I am most curious about the thought process behind shoveling snow into huge piles blocking two lanes on Connecticut southbound in van ness.

NP here. I wonder if part of the problem is that the plows are operated by different contractors? So the coordination isn't very good.

When someone says that one road has been over-plowed, but the intersecting road not plowed at all, that makes me think that the contractor had specific responsibility for specific roads and isn't straying outside of that.

For what it's worth, I have friends in Baltimore who are dealing with the same issue. One road gets plowed. All the snow actually gets dumped in front of the intersecting road that hasn't been plowed at all.

I think it probably wouldn't hurt for cities to have a better plow plan to give to contractors when we get storms like this. But it takes time and resources for someone to come up with something like that (a coordinated strategy). And it's something that needs to be done before a storm. Usually, once we get through a storm, it's all forgotten. No one wants to spend money in the summer assessing the city street grid and devising a coordinated plow plan on the off-chance we get another storm like this in the coming winter.

Just my novice opinion.

Anonymous wrote:And where do you need to go that you are so important? If you were so important, they would have come to get you. Face it, you just are miserable and if it takes you a day to dig out a car you should be ashamed of yourself for not preparing and taking so long to dig it out.

Oh please, you don't have to be THAT important to have things to do.

We're all understanding that it would take some time to plow some streets, but it's been almost 3 days since the snow stopped falling. My street saw a snowplow once, but the guy gave up before he even started.

Every street should have received at least one plow by now. This is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

np -- the plows have been badly deployed. One of our streets (we are on a corner) has been repeatedly scraped down to asphalt and the other has been touched once. They are equally busy streets. The last plows came in an shoved ALL of the snow into the corners, so that the sidewalks are now inaccessible and it's like we are in a fort. Everyone will walk on the street because of this. i will try my best to tunnel through 6 feet of snow on the corner to get access to the street, but they really didn't seem to know or care about what they were trying to accomplish. Isn't there plow driver school? Boston knows how to do this.

Go back to Boston.

NYC schools opened on time on Monday. Real cities don't have this victims menatlity like DC residents do. Just sayin.

Just sayin, not so if you live in Queens or Brooklyn.. but believe the hype why don't you. Notice the media doesn't even bother to report on the Bronx...black lives matter!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

np -- the plows have been badly deployed. One of our streets (we are on a corner) has been repeatedly scraped down to asphalt and the other has been touched once. They are equally busy streets. The last plows came in an shoved ALL of the snow into the corners, so that the sidewalks are now inaccessible and it's like we are in a fort. Everyone will walk on the street because of this. i will try my best to tunnel through 6 feet of snow on the corner to get access to the street, but they really didn't seem to know or care about what they were trying to accomplish. Isn't there plow driver school? Boston knows how to do this.

Go back to Boston.

NYC schools opened on time on Monday. Real cities don't have this victims menatlity like DC residents do. Just sayin.

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

np -- the plows have been badly deployed. One of our streets (we are on a corner) has been repeatedly scraped down to asphalt and the other has been touched once. They are equally busy streets. The last plows came in an shoved ALL of the snow into the corners, so that the sidewalks are now inaccessible and it's like we are in a fort. Everyone will walk on the street because of this. i will try my best to tunnel through 6 feet of snow on the corner to get access to the street, but they really didn't seem to know or care about what they were trying to accomplish. Isn't there plow driver school? Boston knows how to do this.

+1. I'm not complaining, but our "local" (lowest road classification) DC street has also been plowed to blacktop, and for the last two evenings there have been multiple passes of the plows and even backhoes as they widen the lanes. However the nearby intersecting streets look like a trail in the middle. If they've seen one pass of the plow, I'd be surprised. It's a strange deployment of resources.

Anonymous wrote:Call 311 and report that your block has not been plowed.

I put in a request late yesterday afternoon. Our street got plowed about a half hour ago, with multiple passes, hooray! If I didn't have a sick toddler I would've gone outside and offered that guy a beer.

Now, I don't plan on going anywhere but it's nice to know I can now if necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

np -- the plows have been badly deployed. One of our streets (we are on a corner) has been repeatedly scraped down to asphalt and the other has been touched once. They are equally busy streets. The last plows came in an shoved ALL of the snow into the corners, so that the sidewalks are now inaccessible and it's like we are in a fort. Everyone will walk on the street because of this. i will try my best to tunnel through 6 feet of snow on the corner to get access to the street, but they really didn't seem to know or care about what they were trying to accomplish. Isn't there plow driver school? Boston knows how to do this.

Go back to Boston.

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

np -- the plows have been badly deployed. One of our streets (we are on a corner) has been repeatedly scraped down to asphalt and the other has been touched once. They are equally busy streets. The last plows came in an shoved ALL of the snow into the corners, so that the sidewalks are now inaccessible and it's like we are in a fort. Everyone will walk on the street because of this. i will try my best to tunnel through 6 feet of snow on the corner to get access to the street, but they really didn't seem to know or care about what they were trying to accomplish. Isn't there plow driver school? Boston knows how to do this.

On DCUM, everybody is an expert on everything.

As for plowing the snow from the road onto the sidewalk -- that's a different issue. As far as I know, every jurisdiction in the US does this. They shouldn't. Join All Walks DC and start working on getting DDOT to change their policy.

http://allwalksdc.org/

Anonymous wrote:Call 311 and report that your block has not been plowed.

yes, call 311 or the Mayor's office Ward 3 liaison. From walking around, my sense is that some streets have been poorly plowed, if plowed at all, while some other (non-major) streets have had multiple plow passes even though they don't carry much traffic. It seems somewhat random.

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

np -- the plows have been badly deployed. One of our streets (we are on a corner) has been repeatedly scraped down to asphalt and the other has been touched once. They are equally busy streets. The last plows came in an shoved ALL of the snow into the corners, so that the sidewalks are now inaccessible and it's like we are in a fort. Everyone will walk on the street because of this. i will try my best to tunnel through 6 feet of snow on the corner to get access to the street, but they really didn't seem to know or care about what they were trying to accomplish. Isn't there plow driver school? Boston knows how to do this.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

np -- the plows have been badly deployed. One of our streets (we are on a corner) has been repeatedly scraped down to asphalt and the other has been touched once. They are equally busy streets. The last plows came in an shoved ALL of the snow into the corners, so that the sidewalks are now inaccessible and it's like we are in a fort. Everyone will walk on the street because of this. i will try my best to tunnel through 6 feet of snow on the corner to get access to the street, but they really didn't seem to know or care about what they were trying to accomplish. Isn't there plow driver school? Boston knows how to do this.

Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

So you get a whole day to shovel out your car but only 2.5 days should be allowed to the city to clear every street within it's 68 square mile jurisdiction?

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Anonymous wrote:The snow stopped falling 60 hours ago and our side street in NW has not seen a plow. It will take another day to shovel out the car once a plow does come through. It was a lot of snow, but city had a week to prepare. Major fail Mayor Bowser.

I truly don't understand this "the city/Metro/whoever had a week to prepare" argument. You can't plow until it has actually snowed, regardless of how well you planned in advance.

But resources should have been brought in from states that did not get snow. There is a snow melter on the way from Indiana, why was it not already in place? You should have higher expectations for your government.

So Pittsburgh should have packed up all of its snow plows and sent them to DC? Why would Pittsburgh do this? What money would DC use to pay for this?

Oh I don't know. Maybe she could use the revenue from the 4000 parking tickets written on Friday. Or she could apply for federal disaster assistance. Or have a bake sale. Leadership is about solving problems.

Good news! She already has asked for federal disaster assistance! But you can't use money you get after a storm to pay for snow plows before a storm. That applies to parking tickets and bake sales, too.

Your thinking seems to be: "My street hasn't been plowed, somebody oughta have done something, I don't know what but something!!!!" I'm sorry that your street hasn't been plowed, but I don't have much patience with that.

Have you shoveled your sidewalk?