From city Communications Director Brett Broesder:
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch declared a Snow Emergency starting at midnight.
“As always, we’re preparing for the worst, and hoping for the best. Our city has rallied together time and time again this winter to successfully beat back potentially harmful road conditions caused by the snow. We’re asking once again that we work together to ensure that after the storm, families across the city are able to get to where they need to go safely,” said Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch.
Since Thursday, March 5 is an odd day on the calendar, folks parking in Bridgeport at midnight and thereafter must move their cars to the ‘odd-numbered’ side of the street. During a Snow Emergency, there’s no parking on Snow Emergency streets.
“Our crews have been doing a great job plowing in the midst of a rough winter. But there is still snow built up on many streets due to the sheer volume of snow that’s hit our city streets. Mayor Finch is putting the Snow Emergency in place to ensure the new snowfall this afternoon is cleared, and our plow trucks can effectively navigate our streets around snow that still exists from previous storms,” said Bridgeport’s Public Facilities Director Jorge Garcia.
The Bridgeport Emergency Operations Center (581 Washington Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.) is activated at this time, and the following locations should be utilized for assisting in the Snow Emergency Declaration/Parking Ban:
Ø Surface parking lots across the street from the Ballpark at Harbor Yard.
Ø North End Library, 3455 Madison Ave.
Ø Veterans Memorial Park (entrance off Madison Ave.).
Ø Municipal Parking Lot located on the corner of Fairfield Avenue and Jetland Street (adjacent to 2895 Fairfield Ave.).
Ø Health Department at 752 East Main St.
Ø Lot adjacent to the former Waltersville School, 95 Gilmore St.
Ø All City Schools after school hours.In order to get word out to Bridgeporters about the Snow Emergency taking effect at 2:00PM today, we’re utilizing our Reverse 911 system.
Click here to listen to the informational recording about the Snow Emergency from the Office of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch.
More information can be found at: www.bridgeportct.gov/snow.
PURE AND UTTER BULLSHIT.
Andy, John Marshall Lee has put the fear of God in Bill Finch with his shovel protest.
I was thinking the same thing–the snowstorm that shutdown the city will be brought up time and time again during the next mayoral race. If it isn’t then whoever runs against Finch is a dope.
My wife tells me “the snow shovel” may have disappeared from our home in the past month. Sure, someone may have seen it standing by the house and believed they needed it more than we did, but I find it more likely the blizzard blew it from its perch and buried it. A few warm days and we shall know for sure.
The shovel is not only a memory jogger for the storm the City mishandled and the feedback that was never given, but each time I get an emergency call it is a reminder of leaders who cannot determine major and minor challenges. And they are unresponsive to how much their communication system costs the City each time it is used.
In much the same way, when I hear Brandon prattle on about Forstone Development (if I have figured this out correctly, Brandon was in high school when Forstone first approached the City) for the 30th time, I wonder why no one is upset about the production of such ads by firms outside the City, about the advertising dollars being spent at media outlets in this election year, all at the taxpayer expense. $250,000 here or $300,000 there and the sums mount up. And neither the Mayor nor Brett B has the savvy to thank the taxpayers for providing these funds to share his good news.
Will anyone start a fund to terminate such blitzes after a certain number of repetitions? Time will tell.
God knows, we all could use a shovel and not just for the snow.