Where the Money Went

There's a social media account on X / Twitter named SubX News (or similar).  They were posting reports from someone who was taking pictures of snowed in bike lanes that weren't plowed, calling in to City Hall, and then posting more pictures of some specialty plow dumping the snow wither into traffic or onto nearby sidewalks. 

The one set we saw was mildly amusing and demonstrated what we had written about a number of years ago - that taking out an entire lane of traffic along with hundreds of parking spots was short-sighted in the extreme. Nearby businesses were denied thousands of customers and the City ended up cutting their own tax revenues in the end.

We had to go qualify last year at the Area 3 range and Belmont is a disaster from end to end, especially if a bus is there or God forbid, an ambulance has to try to force their way through.

The cost for these things was something around a quarter-million per city block, money that could have gone to balancing the budget, paying off debt, funding the pensions. This one isn't Conehead's fault but it's amazing how much money was wasted over the years for nonsense that continues to cost the City revenue.