Comments on: What snow? http://valdodge.com/2008/02/03/what-snow/ Random wanderings and wonderings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:23:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: natalie http://valdodge.com/2008/02/03/what-snow/comment-page-1/#comment-890 natalie Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:46:23 +0000 http://valdodge.com/2008/02/03/what-snow/#comment-890 Growing up in Buffalo, I took for granted the caravans of bright yellow plows and salter trucks that would sail up and down all streets and thruways, and the dump trucks that would pick up excess snow and throw it into the lake so that people could parallel park again. Even when it was five feet in 48 hours, you'd be able to get some milk if you could find the end of your driveway. No one in Buffalo has snow tires, because the city has the resources to continuously move snow. In Toronto, it seems they don't even plow residential streets at all, and I just don't get it. Is it a lack of funding? What if there was a fire? Or if someone needed an ambulance? I had to jump out of the way on Saturday as an out-of-control Wheel Trans bus came flying up onto the sidewalk at me and my daughter because the road hadn't been touched. Yeah I decided not to take my car out until things were normal again, but seeing all sorts of people struggling to get out, some of them lone moms with small kids, it made me sort of angry I guess. Growing up in Buffalo, I took for granted the caravans of bright yellow plows and salter trucks that would sail up and down all streets and thruways, and the dump trucks that would pick up excess snow and throw it into the lake so that people could parallel park again. Even when it was five feet in 48 hours, you’d be able to get some milk if you could find the end of your driveway. No one in Buffalo has snow tires, because the city has the resources to continuously move snow.

In Toronto, it seems they don’t even plow residential streets at all, and I just don’t get it. Is it a lack of funding? What if there was a fire? Or if someone needed an ambulance? I had to jump out of the way on Saturday as an out-of-control Wheel Trans bus came flying up onto the sidewalk at me and my daughter because the road hadn’t been touched.

Yeah I decided not to take my car out until things were normal again, but seeing all sorts of people struggling to get out, some of them lone moms with small kids, it made me sort of angry I guess.

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