This Sounds Familiar
Rahm's feeling the heat over snow removal, so he's jumping on the suburban method for clearing snow:
- Side street snow removal — or the lack of it — has been a political trick bag for Chicago mayors for decades, but Rahm Emanuel said Friday he just might have a way out of it: alternate-side-of-the-street parking.
Minutes after South Side Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th) suggested the idea, Emanuel said he was already considering requiring motorists to move their cars from one side of the street to the other whenever heavy snow is forecast.
If the city can find a place in parking-starved neighborhoods where people can temporarily move their cars, that would allow snow-removal crews to plow residential streets all the way to the curb — and without having to worry about burying vehicles that homeowners have painstakingly dug out.
Again, old news, but everything old is new to Rahm, so he's grabbing credit for this idea and he's going to stake his rep on it.
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posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
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And if people would just put chains on their tires and a little weight in the trunk they would not have to worry so much about a little snow.
Great plan. We park on alternate sides of the street, uh, when? A day before the snow might fall? Two days? And we have to move our cars on how much notice, exactly? And the plows will DEFINITELY come, uh, when?
Yeah, I thought so.
The Magnificent Mile is not CLEARED of SNOW BANKS literally an impetus to tourists shopping and residents walking along N. Michigan Ave. Even the medians are covered with snow! on February 24! Send Emmanuel a message: Just Vote NO!
HEY! S&S! Here, ya dumb shits. Here's how they do it in Finland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTnsTBXHAPk
SNOWLOADERS.
Rotary plow with a conveyor. Doesn't push the stuff to one side. REMOVES it, and away you go.
The first was the Barber-Coleman, used right here in Chicago about 1920. You can see they've improved it an awful lot since.
This being Chicago, it provides also for an endless stream of "Hired Dump Truck Scandals." This is perfect.
Took me about five minutes to find this. Rahm I. Emanuel is too busy with his 30+ "dog parks" to bother...
Maybe get a tip from Bilandic.
Yawn............. NEXT.
Rahm has shown us enough.
Vote somebody else in, this guy didn't earn to be re-elected.
There's barely enough parking on the side streets now, how do they expect everyone to park on one side and fit?
What's the difference? They still won't blow to the curb. They haven't plowed to the curb even when the streets were completely empty of cars. It's one of the reasons I moved out of Chicago. Actually the biggest reason. I used to live in Norwood Park. Everyone in my neighborhood had a side drive. NO ONE parked their cars on the street. Yet the plow trucks would consistently plow right down the middle of the street, NEVER to the curb not even to one of the curbs even though the could have. I watched them do this four times one night. I actually tried to catch one of them and ask them why they couldn't at least plow to one side but I could never catch them as most of this occurred late at light or early morning. One of my neighbors did flag one of them down once and she asked the driver why couldn't he plow curb to curb as there wasn't a single car on the street and his reply was that "I don't get paid to plow to the curb". It was particularly frustrating because if I walked one block west into Park Ridge one could see how their side streets were consistently just the opposite. Their streets were plowed right to each curb. So because I could see this was never going to change because the citizens consistently voted for the same old machine backed candidates, I moved out of Chicago. I now live in a place where they DO plow curb to curb, where the county/city employees recognize the fact that they work/exist for the citizens not the other way around. Life is much better now. Streets plowed curb to curb. Several times a day if needed. No speed/redlight cameras which I always considered a government attack on the citizens anyway, no more Department of Revenue workers coming onto property to see if I have city stickers on my cars that were parked on my driveway, no more intrusion by the government, the same government that was SUPPOSED to work for me. Life is now much, much better. I sincerely hope that one day each and everyone of you will be able to say the same. You deserve it.
MWRD has issues, stay tuned!
I like the comment about DIB's during the debate.
When asked if he believed people should be able to preserve a parking space in front of their house after a snow storm. Rahm said "I believe in Sweat Equity," You did the work you own it" Wish he felt the same about payroll and taxes.
Maybe folks should start using their garages for their cars if they have one. Too many use them as warehouses for junk.
He should stake his reputation on his ability to play snap the towel at the bathhouse.
He excels at that.
From one who knows.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
The idea sounds good on paper, but are there really enough parking spaces available in Chicago for this to work? No!
Its down right horrible. Especially around the schools. I hope this costs that dancing twat the election!!
Requiring motorist to move cars and if they don't a ticket ? But there is no time for tickets ! How bout car owners get a shovel and move the snow onto the parkway instead of expecting the city to be their daddy and do everything for them.
Designated parking for Lakeview, the 007th District. Plenty of parking there!
How about sending the ticket Nazis around to the neighborhoods to write up the business or people who don't shovel their sidewalks? As a senior citizen, I finally went our of the house on Wednesday and got stuck on the corner. Lucky for me that 2 High School boy's saw my predicament and helped me home. I know that there is an ordinance for this. IS IT ENFORCED?
Rahm is an idea snatcher! He has no bright ones on his own he steals them then takes the credit. Like the commercial he had to pull that he took credit for and the residents and civil leaders called him out on it and said we being fighting on this for 10 effen years ballerina and he took it down.
People won't do it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
And if people would just put chains on their tires and a little weight in the trunk they would not have to worry so much about a little snow.
2/07/2015 12:41:00 AM
Not worried about DRIVING in snow. The concern is DIGGING THE CAR OUT from UNDER all the snow. Being plowed into the parking space by the snowplows.
Rahm will take credit for any and everything. It doesn't matter if he had little, if anything, to do with it.
2/07/2015 07:44:00 AM
Then how do I get my car through the 6' drifts in the alley that the city won't plow?
A plan like that may work in the suburbs where street parking is seldom an issue. Trying it in Lincoln Park and most other North Side neighborhoods is a whole different animal. Think about it most North Side neighborhoods never have anywhere to park and that's using both sides of the street, fire hydrant areas etc. So Rahm thinks it's plausable to cut street parking by 50% during snowstorms( eliminating parking on one side) will work?
To listen to this asshole babble around election time is amusing.
If there were enough spots to do this, DIBS wouldn't be necessary
We manage it during street cleaning in the summer, I'm sure something similar could be done for snow.
Maybe folks should start using their garages for their cars if they have one. Too many use them as warehouses for junk.
What the hell you talking about. I pay taxes and if I want to park on the street instead of my full garage so be it. Just clean them and we will not complain.
The city is too big for such a plan to work. Many people would not comply and end up with towed cars.
Other cities have ways to get rid of snow completely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaVHi9Mq56I
The heaters are only about 5 megawatts so you could easily electrify the thing and just shift it around the city, using juice from all the nukes that the greenies want to shut down to convert the snow piles into stormwater.
The City doesn't ever enforce the no parking after 2 inches on streets with the Blue and White signs which by the way are main arterial bus route streets with cars buried on them, if the city took care of these streets traffic could flow, FUCK HIM, he is just trying to avoid a run off, that weakens him with the people,
Just an idea. Instead of plowing down the middle of side streets several days after a big snow, blocking in spots that people have already dug out, how about clearing interior street intersections so the people that do dig out can turn corners. This would also help the flow of water once the snow does melt.
Maybe if the mayor got out and about in the city and saw what it is really like, he could implement a plan that actually works.
Most Civilized Cities do have this snow plowing thing down pat. It is called a Plan!
Big Cities in MN have rules called Snow Emergency. The main roads are plowed one night, Curb to Curb. If you park on one, you get ticketed and towed. The next night the plow all the remaining East-West Roads curb to curb, same rules. The third night, they do the North-South roads curb to curb, same rules.
If it is a bad winter, they come back to clear clogged roads. They post them as no parking and replow, or even load out the snow to clear the entire width of the street.
(and our taxes are lower too!)
And STOP putting those Willie Wilson signs up, On the dibs. The snow is going to melt, ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!........
All we need is sunlight and above freezing temps lol. It'll save any politician.
There's no space to do that in the city. In some of the more high density suburban areas(read: low income) there isn't enough parking and they tow dozens of cars. It's a PITA for all involved.
The snow loader is a good idea, combined with plows, end loaders and skid steers. Melters work too. The problem will be all the crying about payroll and so forth. IOW, the usual.
In New York, they allow people to double park on one side of the street on street cleaning days so they can get the street clean. If you leave a car on the side to be cleaned they take it, no questions asked, and everyone knows it. Why not that for snow removal on big storms?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about sending the ticket Nazis around to the neighborhoods to write up the business or people who don't shovel their sidewalks? As a senior citizen, I finally went our of the house on Wednesday and got stuck on the corner. Lucky for me that 2 High School boy's saw my predicament and helped me home. I know that there is an ordinance for this. IS IT ENFORCED?
2/07/2015 09:57:00 AM
As a senior citizen, I found the snow was too heavy and too much to shovel away all at once. So, I should get tickets?
So it snows and you dig your car out and then dig out a parking place on the opposite side of the street and park your car.
The plow comes and clears the side you were first parked on while also burying your car again.
You dig out again and move to the cleared side and the plow comes and cleans the side of the street that you and your neighbors already cleaned so you could park your cars. Brilliant!
I live on the far northwest side where there is little street parking because everyone has driveways. What do the plows do? One pass down the center of the street leaving piles along the curb. Even when they can plow curb to curb they don't. Another faulty idea.
I hope Chuy eats lil dancer alive regarding the snow issue at the next debate.
We manage it during street cleaning in the summer, I'm sure something similar could be done for snow.
2/07/2015 11:26:00 AM
Really? In the summer every street gets street cleaned every day all at once?
Street cleaning is done in bits and pieces staggered throughout the city that's why it usually can work.
Doing that for snow removal has another set of logistics and would be a completely different animal.
If it is an even numbered day on the calendar, do the even side of the street. Odd days do the odd side.. It works in the suburbs.
And tell Willie to GFH, He'll do shit for Chicago. He'd only want to make this city another Detroit, Gary or East St. Louis....And even under Washington Chicago wouldn't be THAT bad.........
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about sending the ticket Nazis around to the neighborhoods to write up the business or people who don't shovel their sidewalks? As a senior citizen, I finally went our of the house on Wednesday and got stuck on the corner. Lucky for me that 2 High School boy's saw my predicament and helped me home. I know that there is an ordinance for this. IS IT ENFORCED?
You want the City to give ANOV authority to PEA's?
Amusing concept.
Rahm loves this because it's a revenue stream. People who don't move their car to the other side of the street get tickets. Rahm gets to pretend he's doing something, and the city gets more money. Win-Win for Rahm. Lose-Lose for Chicagoans.
Again.
park in school/library/park district lots ,those that have been plowed, overnight. Plows can come by at night and clear streets curb to curb. They can do it on wknds too.
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