Here we are three days after a major snow fall and the roads to be maintained by the RCOC are still an icy snowy mess.
Press releases and emails from Craig Bryson of the RCOC state that they are working hard and the salt isn't being used because it won't work at the low tempertures.
Baloney I say! Why is it that Brewster and Livernois are completely clean? The roads maintained by the city of Rochester Hills are clean. They obviously plowed and salted.
We went down to the DIA in Detroit for a function last night. The longest part of the trip was trying to get out of Rochester Hills. Walton was a mess.
Surprisingly, the Detroit roads were well maintained. I figure, with their budget problems, if they can clear their roads, Oakland County sure can, but they haven't.
Where were they on Sunday? I only saw one plow on our entire return trip from Indiana once we entered Michigan. It was crossing Lapeer at Dutton and it had its blade up.
If they had gotten out on Sunday and plowed and dropped salt while the temperatures were still hovering around 30 degrees, we wouldn't have this mess.
Perhaps the RCOC is playing games. Maybe they purposely are leaving the roads a mess in a effort to get more funding or taxes from us.
Those who have been around can recall what happened to former mayor Pat Sommerviille when she didn't allow for plowing before Christmas Eve a number of years back. She lost the confidence of voters and every person running for council that she supported lost.
The residents need to call for a stop to this nonsense. They are putting our lives in danger.
The investment in some Sunday "overtime" would have saved much much more than this now 3-day-old debacle.
ReplyDeleteSome salt or brine Sunday before the slush froze hard to the road surfaces would have allowed for the removal of the snow by sundown. Then Monday all we would have had was cold squeaky fluff.
Some places the ice was 3" thick on M-59.