Salt Free Driving
Has Rahm allowed Streets and San to put down even a spoonful of salt on a side street? We know that once again, we haven't seen a plow with the blade down in the neighborhood - they just run the trucks around once or twice making ruts for people to drive in.
And how about all those bike lanes, especially in the "under-served neighborhoods," where no one used them when the weather was nice and now can't be plowed.
And how about all those bike lanes, especially in the "under-served neighborhoods," where no one used them when the weather was nice and now can't be plowed.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
56 Comments:
Side streets on far N/W side are brutal! Plows never came through. And if they did, the blades sure as Hell weren’t down. All the side streets around my block are frozen snow & slush. I feel like I’m off roading when I drive down the street, not an ounce of salt dropped. But yet you drive in the nearby suburbs and their streets are clear curb to curb. I never understood why the plows can’t go curb to curb around the parked cars when feasible. This place sucks!
A city that can't fund the pensions, pay for health insurance for retiree's, keeps raising taxes, and can't find enough things to sell to make money. BUT... WE HAVE BIKE LANES UP THE BUTT AT A COST OF HOW MUCH A MILE ($1,000,000.00 A MILE???)!!! Really does anyone know, is there a plan or does this shitty just run by the seat of it's pants??? We need more dump trucks in case it snows, you know the ones that just sit there and never take a load, too bad they can't ask MUMBLES any questions about his ETHICS OR LACK THEREOF!!!
I bet the northern burb where Ram resides is well salted.. and the streets surrounding house Obama was given for free of ice.
I'll take a truck with salt...
I shoveled the street twice and the plow screwed it up both times...no salt.stop pushing other peoples snow on my sheet. Ice still covers the street.
In the 45th. Ward (Arena) about 2 weeks ago the Park District blew all the leaves out of the park into the street. So a couple days later the steet sweeper was supposed to come for the last cleaning (there are 4 scheduled cleanings per year) they didn't post any signs and never came. So the plow came late Tue and made 2 passes did not drop the blade. Now when you drive down the street it feels like you are driving on river rock. Oh they also forgot to do some of the pot holes from last summer. When you call to complain they are checking into it but they ask for your name, address & phone. Yea that's a good idea. So as mad Maxine says: "Impeach 45" but I mean the local one.
ah the joys of city life.
shovel out the car for the plow guy to pin you back in.
rahm and company telling you to shovel walk in front of your house or face a fine.
while fire hydrants remain buried and cross walks at corners remain impassable.
I complained to my alderman and still have no salt. Alderman Sposato are you listening
Remember skitching? Good times.
And there is some bootlicker telling that Jags how much money was saved, so don't worry about till they squeal real loud
Rahm is looking into the pink himalayan salt as a cheaper alternative to what is currently in use. It also tastes good in the schmaltz.
The ONLY streets that were salted had someone important living on the block, as far as I can determine. You could ice skate on my block, N. Oriole ave.........
Salt costs money. Does Chicago have any? (Money or salt?)
Yet you read the Chicago Trib editorial page's "reader letters", and there's not a peep about neglected city services. Rather than posting snide comments here, where there's little net positive change to be affected, or in addition to your comments here, which me personally I enjoy reading, why not write a letter to Trib editorial page? Why not write an email to your alderman? Why not a letter to King Rahmula? Voter complacency is the single biggest reason Chicago, Cook County and Illinois are so fucked-up.
The Wicker Park yuppies will be bitching and moaning about the bike lanes. I hate those "fixie" single speed, no brake bikes. My fat ass can still bike 20 miles a week in the Summer though.
Who shovels the sidewalk in front of Rahm's "Pretend" Crib on Hermitage? Do the Suckholes assigned to his Detail do it, or do they just send a guy from Streets & San? Baby "G"
Looks like his streets and sanitation commissioner John Tully is trying to show rahm how he is saving money by not using salt! I live in the 14th ward been trying putting in request to get light repaired zero responses going on 6 weeks now, looking more and more like the west end of 014 that Eddie Burke needs to stay in office are being neglected as usual! Wonder will another Hispanic take the alderman's spot, after his brother Danny Burke lost to a young Hispanic kid?
What a Hell Hole !
Rahm is just giving you a big "Fuck You" on his way out of town!!
It's a fucking shame the suck ass local media will not do stories about the snow not being plowed!
You guys should have turned your backs to the bastard at the funeral!!
streets like a skating rink and just yesterday my wife slipped and fell walking to driver door.its like playing chicken with other cars when driving down a side street.hey rahm,dont be so cheap on the salt.you spend a fortune on bike lanes,but refuse to send out the whole fleet of trucks and give these drivers the ot needed for proper removal.
be proactive and take time to protect your block.shovel out those hydrents.in case of fire it could make the difference.
Save money on salt. Figure it will all melt in a week anyway. ( perhaps its voters wrath)
No salt on the north side side streets. It would have been relatively simple to help keep the ice at bay, but they couldn't be bothered. Now we're stuck with dangerous conditions until it warms up. This does not bode well for the upcoming winter.
NW side no salt anywhere but the main streets ie Foster, Higgins, Touhy, Harlem, etc. Side streets are a fkin mess of solid ice blocks. Did ot and 011 side streets are a hell of a lot better than ours. I understand though...i mean that IS where the taxpayers are right???
What a joke.
This is a last “fuck you” to us from Rahm. Never let a crisis go to waste, eh?
Maybe Rahm is trying to give our clothes, our cars and the environment a break by cutting back on the ridiculous amounts of the horrendously corrosive road salt they typically use.
In WI, where they get more winter weather and snow than us, they don’t use the ridiculous amounts of road salt that Chicsgo does.... yet they get by just fine.
Side streets still call Alderman Sposatos office ask him where is the salt trucks. Why are we waiting so long for salt when the residential neighborhood pays property taxes.
36th ward alderman Gilbert Villegas wants to put his re election signs up on your lawn but doesnt want to make sure your streets are cleared and salted.. Many folks that live between Diversey from Sayre to Newland and up to Belmont are pretty pissed at him, especially
Can someone please explain why Talman Ave from 103rd to 108th is plowed 3-4 times and is always clear of snow curb to curb???
Every time the plows plow the side streets or major streets, they bury in the cars that are parked on the right side of the street !!!!!
It's all in the master plan. City can't afford health insurance, so they are just cutting your intake of sodium. It's bad for your heart and blood pressure. And shoveling is good exercise, so go ahead and shovel a couple of blocks of streets. Salted streets are only for democrat party voters!
sarcasm off
I was just up in Morton Grove and Niles, their side streets that I was on are clear of snow, plowed curb to curb. And on Milwaukee Ave. Niles has a small yellow front loader type machine with a snow blower attachment and they were doing the sidewalk. Get back to the city the main streets are great but the side streets are full of lumpy ice.
I bet the non-taxpaying areas such as Englewood are free of snow and well salted. The city wouldn't want a vehicle committing a drive-by to be stranded, nor do they want the addicts to slip and fall while on their way for "rocks and blow". People really need to wake the fuck up. The government only wants and needs the law abiding workers for their tax money, with which the same workers will never see services come their way. The leeches eat well, have subsidized utilities, housing vouchers, free phones, free internet, nice cars, etc. This is all courtesy of the working taxpayers.
NOTE TO ALL CHICAGO READERS;
On the extreme southeast side (Hegewisch to be exact, 130th to 138th streets, 10th Ward) all streets are plowed AND salted AND ALL alleys are plowed by someone with a 4 wheeler plow within 24 hours of all snowfalls. It's been happening for years. The Alderwoman claims to have no knowledge of who does this and who is paying for that small area to receive alley service.
However, if you were to check Whiting Indiana and Hammond Indiana you would find they also get this service (and get the alleys plowed for every show). I find it amazing that a smaller town (Whiting) can do this with smaller equipment and Hammond a larger city, bigger than the 10th Ward can do the same.
And Chicago only cleans the Mag Mile and the Loop area. With so much more taxes collected, and more equipment available, we receive almost nothing in return.
When we get Lake effect snow along the entire east side from Evanston to Indiana, there have been times when the city plowed the alleys so people can get in their cars and go yo work. Your Alderpersom will deny that it happens, but it does happen after they receive thousands of calls. The city does have heavy equipment that can remove 4, 5, 6, and 7 feet of alley snow when it wants to.
I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the plows just sitting and waiting for some baffoon at snow command to give the order to start plowing or salting. Truck drivers being paid union wage rates to do nothing but wait.
No wonder so many are leaving town.
Just Saying.....
I’ll bet the streets on Hermitage are plowed and salted.
Jerks plowed down the middle of my street. We're better off if they dont come by at all. Came home to boulder size chunks of snow/ice in front of my house.
What Me Worry, Wahm ?
Another NW side dupe.
Plow came by but didn’t bother to do any curb-to-curb service, they left a 2’ high mound of slush to freeze overnight.
The real time plow tracking doesn’t show plows actually pushing slush or drizzling some chemically enhanced salt-like substance into the sewer system. Strict orders.
Cutting the overtime, the product and the bottom line to divert excess winter funds to summer Sanctuary efforts.
Did the RavenswoodDetail shovel a couple spots and who put out the lawn chairs to save them?
Who digs out Special Ed’s hooptie?
Did Eddie ‘Muenster’ Burke have his street squeegeed?
Talk about old salts...
bring back the best of S&S “add another pension to my inflated salary”, C-C-C-Chilly Chollie Williams and Tommy “Feel the Burn” Byrne.
I never understood why the plows can’t go curb to curb around the parked cars when feasible. This place sucks!
We have these things called driveways in the burbs so the plowe can do their thing.
Retired and living elsewhere in Illinois. 10 inches of snow and the township snow plows had it under control by about 8am. It was blizzard like from about 8 to 11pm and I was up at 6am and the road had already been done once, pavement visible and sand/cinder mix dropped. At 7am plow was back and did edge to edge plowing, again sand mix dropped. Plow was back later just doing clean up and dropped more sand mix. Life is totally different outside of ChiTown and Cook County.
west 08 zero ,,, a joke
That Rahm-Hole mother fucker is screwing the City and its residents over AGAIN!!! Not plowing even the major side streets?? What a jagoff!!! But the Big Jagoff In-Charge can install red light cameras up our asses!!! And pocket the collected fines, too!!! I bet those camera systems cost more money than a few pounds of fucking salt and running a couple of plows down some side streets. His priorities are really screwed up! And where's the media on all of this??? Nowhere to be found, and late to the party as usual. This city is a type 3 clusterfuck, pardon my French...
How about the ice rink walking from the parking lot to the doors at near north?!
Why cant the streets be cleared of snow like the street sweeping is done in the summer?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yet you read the Chicago Trib editorial page's "reader letters", and there's not a peep about neglected city services. Rather than posting snide comments here, where there's little net positive change to be affected, or in addition to your comments here, which me personally I enjoy reading, why not write a letter to Trib editorial page? Why not write an email to your alderman? Why not a letter to King Rahmula? Voter complacency is the single biggest reason Chicago, Cook County and Illinois are so fucked-up.
11/28/2018 08:19:00 AM
Sorry, all you mention will fall on deaf ears. Look what is happening on a national level. We gave the republicans the house, senate, then the presidency, it is not a matter of voter complacency, it is deep staters, Republican and democratic, thwarting the will of the people. There seems to be only one box left for voters.
The plow drivers have gone fetal.
45th Ward still a disaster.
Dump Section 8 Arena.
No plows came nowhere near our side streets. The sidewalks streets and alleys are icy. The hell with this city.
been plowing for city of Chicago for over 15 years... and after this first measurable snow fall I can say this without hesitation,99% of my co-workers are clueless and scared of my good friend...Mr. Concrete.
If Rahm was running for re-election the streets would be clear curb to curb....
Re: some of the comments on money spent for bike lanes instead of plowing... I spend a lot of time in Minneapolis. Same thing in Minneapolis. Car lanes, parking spaces are disappearing so that the vocal, whiny, snowflake bike riders can get a protected bike lane on what seems to be every street in Minneapolis.
Don't move to the city of Minneapolis. The city "leaders" are all left wing idiots.
I recentally moved out the the Csry/Fox River Grove area and am totally amazed at how well the streets and sidewalks are plowed and salted, sidewalks obviously where there are sidewalks, not too many of those but the streets are like it never even snowed. so happy to be out of Crook County and in McHenry county... so much nicer
Rahm will drop everything whenever there be a complaint that west side& Englewood people needs their side streets salted to gets to work, day care, church, Sav-a-Lot, Red Line hijinks...
im retired and now live in a town in sw will county. when it snows the state, county, township and city are all over it. repeated passes with blade and salt, widen all the intersections and lots of salt. in the downtown areas all the sidewalks are done the first night including all muni parking lots. they stock pile everything and come back the next day to haul it all off. i did city plowing with heavy equipment, phase 2&3 for decades during every big blizzard in the 70s,80s,and 90s and i was never in a good nieghborhood. curb to curb on ghetto streets with 3 houses on them. often we would have a political kommisar giving us directions on which important houses, dope corners and chuches to clean. several times i worked for dorothy tillman directly, the potty mouth queen. we didnt work for wards, we were city wide snow troops. best part was after a fun 12 hour shift go home to my heavily taxed residencey island and have to shovel out a spot on an impassable ice covered street. i spent my entire career providing city services to areas that pay no taxes and rarely ever worked a decent tax paying area. we are and have been getting fucked by these democrats. the election results prove there is no turning this around. florida here i come lol.
Look, most of y'all complaining here are police officers. That job profession with a few years experience/JD, there are positions ALL over the country, in the 'country" you could find.Nice little towns full of "Trump voters" LOL and not so much winter. Take what you can get for your house from the bank and what you got, About $25-30K can buy you a mobile home and a lot .It might not be much at first,neither would be the pay as what I understand y'all make, but hey piece of mind is worth a lot.Move the game , roll the dice, see what happens.
This putrid city can keep its salt. All that crap does is ruin strrets, grass, and cause your car to rust super prematurely.
Bla bla bla, do what you have to do. It’s winter.
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