Just checking to see if the Mayor declared a snow-emergency in Schenectady yet?

I know Albany did ...

NO! You need a leader to do that. "The good Lord brought it and the good Lord will take it away."

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Just checking to see if the Mayor declared a snow-emergency in Schenectady yet?

I know Albany did ...

MT : )  Apparently NOT . . .    http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2011/jan/12/0112_streets/

This is the guy "who knew what to do with snow"? What a laughingstock. Highest taxes-worst services. And going UP AGAIN 12% next year. But still working together!

     Maybe if the City plows traveled with the plow down streets would be more passable?

I guess you might need some of the City employees to live in the area. Maybe they could tell the Mayor how bad it is outside his own neighborhood.

I wouldn't matter if the city was declared a snow emergency or not. The parked cars just get plowed around.
No tow, no fine.

So they can't declare it an emergency when they don't follow their own rules?

He cant....didn't they pass a big fat tax on tows? or at least a fee to remove it from impound?...it's like a tax only it's a fee?...no jobs no money where
does one put all the vehicles

THe problem is that when an emergency is declared, as Albany does, there will be people who don't bother to inform themselves about resonsibilities where they live.  If the city really went and towed cars, the whiners would complain about the cost involved in having their cars towed.  And of course the complaints would go to the mayor.   The mayor wouldn't want that.

The mayor has said it costs money to declare a snow emergency.  Yeah?   Well, make the downtown businesses pay their taxes, take away the tax exemption and there might be money for city services to be carried out in the neighborhoods.

Big whoop that the gazette listed all  the priority streets.   The mayor chooses to ignore those rules and does NOT have cars towed.

Of course, DV will state that he's "been driving around all over the city" and he'll say the roads are great.   They are TERRIBLE.  The side streets, the plows weave in and out of the cars, that leaves a big mess

We were plowed (in the town on a side street)  somewhere between 5 and 5:30 this morning  There is a guy that works in my office who doesn't like to drive in the snow so I don't mind picking him up.  This was about 7 this morning and it's just a few doors in from Union near McClellan.  Here it was, one of these prioerity streets, A MAJOR ROUTE to the hospital and it was NOT touched at 7 in the morning.

Now, if someone can tell me how to put up a photo on here, I'll post a photo taken on a priority street about 4 pm today that proves the city does NOT tow cars, rather they just ignore the rules and plow around the cars.  What happens, then, is that people then come out in a day or so and shovel, and then they shovel out their cars, they leave the snow in the road.  And the plows will never come back.  It's OK if it warms up quickly after a snowy day, because it can melt.  But if it stays cold that snow gets run over and over and hard packed and the slightest warm up followed by a freeze results in melting and then turning to ice.  When it turns to ice, it damages cars.   Do you think for a minute that the city will pay for damage to cars?   Don't make me laugh.  The city fails to maintain the sewers & watermains, which get plugged and back up into peoples homes, flooding their basements, totally ruining their furnaces, hot water heaters, laundry, family room if that's the case and this will NOT pay for those damages.  And I'm NOT talking the flooding along the river which you would expect flooding.

Just another example of the city's lousy leadership

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Note sarcasm...   But its great when the streets arent plowed.  It fills in the potholes.  

Anywho, I didnt bother to go out today.  I got my car cleaned, moved it so the parking area could be plowed, moved it back and went back inside.