Friday, January 10, 2014

Jersey City's gonna get a poor grade on today's ice removal

Johnny took a nice looooong walk through neighborhoods and main streets and side streets and two things were clear; 1) The city gets a poor performance grade and 2) People, throw salt on your walks or chip away the ice. Yes, it IS your responsibility. If Steve Fulop and Candice Osborne want to continue their good work on the quality of life in regards to pedestrian traffic in and near downtown, the city needs a new or needs to prod the current sleeping compliance officer. When was the last fine the city ever gave out tickets for no snow removal or ice treatment?

Since a picture is worth a thousands words, here's a two thousand word essay to piss you off and maybe you'll call city hall. Note the ice outside One Evertrust Plaza. There is ice completely surrounding the sidewalks around the building. Women in heels came out of said building, hit the sidewalk and did do some slipping and sliding. Hmmm, maybe this caught One Evertrust by total surprise. Maybe word hadn't trickled back to Grounds HQ yet. Wait, what? Oh no. So the executives wouldn't have to slip and slide on their short walk to their vehicles they had a truck out salting the bejeesus out of the interior lot, leaving the residents of Jersey City to fend for themselves outside the fence. Just because you put up a fence does not absolve anyone of deicing their walks, shoveling their snow or making sure the sidewalk on their property is passable. If that were true America would be overrun by fence factories.



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