Comments on: UNREAL VIDEO ROUNDUP: The NYC Sanitation Department Hard At Work (Not)

By: esmith92000

esmith92000 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:09:36 +0000

You guys think you have it bad. I was on my way back to Monsey from a chasuna in Lakewood, and spent from 8:30 pm Sunday night until 10 am Monday morning in my car along with about 200 other cars on the Garden State Parkway North, without so much as a policeman coming by asking if anyone needed to be evacuated or anything. Finally, just after 10 am a State Policeman came by on the local lanes, which were open, and told us to abandon our cars, and he commandeered some busses to take us to the rest area (where at least it was warm, they had food and bathrooms, etc.) and they towed out cars out at about 5 pm. You may be stuck in your houses, but at least you have bathrooms, heat, and food.

As to not letting people on the streets during a snowstorm, there ought to be a separate test of snow driving and a special sticker on cars saying they are allowed to drive in snow. It doesn’t matter if a car has 4 wheel drive or not. It matters whether the driver knows how to drive in snow and has experience. At no point, even in the deepest snow, was I stuck, except that the people in front of me stopped their cars all over the place and blocked the highway, and the highway department had sent plows, but to clear the road they needed towtrucks, which they seems to have very few of, because they only used 5 to pull out all those hundreds of cars when they finally started on Monday.

By: rebmoish

rebmoish — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:02:49 +0000

The Problem is thwe Bloomberg does not know how to deal with people. All he know is how to raise taxes and fire/demote workers pushing morale very low.

By: manishma

manishma — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:22:12 +0000

To #7
Where were all the plows Sunday evening. Not one truck was on the streets at least in Brooklyn. A whole borough is not a small sampling.

By: YITZCHOKY

YITZCHOKY — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:19:31 +0000

Mayor have you seen this. Mayor the trucks sitting for hours still have their jobs?????

By: flatbusher

flatbusher — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:14:27 +0000

Insane to make a judgment of the entire effort by a small sampling. Based on what do you extrapolate that the entire Sanitation is lazy or inept. Of course the cleanup could have been better, but no one will ever completely happy anyway.

By: smartcookie

smartcookie — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:35:03 +0000

I couldn’t stop laughing from this video. Insane it is!! Insane our mayor is!! Insane our city is!! Insane our whole country is!!

By: phillybubby

phillybubby — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:01:34 +0000

Come on over to Philly. We offer affordable houses, lower real estate taxes, schools, pizza, etc. We’re about an hour from Lakewood and less than 2 hours from Brooklyn (it’s actually shorter from Philly to NY than from NY to Philly).

By: tracht_ gut

tracht_ gut — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:41:12 +0000

Wow really wishing I live someplace else right now!! I am soo disappointed by our city!!! I used to be proud of being a part of new york!! And now…. I’m just speechless!! This is an embarrassment!!

By: phillybubby

phillybubby — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:52:20 +0000

New York City should have been plowing and salting the streets from the beginning of the storm. Had they done that, their trucks would not have gotten stuck (nor would ambulances and other emergency vehicles). They also should not have allowed any non-emergency vehicles on the streets on Sunday so that the plowing could get done without interference from stuck vehicles. Although we had less snow (about a foot) most of our streets (even the narrow one that I live on) have been plowed and salted numerous times. WAY TO GO MAYOR NUTTER!

By: apushatayid

apushatayid — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:25:34 +0000

I wonder if this is a union work stoppage to protest recent layoffs of sanitation dept. employees.