How was snow clearance for Joe Ganim’s first major storm?
- Good (67%, 185 Votes)
- Fair (18%, 50 Votes)
- Poor (15%, 43 Votes)
Total Voters: 278
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OIB Poll: Ganim’s Snow Day
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If Finch were in office I would still be trapped in my house.
*** Overall and still not done; I thought the city did a good job with this first snowstorm of the year. However, yesterday in the West Side the city seemed to be picking at random secondary streets to plow. So they had two cop cars go down the street real slow with their emergency sirens on and off to get car owners outside so they could move their vehicles to the other side of the road. Now being yesterday the 24th of Jan, you would think you’d have to move your cars to the even side of the road but that’s not what they were doing, they had the car owners moving their cars to the odd side of the road. Also, the police vehicles had a tow truck following them directly behind and the driver would ask the car owners if they could not get their cars out of the snowed-in space, he could tow them out for $50 a car! I guess it’s better than getting a ticket or getting towed to the city yard but man, $50 a car is a bit much for people in the ‘hood! You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t sometimes with these snowstorms that leave people in need of help, no? ***
Sounds like a snow job to me.
Thank you for doing our driveways, that was a nice touch and I noticed on the news Mayor Ganim was out on the streets making sure there were no problems. Excellent job on my street!
My neighbors were in snow heaven. It’s been a long time since they’ve seen this efficiency. Thanks John R. and Joe G.
Overall, I would say it was good. There was a little confusion over the alternate side parking. City website saying stay on odd side until further notice but some reports of the police were following the standard odd/even day etc; yesterday being an even day, some reports of the police enforcing parking on the even side and ticketing/towing cars on the odd side. This was in Black Rock. BIG picture for me is there are TOO many cars parked on Bridgeport streets. The P&Z and ESPECIALLY the ZBA need to be reminded to keep us the PARK CITY, not the PARKING LOT CITY. Every parking variance seems to be granted by the ZBA.
Hmmm, compared to other towns a lot of work still needs to be done cleaning the street better but compared to previous years they did a much better job!
Based on what I’ve seen I want to thank the workers of Bridgeport Public Works and Mayor Ganim for a good job. As for those who said they did a poor job I would like to know in what area of Bridgeport there was poor service.
Also thanks to the state public works for their service.
Frank,
Snowstorms of some severity are where you catch the real import of the density of housing units. When older neighborhoods were developed at first with a mix of single- and multi-unit residences, multi-car families were not contemplated as trolleys and buses as well as walking to work were possibilities.
Not so 70 or more years later where property owners have taken full advantage of zoning rules (and then some with more lenient board rulings) so properties cannot handle the automobiles owned by residents and street parking becomes a necessity on streets that were not designed to handle two-way traffic and two-sided parking. We are not the first town to face this. What to do? What are best practices when you get to this point? Time will tell.
John Marshal Lee, you are absolutely correct with the problems brought on by multi-family houses built in the early 1900s. I myself own a multi-family and the only answer would be for zoning to allow a greater amount of property to be used and greater flexibility in the design of parking spaces on the property. BTW, I will definitely be calling you one of these days. This weekend was not a good weekend.
Bravo!
Wait a minute, folks. Finch’s storm was ?30+? inches on top of already snow-choked streets. Ganim’s was ~11 inches and the first snow of the year. 30+ inches is an exponentially bigger problem. Plus, Finch’s storm was on a weekday and started midday, when everyone was at work and the roads were full of cars. Standby city plow drivers were doing their real jobs. Ganim had the advantage of having the entire city workforce at his disposal.
NY City got 27 inches and their roads are not clear yet. That is more like the storm Finch faced than the weather BPT got this weekend.
With the havoc of the last storm fresh in their minds, more people heeded parking rules and road closures. The two storms and how each mayor handled them are not comparable.
The BIG question is, how much of our money did Ganim spend to look so good?
*** Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t! Can’t win in this city of complainers who vote certain political candidates into office only to turn around and talk about them like dogs when they don’t meet up to their personal expectations, no? *** Start changing the political process at the local town committee level first, then move up the ladder with the rest of the local Reps who represent your districts, no? ***
That’s my Ralphie, call it as it is. Ditto!
The parking ban was lifted yesterday afternoon. So what does the City/Public Works do? In a stunning move, they send out the plows to widen the streets. They lift the parking ban AND make it easier for residents to park on the streets. Imagine that. I am not used to this City making any kind of sense, these are uncharted waters. 🙂