Under the republican mayor, Schenectady instituted a snow emergency parking plan just like Albany.  It's the odd-even system.   Park on only on one side of the street for 24 hours, plow the opposite side.  Then change sides.  THe idea is to facilitate better plowing, make streets more passable, eliminate snowbanks that sit kind of in the middle of the road that end up getting driven and hard packed which causes ruts in the road, making driving as rough as driving over potholes which can really do damage to cars.

Under the dem mayor, there has not been one snow emergency declared.  

The final such snow emergency declaration made by the former republican mayor resulted in the dem councilman Allen whiing and moaning beause the residents over in the hill had their cars towed --they failed to abide by the law, (many whined that they didn't know, yet there are signs all over, it's in the newspaper, on the radio, on the TV, and police go through with bull horns telling people to move their cars).  

Heck, under this dem mayor, cars sit for weeks buried in snow (even though general parking rules, i.e., even in the absence of snow, prohibit parking over a certain number of hours), and the cars buried are not only not towed, they don't even receive tickets.

And so, the mayor refuses to properly clear the streets.  

Can't spend money to properly clear the streets but wants to spend money on NON-ESSENTIAL things like gin mills and bike trails

He refuses to do anything. Mayor SOS delegates everything to Sharon Jordan and acts like a fool when residents asks where's the attorney? Story changes on a daily basis.

      Back in the day-this is how they did snowplowing-they'd have the police go down a street like Brandywine with bullhorns telling everyone to move parked cars. Tow trucks would follow then the street was cleaned to the curb on both sides. Now they do nothing and allow streets to narrow to one way. Instead of the tin cup letters to nonprofits this would be a way to generate revenue. Naah, the DEMS would rather raise taxes, institute new fees and jump up and down about unused trails.

The roads look good ... this wasn't that bad of a storm ... but the Nattering Nayboobs of Negativity need
something to cry and moan about today.    Maybe Santa should have brought them some laxative for
Christmas -- I think most of their whining is due to chronic constipation.

Maybe we can fix a plow to Mayor SOS taxpayer's JEEP? At least the well traveled path from his home to City Hall would be plowed clean.

     The roads look great in Rott & Nisky-in the City-NOT! Avoiding the many pot holes is hard enough without snow cover.

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The roads look good ... this wasn't that bad of a storm ... but the Nattering Nayboobs of Negativity need
something to cry and moan about today.    Maybe Santa should have brought them some laxative for
Christmas -- I think most of their whining is due to chronic constipation.

I haven't gone out today - probably will not until tomorrow.

But this is one topic that gets me enraged.

The ridiculous incompetence of the leadership to declare a snow emergency in past snowstorms cannot be ignored by fair minded individuals.

I'm struggling to constrain my language to something appropriate while still being able to express my severe displeasure over said in competence.

It is completely inexcusable.

(Although I do not yet have enough evidence to suggest it is required - my street, which happens to be a fairly high priority street I think as it is near Ellis McClellan Campus, and ambulences go up and down my street all day...  Still looks a mess outside)

While rotterdam's roads have been historically and continue to be pristine, the cities roads have been and continue to be a disaster!! Between the pot holes, the ruts and the snow piles around the abandoned care (that should be towed), it  is a hazard to drive in the city. Some roads become dangerously impassable.

It is a challenge to drive in the city WITHOUT a snow storm. A snow storm just becomes the pathetic icing on the pathetic cake!

Just to update and be completely open and fair - I just checked my street and it looks a lot better than it did a couple of hours ago.

At the same time due to the extreme incompetence of city hall leadership, in more severe storms my road street has been poor for days / weeks - basically until it warmed up and the hardened snow on the side of the road (but still on the road) melted.

Absolute morons when it comes to snow emergency declarations.  (Not for this instance, but for others)

Anyone been down in the stockade neighborhood today?

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It is a challenge to drive in the city WITHOUT a snow storm. A snow storm just becomes the pathetic icing on the pathetic cake!

     Roads narrow to cow paths. Residents refuse to walk anywhere but down the middle of the road. Pot holes and chuck holes are covered in-freeze over and present additional hazards.

     Roads that are an unpaved mess are impossible to plow. Money has been diverted to nonprofit giveaways. One bad area is Union Ave-where abandoned cars stay plowed in until Spring.

The stockade is decent.

But last night, there was barely an inch of snow and the driver plowed my street FOUR times within like 30 minutes. WTF? And the same occured last week or whenever it was when there was barely a dusting.

The salt though? Yikes! Piles of it! Then DSIC went thru the neighborhood after the dusting (and today) and dumped shovelsful on each and every corner where they just installed the handicap accessible curbs. What a waste and destructive to the concrete. I guess you could call it "Job Security" for them.

What I would like to know is why people park on the streets when they have an empty driveway.  How idiotic is that?  And yes the streets were a mess because i had to make a trip over there to take care of a friend in need.  Maybe State Street was clear but the side streets were not.  And once again, the street I moved away from, was the usual disaster.  They hardly ever plow that street until its completely blocked off with snow and cars.  I remember a few years ago, they didnt plow it for two days and it was so bad that even the plow got stuck and another got stuck trying to pull it out.  I have pictures of that mess.  

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Have you SEEN some of the potholes around Schenectady - better yet - can you even see the BOTTOM of some of the potholes?

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Have you SEEN some of the potholes around Schenectady - better yet - can you even see the BOTTOM of some of the potholes?

Those aren't potholes, they are happy bumps.  They are by design by city planners for added driving pleasure.  Please, don't be so negative.TIC

I think I saw a car in the bottom of one of the potholes.