City of Madison Snow Removal. Yay.

Thursday's storm was a tough one. From a removal standpoint, the Streets Division would love a storm to hit at 11:00 pm and end at 3:30 am so they could clear the streets before the rush hour starts. Yesterday's storm was well underway for the morning rush hour and was still disrupting the evening rush hour.

City crews cleared the streets in handy fashion. Nice job. It was critical that for the depth of the storm, six inches, the city had sufficient equipment on the streets.

It was the same workers, the same supervisors who attacked the storm. The difference in fighting this storm as opposed to the December storm is that relative to the depth of the storm, the city dispatched more equipment.

Comments

[wondering]

And they put down salt early.

[anon]

I've never seen the downtown sidewalks look so good.

[Marius]

The competence and dedication of the crews and drivers was never in question. Problems were at the management/decision-making level.
Screw it up twice in a row? How lame would that have looked?

[wondering]

"The competence and dedication of the crews and drivers was never in question."

Yes. The only time I heard mention of a criticism of the crews was when the city used it as a straw man (as in: "The crews worked their butts off. How could anybody criticize them?")

[Kathy Adams]

You are completely correct - former Mayor Paul. They may be paying attention to the fact that everyone in this city has been complaining about beet juice and lakes versus people's safety for about four years.

Oh.....except those bicylce type people who hate cars and need to wave pedestrian flags in order to cross a street. I can't believe how much me and my folks laugh at those girly men who wave those ridiculous pedestrian flags. In my day, real men used to be able to cross a friggin' street with their families in tow without waving a friggin' flag (that only makes car drivers laugh).

Are we getting stupider and stupider? I wonder.

BTW - those crews who worked so hard are getting paid out of your ever increaing proeprty taxes for the houses you live in that are going in the different (downward) direction. You better believe they should be working.....where were they four weeks ago?