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Snow and Road improvment

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Printed Date: Nov 22 2024 at 7:55pm


Topic: Snow and Road improvment
Posted By: ktf1179
Subject: Snow and Road improvment
Date Posted: Jan 21 2014 at 11:33am
With all this snow that has been falling this year, does anyone know how badly the snow removal budget has been hit? Will the city start taking away from the Road Improvement Fund?


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Posted By: Paul Nagy
Date Posted: Jan 21 2014 at 11:36am
Who knows? But the public works department has done an outstanding job of keeping the roads plowed and salted this winter.
      pn

Posted By: ktf1179
Date Posted: Jan 21 2014 at 1:12pm
They have been doing an okay job in my neighborhood, however I cringe every time I see the plow in use because I see more and more potholes being created by them . Just drive drive down Boylston, then turn right onto Dickens, and you will see what I mean. The roads are actually smoother with snow on them.

Posted By: acclaro
Date Posted: Jan 21 2014 at 1:27pm
The city has done an outstanding job....outstanding.
 
I was shoveling a few weeks ago and the driver kindly moved the pile off my end of driveway (asphalt).
 
  


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'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.' - Winston Churchill

Posted By: ktf1179
Date Posted: Jan 21 2014 at 1:30pm
But as for response time on clearing the roads they have been great. I just wish people would move there cars off the street when it snows, so more of the roads get cleared.

Posted By: acclaro
Date Posted: Jan 21 2014 at 4:52pm
While I compliment the work by the drivers (snow removal), this winter and others, reflect the mindless thought process since 1986, of not putting funds into street repair. You cannot ,live in Ohio, with the horrible winters that can be brutal, and not set aside funds for road repair post winter. You just cannot.
The snow and 0 degree weather has revealed the folly of this inaction since 1986.   

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'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.' - Winston Churchill

Posted By: over the hill
Date Posted: Jan 21 2014 at 7:30pm
What else is new. And still the present "powers that be" still haven't learned from the past. Their blinders get bigger every year.

Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jan 22 2014 at 8:05am
On the flip side of this positive discussion, concerning the job the Middletown public works folks did, I direct your attention to the streets in the Oaks and the surrounding streets adjacent to the Oaks. (Haven't been over to Manchester Manor as yet) Not necessarily the best job one could offer. You be the judge. I also direct your attention to the condition of Manchester Rd. JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS up to Rt. 25 versus Manchester INSIDE the city limits. Seems to be a difference in effort at this location. I haven't seen the road conditions in other parts of the city.

The importance and prioritization of the condition of the roads? Little to no effort since the 80's. The concentration is on the downtown while 95% of the city is neglected. The theme of this current administration........Ignoring basic issues while focusing on items of secondary importance. They just flat out don't know how to evaluate the city's situation and focus on the basics.....or, worse yet, understand, but don't see a need to place the basics as a number one priority. Council hasn't been in tune with the city's real needs for decades......and it will continue until the voters clean house and sit competent people who will hire equally competent people to occupy the city building.

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I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.

Posted By: ktf1179
Date Posted: Jan 27 2014 at 8:15am
Ok I now retract my previous statement. This past Saturday and Sunday the salt trucks did not even bother to plow our streets except for the main ones. Granted I did not expect to have salt to be applied, at least they could have drive down our side streets and at least plow the snow so it could melt, instead we now have a sheet of ice on our road. Thanks for half assing it again Middletown. Way to save the tax payers money.


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