What Snow Removal

The winter rolls along at a good pace and the plowing of the Towns streets and sidewalks stinks. We as taxpayers bought new trucks, plows and spreaders where the hell are they? All of the side streets remain snow covered and quite icy, the sidewalks are a disaster for the children to use to get to school. It seems the DPW superintendants policy is wait until the storm ends and go plow. The safety of the

motoring public is not an issue to try to save money on. As taxpayers we deserve the action of DPW that they be out pretreating before the storm hits, and to stay on it until it is over. The plows should push all the snow back as close to the curbs as possible to keep the catch basins open for flooding, then and only then should the sidewalks get cleaned. I would rather see the money spent on salt for winter than the great brand new street sweeper the Town bought last year and sits under a silver tarp in the DPW yard. If it was used more than once I would be surprised. The taxpayers deserve the best available roadways to get to and from work seeing they foot the bill for all these services we supposedly get.