bingo!
i will never ever shovel the street again!
i was doing the right thing & assisting my neighbors as well as the public works plowers. This resulted in burns road not being plowed & we, the residents having to alter our lives & spend our time searching for a parking street!
uggghhhhh!!!

We continue to work on snow clean up issues. We thank you for your patience.

My son was almost hit by a car on Burns Street yesterday because of the narrow street. There has already been at least one accident as I see broken headlights in the street. I really don't know where to turn to anymore. Are we waiting for someone to get killed?

I am sooo sorry to hear that.
I have been reaching out to our alderman, clickfixit and also my landlord and as of today nothing has been done to take care of Burns Road or the sidewalks on Whitney Avenue and Burns Road???
I share your frustration and most of all your genuine concern for the well being of all of us residents who have to live with this.

I have asked the city to address the sight line issues at Burns/Whitney.

The city has one crew working on snow clearance now. There are several reasons for only one crew. First, normal public works crews are back doing trash pick up and second, the city was paying $250,000/day on outside contractors removing snow. Given that we already were looking at a significant deficit before the storm, continuing to pay that amount every day is a difficult choice to make. Of course, ideally we would have all streets cleared much better than they are now. Ideally we would own better equipment. But owning the resources to address this type of rare occurrence in the past might not have been the best financial decision. Now with increased occurrences of these type of weather events, it will be something we will be talking about.

Most important is site lines and safety so that is where the City will be focusing. People around the city are upset about the situation. I wish I had a better answer for you.

Justin Elicker
Ward 10 Alderman
justin.elicker@gmail.com

as always, thank you for any & all of your help justin!

I appreciate your help too Justin. My concern is that Burns isn't just a side road it is a shortcut road to avoid the light on East Rock Road. People already speed down it without the snow. To alleviate the problem, it doesn't need a payloader/bulldozer; it needs 10 minutes work by a plow.

I give up!

My husband fixed the sight lines this morning because the city has done NOTHING! Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the horrible plowing job.

I wish we could secede to Hamden.....

After weeks of clean up, we are closing snow issues. Though we worked to resolve all snow safety issues, if we missed yours, please resubmit with more information to See Click Fix. Thanks.

THANK YOU so very much for plowing Burns Road!
Better late than never!