thank you! that's a relief.Auggie wrote: ↑Jan 06, 2025Streets seem pretty decent. All the major buses should be running on a somewhat normal schedule.
nope, that was a wishful thinking. only a handful of buses operating today and that too only until 8p.Auggie wrote: ↑Jan 06, 2025Streets seem pretty decent. All the major buses should be running on a somewhat normal schedule.
yeah let us snow plough main roads and highways and shove the snow into arterial streets...lolTheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote: ↑Jan 07, 2025Yeah, every side street in the central corridor pretty bad still. Some of the NS arterials like Euclid, Boyle, Taylor are better/passable but by no means "clear". Lots of sedans not stopping at stop signs as they don't want to lose momentum.
FPA is pretty tough in patches, and one lane clear in others. Highway in good shape, but on/off ramps are dicey. The 14th st onramp to 64 WB pretty much has no merge lane, so more of an insertion point, LOL
Have you been downtown? None of the parking lanes are available let alone are the traffic lanes even cleared. How about 64 EB? The lane to the 22nd street exit hasn't been touched. There were 3 cars all stuck on the highway last night.Auggie wrote: ↑Jan 09, 2025The exaggeration and complete misunderstanding about snow from people regarding this particular snowstorm is insane.
The streets are buy and large clear. The main streets (at least in the city) were mostly clear the morning after. Streets aren't getting worse.
Why didn't they plow your random side street? Because that's not how it works. They will knock off mirrors, scratch paint, and ultimately bury your car if they run a plow down your random side street.
I've never been gaslit more in my life than with STL social media and this snowstorm. I literally am driving around with zero issue and then see some moron acting like it's still just as bad as ever....
I've been all around south city and haven't had an issue. Haven't even seen anyone stuck since Tuesday. All the major roads are clear and the major side streets are clear too.Note Speak wrote: ↑Jan 10, 2025Have you been downtown? None of the parking lanes are available let alone are the traffic lanes even cleared. How about 64 EB? The lane to the 22nd street exit hasn't been touched. There were 3 cars all stuck on the highway last night.Auggie wrote: ↑Jan 09, 2025The exaggeration and complete misunderstanding about snow from people regarding this particular snowstorm is insane.
The streets are buy and large clear. The main streets (at least in the city) were mostly clear the morning after. Streets aren't getting worse.
Why didn't they plow your random side street? Because that's not how it works. They will knock off mirrors, scratch paint, and ultimately bury your car if they run a plow down your random side street.
I've never been gaslit more in my life than with STL social media and this snowstorm. I literally am driving around with zero issue and then see some moron acting like it's still just as bad as ever....
If this has any impact on the mayoral election, this city is as brain dead as the state. Clearly no one knows what big snow is like because this isn't that bad, the city and county's response isn't that bad, and yet everyone can't handle it.Baltimore Jack wrote: ↑Jan 10, 2025I posted on the mayoral election thread about the potential of the snowstorm response to affect the results. I strongly believe it could be a major factor.
You posted two pictures of a completely down to pavement clear street. I don't know where you expect the snow to go.... would you rather them push the snow up on the sidewalk so we have more space for cars and less space for humans to walk?stlgasm wrote: ↑Jan 10, 2025This is how Compton Ave. at Cherokee looked at 2:00pm today. If you want to park on Compton or Cherokee, good luck. You'll have to either climb a mountain of snow, or park in middle of the street. Needless to say, we haven't even been able to open our shop this week because it's pretty much impossible to park safely anywhere on the entire block. Compton may not be a "major" thoroughfare, but it's not exactly a little side street either. The fact that not a single snowflake has fallen in four days and the street is still looks like this is a sign that there is room for improvement when it comes to snow removal.. Not a good week for small businesses on Cherokee, I can tell you that. Also, it has caused us to miss important deliveries because the trucks can't load/unload anywhere safely. And with more snow expected overnight, we can assume it will only be worse tomorrow. Snow1.jpgSnow2.jpg
The county says they have a manpower shortage. But the clear misunderstanding with the public is the question of where to put the snow. Zero people understand that "plowing snow" doesn't just make it disappear. Argued with someone the other day who was complaining about how Jaimeson wasn't clear, but also complained about how the plow pushed the snow up on the sidewalk at the corner of Landsdowne and Jaimeson. You can't have both clear streets and low snow banks. But no one seems to understand that.chris fuller wrote: ↑Jan 10, 2025been pretty bad on E/W streets in CWE/Midtown/downtown corridor
Compton Ave. at Cherokee looked at 2:00pm today
Is the "where do we put all the snow" a reason why it is not plowed?
Manpower defect, poor equipment, lack of organization also issues?
Columbia MO used to push the snow into the middle of the street in a huge temporary snow median. I didn't particularly think it was a better alternative, but there are alternatives. (Silverton Colorado did that too, by the way. Though, for every inch of show we get they get feet. Probably more than one.) Anyway . . . yeah, this isn't really that bad. Does it make driving inconvenient? Yep. Makes walking even worse, since people don't know how to shovel a sidewalk anymore. (Or maybe no one has the time because everyone is exhausted trying to drive constantly.) I don't think this is so much an indictment of the mayor, or St. Louis government, as it is of car culture and our dependence on street parking and driving. I cleared my sidewalk twice: once after the ice and the first bit of snow, and then again after the second bit of snow. We could, in theory, all do that and then we'd have nice sidewalks. We could walk and take the bus. Bluebirds could sing and angels might dance on my front porch.Auggie wrote: ↑Jan 10, 2025You posted two pictures of a completely down to pavement clear street. I don't know where you expect the snow to go.... would you rather them push the snow up on the sidewalk so we have more space for cars and less space for humans to walk?stlgasm wrote: ↑Jan 10, 2025This is how Compton Ave. at Cherokee looked at 2:00pm today. If you want to park on Compton or Cherokee, good luck. You'll have to either climb a mountain of snow, or park in middle of the street. Needless to say, we haven't even been able to open our shop this week because it's pretty much impossible to park safely anywhere on the entire block. Compton may not be a "major" thoroughfare, but it's not exactly a little side street either. The fact that not a single snowflake has fallen in four days and the street is still looks like this is a sign that there is room for improvement when it comes to snow removal.. Not a good week for small businesses on Cherokee, I can tell you that. Also, it has caused us to miss important deliveries because the trucks can't load/unload anywhere safely. And with more snow expected overnight, we can assume it will only be worse tomorrow. Snow1.jpgSnow2.jpg
If that’s your sidewalk, I can’t help but notice it hasn’t been shoveled.stlgasm wrote: ↑Jan 10, 2025This is how Compton Ave. at Cherokee looked at 2:00pm today. If you want to park on Compton or Cherokee, good luck. You'll have to either climb a mountain of snow, or park in middle of the street. Needless to say, we haven't even been able to open our shop this week because it's pretty much impossible to park safely anywhere on the entire block. Compton may not be a "major" thoroughfare, but it's not exactly a little side street either. The fact that not a single snowflake has fallen in four days and the street is still looks like this is a sign that there is room for improvement when it comes to snow removal.. Not a good week for small businesses on Cherokee, I can tell you that. Also, it has caused us to miss important deliveries because the trucks can't load/unload anywhere safely. And with more snow expected overnight, we can assume it will only be worse tomorrow. Snow1.jpgSnow2.jpg
