Matt’s bragging again.
I know Belmar always does the bestest, most fantastic job of everything, but just for yucks I decided to take a ride this morning and see how some of our neighboring towns are doing one week after the storm.
First stop Spring Lake:
Sheesh! What are they doing over there?
Next stop Sea Girt:
Somewhere under there is a sidewalk. Very poor job guys.
We now go to Manasquan:
Somebody should be fired for this!
And finally Point Pleasant:
I give up.
(Reprint with permission of the Coast Star)
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Hey, at least the omnipotent mayor did not claim that he caused the snowfall to cease.
Spring Lake and Sea Girt only require sidewalk snow clearing in business districts.
Is there a public sidewalk ordinance that includes clearance/removal of snow, ice and debris in Belmar? If so how about glaciers impeding motorist’s triangulation vision of oncoming traffic/pedestrians?
You’re killing me!
#3 – Years ago when I lived up in NYC, I signed up for snow clearance for the Dept. of Sanitation. I worked 10 hrs. and my job was shoveling the street corners on a block so people (once we got done with a corner we’d move to the next corner and do that one) could walk across the street without there being big mounds of snow there. I didn’t get paid until June or July though.
“Down to a science” ??? That’s funny !
Belmar is barely one square mile. Common sense and competence should be able to guide the town regarding snow cleanup – not science.
What frustrates me is walking down a cleared sidewalk to a corner that is blocked in by piled up snow, then having to backtrack and go out to the street through someone’s driveway, if possible. If there is a rule regarding clearing sidewalks, why not go a step further and state that the walk through to the street on both sides, if a corner, should be cleared as well. That would be common sense.
The DPW workers get paid a very handsome salary. Salary includes rate per hour, pension costs, fica taxes paid by town, futa taxes paid by town, OT, health costs paid by town, paid sick leave, paid vacation etc. They better do a good job of clearing the damn streets.
Are Beach Utility funds being used?
#7 – That’s exactly what I meant. The DPW guys do okay but we understand it’s all about them driving plows. They’re not going to take it well to be asked to shovel the 4 corners at the end of each block. So hire young guys who want the job but make them supply their own shovels (otherwise the shovels would grow legs and disappear if the town provided them). They could also shovel down high mounds at the corners that interfere with drivers vision.
the DPW does a good job with the snow plows …. the Code Red order to move cars is ineffective.
The DPW does an amazing job in the snow! Hats off to Mike Campbell and his crew.
#12 – Sir, the DPW does an okay job. What thae won’t do is take shovels in their hands (I think we can agree on that)to shovel pathways at the corners or level out the mounds bloking the vision of drivers proceeding into intersections. That’s why the town should hire young guys who want to do that wurk at the corners.
The DPW did a terrible job on my block. They left so much snow on both sides of the street that cars could not park on the street.
(13)Tom, unfortunately I am out on the roads in the snow for the past 30 years. Belmar was a disaster when I would return home after plowing for days on end, until Mike Cambell took over. I will give you that corners are not the greatest, but the snow removal is top notch every where else. Top 3 towns I drive in during the storms.
Does Avon-by-the-Sea DPW shovel crosswalk intersections and handicapped sidewalk entrances?
#12 What’s up ???
#15 – I acknowledged the DPW did an okay job. What I was talking about is the act of putting ones hands on a actual shovel. Obviously, the younger members of the DPW would have to be heavily sedated if asked to do such a thing (I think we can all agree thae wouldn’t take it well). It was the corners I was talking about for through foot traffic (yes, people actually do walk even nowadays) and drivers vision.
The people in Avon do not shovel the DPW does it. Their garbage is picked up at the back yard entrance. No can rolling around in streets. It is @ very nice place to live.
#7 After the sidewalk is shoveled the plow goes by and undoes all of the work that was done on the corner. You can’t expect people to wait on the corner and clear it everytime a plow goes by.
Thank you DPW workers for performing the job you are well paid to do.
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