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Bloomberg has yet to do a snow removal as competently as Giuliani. His arrogance does not help the situation. Sanitation really fucked this one up big time. Bloomberg is in his corner, the Union in it's corner, and we are fucked. This is the worst response I have seen.
all the other snow removals have been fine. but giuliani was more of an outerboroughs guy than bloomberg.
i think it's more that they've had budget cuts and they prioritized.
we apparently weren't the priority.
They weren't fine, they were barely adequate. There is Federal Funding that goes directly to snow removal Jillian, at least in part. I'm close enough to the Hospital here to have gotten superior snow removal through the years. Salt trucks, big snow plows, even in the worst storms, and I've seen them much worse than this, worst case 48 hours after the snow starts falling, usually at least one salt truck ahead or during the fall. By now, we would normally have had 4 to 8 passes. This round with the snow hitting Saturday, we had our first and only plow, 2:30 AM Wednesday morning. No garbage pick up Fri or Tues. I'm sure it will be a more than few day's before that is cleared up. No salt, causes black Ice, causes the Ice Packs that are getting cars stuck and accidents all over the city, as people dig out. Gross negligence. 3 Stooges stupid. Did Sanitation do this to make Bloomberg look bad? Nothing would surprise me.
They weren't fine. The Union Workers purposely slowed down and did not fully complete snow removal.
Sources said budget cuts were also at the heart of poor planning for the blizzard last weekend. The city broke from its usual routine and did not call in a full complement on Saturday for snow preparations in order to save on added overtime that would have had to be paid for them to work on Christmas Day.
The result was an absolute collapse of New York's once-vaunted systems of clearing the streets and keeping mass transit moving under the weight of 20 inches of snow.
The Sanitation Department last night denied there was a concerted effort to slow snow removal.
"There are no organized or wildcat actions being taken by the sanitation workers or the supervisors," said spokesman Matthew Lipani.
Joseph Mannion, president of the union that represents agency supervisors, said talk of a slowdown "is hogwash." But he admitted there is "resentment out there" toward Mayor Bloomberg and his administration because of budget cuts.
His counterpart at the rank-and-file's union, Harry Nespoli, has also denied there is a job action, though he admitted his guys are working lucrative 14-hour shifts.
Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser said only: "We would hope this is not the case."
But multiple Sanitation Department sources told The Post yesterday that angry plow drivers have only been clearing streets assigned to them even if that means they have to drive through snowed-in roads with their plows raised.
And they are keeping their plow blades unusually high, making it necessary for them to have to run extra passes, adding time and extra pay.
One mechanic said some drivers are purposely smashing plows and salt spreaders to further stall the cleanup effort. ...
Sanitation workers selfishly slowed down the cleanup - NYPOST.com