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How Well Does Your City Plow Roads?
After a good snowfall, citizens always have something to say—good or bad—about the job the city and county does with plowing. So what do you think?
In the little town of Richfield, when two or more inches of snow falls the city's plows hit the roads. Or do they? While I was perusing the City of Richfield's Facebook page last week, I stumbled upon a lively comment accusing the city of a sub-par plowing performance. "Seriously if this is what the City calls cleaning up our streets they ought to be ashamed of themselves," the citizen wrote. See the full comment in the photo box above. This reminded me of a post I received on Richfield Patch's Facebook page Jan. 28. "Plows? No plows in site in our neighborhood," Derek Brown wrote. "I hope they come and cleanup the slush before tomorrow night or we will have several inches of ice!" I've personally never given much thought to this until now…
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Mike B.
7:38 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
I thought Minneapolis was bad... St. Paul seems even worse re: snowplowing. Some of the side streets in St. Paul are still, on 2/19, almost impassable from the ruts, particularly in the Macalester College area. Add that to the atrocious pavement itself on many streets,and it's a wonder cars aren't stranded because their suspensions collapsed driving St. Paul's streets. Chris Coleman says "Come to… more ›