Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Paul Arnold on December 29, 2012 at 3:33pm

My street is not too bad  ( Penhurst )  but the snow keeps falling.. I saw something interesting this morning.. The city came by to pick up garbage and recycling.. What I saw from my window is one truck  ( Actually Truck # 24) picking up both garbage AND recycliables.. and from what I could see it all got compacted as garbage.. In the past there have been two seperate truck  one for garbage and one for recyclables.. I have not had a chance to call 311 about it yet..  After all of the time and effort to clean and sort my recyclables  they end up in the dump.  Has anyone else noticed this??

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Inge Mallory on December 30, 2012 at 8:29am

There a message on the news on Thursday that due to the snow plowing recycling would be cancelled this week. My trash was not picked up until late afternoon on Saturday. 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by MacClurg Vivian on December 30, 2012 at 8:21am

Winbourne Road is doing pretty good for a side road.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Inge Mallory on December 30, 2012 at 8:32am

Sheldon Terrace is passable. The intersection with Stanfield  St is messy. Someone plowed snow from a driveway into the intersection. Not nice thing to do. Isn't there some regulation about pushing snow into the street?

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Bill Nichthauser on December 31, 2012 at 6:51am

It's against the law, and, if you are not afraid of your safety (retaliation), call 911 or the NSC office and request to be put through to an officer IMMEDIATElY.  If the perpertrators are not ticketed, at least they will be told to remove the snow from the street.  You can request that the police do not come to your house, and that your name remain anonymous. 

I would take note of whose driveway was plowed if the police cannot get there while the plow person is in the act.  I am sure that an officer will speak to the homeowner/renter, and ask that the plow person return and make things right.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Inge Mallory on January 1, 2013 at 6:43am

Thank you Bill. I will make note of this.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Bill Nichthauser on December 31, 2012 at 6:41am

Grandview Terrace (a dead end street off Genesee St.--the first south of Brooks, which, going toward Elmwood includes Arvine Pk., Oakhill View, the new housing, and Arvine Heights, is very small and narrow besides being on an incline towards the dead end.  When they get around to it, the plowing is nothing to write home about.  When a cleanup is finally done, the street is well plowed.  However, the impacted snow makes for poor traction, and people get stuck, especially those who use our street as a parking lot and do not live here and are unfamiliar with such hazards.A garbage truck was stuck here for quite a while.  Getting the powers-that-be to spread salt is like pulling teeth. We have a good many ill/disabled people here, but the city seems to have a deaf ear to that. So good luck if an emergency vehicle must come here!   Police cars, medi vans, etc. have also gotten stuck.  Remember, this is Rochester.  Those in city hall don't seem to give a damn about the neighborhoods, or the "little" things that really count.  And the sidewalk plows: Years ago all of us on the street signed a petetion to eliminate their coming down our street.  Everyone shoveled in front of their houses.  These contracters completely messed things up in addition to taking out parts of lawns.  The city had a deaf ear to our request also.  Something about a mandate and liability concerns.  Ha!  Look how many people use the sidewalks on the main drags, e.g., Genesee Street, Thurston Rd.  It's the "small" things, in addition to safety, poverty that contribute to what could otherwise be a vibrant community, which it is, in many ways. 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Margy Meath on January 1, 2013 at 11:27am

After almost NO plowing, the city came through this morning and deposited 8-10 inches of wet, heavy snow at the end of my driveway.... It's "heart attack" snow. If they had kept up with plowing the way i kept up with my driveway and sidewalks the streets would be clear. While i am thankful that the street if FINALLY getting clear i am left wondering how much overtime is being spent today to do what could/should have been done all week.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Judi Baker on January 5, 2013 at 9:07am

Well said Bill! It's the small things, 'broken windows' that slowly break down a neighborhood! When we discreetly 'whisper' or mention about the small things to the powers to be, we are usually ignored, then  we we act 'deranged' about the big things, we are labeled those choice names by the same powers to be!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Bill Nichthauser on January 6, 2013 at 4:17pm

Or we are told that the matter will be addressed to such-and-such a comittee or entity, and to be PATIENT.  Either I am turning into a cynic in my old age, or I am finally seeing things the way they are.  Meetings, meetings and more meetings about the "little" things and/or the big ones seem to produce little other than paperwork for someone in the administration to shelve.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Judi Baker on January 6, 2013 at 6:15pm

Bill, we are finally seeing things for what they really are as you stated.  You and I both have attended more 'community' meetings (many times together) than we care to count, and how much further ahead is the community? Pursue your music while I pursue my photography, cooking, gardening and camping!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Bill Nichthauser on January 9, 2013 at 3:20pm

That I shall do, Judi.  I don't know what happened to a "reply" I had almost finished.  It's in cyberspace.  Things are better here with me.  I can tolerate the plowing, etc.  But the things that made life miserable for me have been resolved, some of their own accord, and a big one with the enormous help of Todd Bullard who was our county legislator at the time.  Without his kindness and effort, I still might have found railroad ballast in my house having come through smashed windows.  Nice to come home from work to that.  The county promised to clean up their mess after having completed that big sewer project.  They tried to pull a fast one by leaving that area between Brooks and Elmwood worse than it had been where robberies, rapes, you name it, were all too frequent.  I am forever thankful for Todd's efforts and time.  I am forever unthankful to the person in government who nixed the cleanup (after the railroad tracks were abonned) in 1986. We had to wait until 1998 for that cleanup. 

• ▶ Reply