Throw The Snowfall Inwards The Harbor! (A Reprise.)
Friday, November 9, 2018
This is a scene of the South Boston Seaport "snow farm," where truckloads of snowfall from urban centre streets are unloaded in addition to and thence pushed roughly yesteryear heavy mechanism to brand room for the side yesteryear side loads.
What produce you lot run into correct behind the snowfall piles? Boston Harbor.
Where is that snowfall going to snuff it when it lastly melts? Into Boston Habor.
Several years ago, I suggested that during major snowfall accumulations, the country DEP should grant the City of Boston a waiver to dump the snowfall into the Harbor.
Why does it matter? It matters for no other argue that it takes longer to build clean the streets when you lot cause got to snuff it through this routine of hauling in addition to pushing, hauling in addition to pushing. It won't solve all the problems, but it volition help.
After several large snowfalls, those urban centre streets snuff it unsafe obstructions to emergency traffic in addition to crusade intense traffic jams. That's what's happening correct now. Here are some recent tweets on Twitter from Adam Gaffin at Universal Hub:
Surface route front end of Federal Reserve Building is blocked off yesteryear two law cars. Accidents on xway hateful no where to seat cars
Are at that topographic point whatsoever law offers inwards Kenmore directing traffic? Lights non working.
Don't fifty-fifty bother amongst Memorial Drive.
Evening crawl hr inwards total strength on Atlantic yesteryear Summer: Nobody's going anywhere
Huntington yesteryear MDA a parking lot. Honking horns does nothing, folks, merely FYI. Ambulances cannot larn through, either.
Roads inwards #Southie are thence bad that Uber drivers don't desire to come upwards here, in addition to that's the alone existent transit organization nosotros have.
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