporting that the side streets are getting plowed. Monday afternoon we finally saw a plow go down our street. "
Amen to that. I read in the Tribune online Sunday that the side streets would all be plowed by Monday evening. What a crock of shit. I knew it was BS when I read it, of course, but the Rahm-hole propagates this shit, and the media just eats it up! Most of the side streets I was on in 016 just plain suck. They weren't plowed at all. Sure, I've seen a city truck or two, yellow lights flashing, filled up to the hilt with salt, and big plow blade on the front- looking very impressive! But wait- why is the blade off the ground? Why no salt coming out of the ass-end? WTF? Same crap in some notorious Section 8 suburbs, like Skokie, too. They probably think they're fooling everyone, making it look like they are actually doing something, when all it is- is a great big illusion. When I mentioned it to a couple of neighbors, they said "No, we saw the plow- they are out!" But they weren't so sure what exactly it was doing, besides just driving along with its yellow lights flashing. Just wasting fuel, and OT tax dollars apparently.
Rhams Revenue Agents out in force Ticketing
Thank you Rham Never let a Good Crises go to waste
2/03/2015 12:05:00 AM
Oh friggin cry more. Like the Comptroller would give us the day off with pay.
I was at work every day the week of the 2011 blizzard. And they kept us on all week doing "retraining" and "studying."
We have a new Assistant Director, and that individual wanted us out enforcing despite the weather conditions.
We had a 50% call off of City staff on Monday. Those that did report for duty stayed in the Squad room until about 8:30am. We skipped Rush Hour on the morning shift for the vehicles that were plowed in. We didn't write the 2" snow ban tickets. All we did for the day shift was check meters and parking lot city sticker enforcement. Tuesday I didn't work, took the day off because. Today we rolled out at about 8:15am. Since the lack of Plowing on the side streets it pretty evident, very few 1/15 expired plate tickets are getting issued in the neighborhoods and on the no rush hour main drags due to a shit ton of snow being plowed up over most parked cars plates. They don't pay me to clean your car off to check your plates or for your city sticker.
Keep track of the snowfall. 7 days for each vehicle in one spot and then the abandoned/not moved ticket can be issued.
If I was an alderman, I'd go out and buy a Jeep (out of my own pocket) paint it Chicago Blue, and have my name and ward on the doors. I'd put a plow on it and do the side streets myself. Once the side streets were done, then I'd do the driveways of the elderlyAnd then I'd get re-elected.doing arterials is a moot point if you can't get to them. Commie Rahmie failed miserably on this storm. Two days after the storm he decided to have to full complement of equipment dispatched. Bilandic now Rahm.
To the person that posted that Lomanto should be elected in the 41st Ward, I guess you didn't get the memo that he was put up by OConnor to drain votes from Napolitano. They have a business relationship and he is close to Rahm. It's common knowledge in the Ward.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ward 44 (Alderthing Tommy Tunney's area) is a disaster. Side streets STILL not touched as of 10pm Tue 2/3. This includes Roscoe, Newport, Brompton, Cornelia, Aldine .... I've seen numerous plows in the area but only Halsted and Broadway and Clark are clear. Tuesday I saw a fat female plow "driver" sitting in her truck, pulled over on Halsted, eating several McDonalds items and reading a magazine!! Nice work, Rahmy and Tunney.
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Tunney is a bigger stroke than Burnett or Mell...but not quite as big as O'Shea or Burke.
Wants Street Cleaning tickets issued...wants RPP enforced...wants meters checked "for turnover" and Whines like a Bi#ch if you ticket for anything else...
Called the Desk the other day whining that someone 'he knew" got a parker for parking in a Bus Stop for Starbucks....I also hear he has a battle with Revenue going on since 2011 about who he "allows" to work in HIS holy ward.
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