Street sweeping cutbacks?

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Tyler

Not enough gravel - City sucks at snow and ice control

Too much gravel - City sucks at snow and ice control

I have never complained about lack of gravel and salt. The amount is obscene, I highly question why so much is used. Take a look on Crowchild trail near 16th avenue, the salt is destroying the concrete barriers especially the foundation.

[Mazrim]

A few years ago it was cold and snowing constantly for a few days straight, but only small amounts adding up to about 1 cm per day. It was enough to polish the streets to an icy shine and make intersections near impossible to pass. We were all complaining bitterly because the City wasn't doing enough to make sure the roads, and welcomed the overdose of gravel they threw down in response.

Now...we're crying out because they did what we wanted those few years ago, and aggressively sanded the road in anticipation of these snowfalls? I guess we have short term memories.

[Locke]

I dont know about the rest of you but I'm loving the salt. We need more of it. Every car with a trailer hitch should be hauling a hopper full of salt and courteously salting the road behind them for their fellow motorists.

I may or may not have invested heavily in salt futures. Use more salt!!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Locke

I dont know about the rest of you but I'm loving the salt. We need more of it. Every car with a trailer hitch should be hauling a hopper full of salt and courteously salting the road behind them for their fellow motorists.

I may or may not have invested heavily in salt futures. Use more salt!!

move east...................

[cam_wmh]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

My two young boys (5 & 7 years old) after being cooped up all winter are all balls to the wall to get on their bikes and as much as you try to tell them to go slow on the gravel you know kids will be kids and it sucks to see the city have this attitude towards kids and cyclists that they will have to tough it out because they have better things to waste our money on.

I grew up on a suburban cul-de-sac, and we swept our street of all the gravel & dirt that was dripped off our street's vehicles.

Us kids did it, because didn't want to catch a rock in the eye playing street hockey.

[gkatyal]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

LOL my buddy just posted this on his Facebook, taken this morning.



Good day for a plow!!!

LOL, I know that street, I am right at the end of that cul-de-sac. That snowpile by the for sale sign on the street, I am betting it will still be there when I get home

[jammies]

If only Nemshi understood that they need to do MORE with LESS! Look, I explained it right there, why can't they just implement this genius plan? Gravel! Taxes! Cut the fat!

[strombad]

Originally Posted by jammies

If only Nemshi understood that they need to do MORE with LESS! Look, I explained it right there, why can't they just implement this genius plan? Gravel! Taxes! Cut the fat!

You forgot to call him Spendshi. It'll really round the whole thing out.

[MG153]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

I've broken one bone in my entire body in my life. I was 14 and on a bike. Lost control because of loose gravel and broke my collarbone.

Likewise but my Collarbone instead

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I know this place is generally anti-Calgary Sun and Rick Bell but he's right a lot of the time about the morons in city hall.

Dick Smell only writes things that superficially make sense but are in fact completely stupid. It's ridiculousness disguised as common sense.

Also, Ian Robinson is a doofus.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by rohara66

I want to know WTF the city is thinking when they dump 10 tons of rock (gravel) down our cul-de-sac all winter long? They never plow it so why bother with the gravel which just sinks into the snow anyways.

Here’s a win-win idea for the city. Don’t gravel it and you won’t have to come and do a half ass street sweeping job either. But alas that takes common sense…. Not so common at city hall these days.

Lol. Don't gravel it. So that the other 9 residents in the culdesac call the city and complain that the main drag got graveled, but not the culdesac? More like lose/lose. Impossible to please everyone.

For the record, I'm a happy camper. My street got swept today.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by MG153

Likewise but my Collarbone instead

I don't get it. The reader would have otherwise assumed you broke puckluck's collarbone when you fell off your bike? Just because you got really mad about it or something?

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

LOL my buddy just posted this on his Facebook, taken this morning.



Good day for a plow!!!

Wouldn't want to go over budget on the snow removal would we. I can't believe people could defend the city cutting back on cleaning the streets when this is how they choose to spend the money otherwise.

I get that some of you Nenshi lovers take offense to any shots fired at city hall because you feel it's a shot at your beloved mayor but I honestly don't care about Nenshi. It's a problem with the Transportation Department and how they are using the funds and the mess they are making. They claim they go over budget yet pictures like this are common place as is sanding when there's less than a mm of snow. Wanting some accountability and responsibility by the usage of taxpayer money should never be met with appologies from fans of the mayor.

[strombad]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Wouldn't want to go over budget on the snow removal would we. I can't believe people could defend the city cutting back on cleaning the streets when this is how they choose to spend the money otherwise.

I get that some of you Nenshi lovers take offense to any shots fired at city hall because you feel it's a shot at your beloved mayor but I honestly don't care about Nenshi. It's a problem with the Transportation Department and how they are using the funds and the mess they are making. They claim they go over budget yet pictures like this are common place as is sanding when there's less than a mm of snow. Wanting some accountability and responsibility by the usage of taxpayer money should never be met with appologies from fans of the mayor.

It has nothing to do with Nenshi-the-beloved, just that your sort just enjoy complaining about minute occurrences and do whatever you can to fit them into whatever agenda you have.

I mean really, these pictures are "commonplace"?

Cool, go ahead and show me just two more.

City of well over a million people, a transportation department that is out of control, pictures of a tiny bit of snow being cleared are "commonplace," so, surely, there IS more than just 1 or 2, right?

EDIT: To be clear, I don't even care about the pictures, but painting anyone who disagrees with you as a "Nenshi fan" or apologist is just silly, and it's not lost on anyone how hard you're exaggerating to make a point.

[puckluck2]

Do we even know that was the City's machine? It's possible that someone hired a private company or maybe just a bored operator cleaning his own street.

I know when there was that big snowfall a couple friends who own a bunch of machines cleared their own streets.

[rohara66]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Lol. Don't gravel it. So that the other 9 residents in the culdesac call the city and complain that the main drag got graveled, but not the culdesac? More like lose/lose. Impossible to please everyone.

For the record, I'm a happy camper. My street got swept today.

I'm not too worried about it either as a big rain fall or two and most will wash down the storm drain. I also will be out there sweeping in front of my house but alas, most of the people on the street wont.

[AndyL]

They could be running the plow just to clear the curb area to help solve this frozen catch basin issue? (Wtf is that a drain?)

[strombad]

I think the key here is that the picture could be showing countless different things, but when you've got an anti-city hall agenda, it's instantly: "A joke! A waste of my tax dollars" grumble grumble grumble!"

[Slava]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Do we even know that was the City's machine? It's possible that someone hired a private company or maybe just a bored operator cleaning his own street.

I know when there was that big snowfall a couple friends who own a bunch of machines cleared their own streets.

I was with you guys until this. That's just an insult to my intelligence if you expect me to believe that someone would either (a) have his own business and decide to plow a dry road or (b) that someone would hire a private company to do that knowing it was already dry.

[strombad]

Originally Posted by Slava

I was with you guys until this. That's just an insult to my intelligence if you expect me to believe that someone would either (a) have his own business and decide to plow a dry road or (b) that someone would hire a private company to do that knowing it was already dry.

You've seen the picture right? It's just some guy clearing out the packed down ice from the curb, nobody is plowing a dry street.