Nutter Praises City Snow Response
Mayor Nutter this morning praised the city's response to the massive overnight storm, which has clogged streets, closed schools and shut down most of the city's buses.
Nutter Praises City Snow Response
Catherine Lucey
Mayor Nutter this morning praised the city's response to the massive overnight storm, which has clogged streets, closed schools and shut down most of the city's buses.
"You have to marvel at the work that was done overnight," Nutter said at a morning news conference, noting that the city was slammed with more than a foot of snow -- twice what was expected. "It's a lot of snow, it came down furiously."
A city snow emergency remains in effect today as workers try to dig out. Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson said about 500 trucks and 700 personnel were currently out fighting the storm. She said about 20 percent of the citys secondary streets and side streets were plowed and efforts were underway to get to all the streets.
SEPTA Spokewoman Jerri Williams said that about ten percent of the city's 120 bus routes were currently running, but that trains, subways and trolleys were still operational, except for the 15 trolley.
Nutter urged people to take trains and use caution walking or driving. He also reminded residents that they must shovel their sidewalks and said inspectors will be out giving $50 tickets this afternoon to those who haven't shoveled a path.
"We will be out and we will be fairly aggressive about it," Nutter said.
Great job today by the city. I'm sorry but the snow is going to stick to the streets as there was a good 1" off ice underneath all that snow and the preceding air temp was quite low. They don't need to plow down to the road surface, just enough so cars can get by. Plus if they lowered the plow it damages the road. Philly's roads are so lumpy it would cause a ton of damage to the roads. Y'all need to drive a plow at some point in your life to understand the science of it. They are a tad light on the salt, but that's a huge budget sucker, I'd rathat have roads with a little coating of snow on it, and save millions of dollars, than to bust our snow budget by +$10Million again.— agonzalez1
The response in Roxborough was not as good as it was last year. I think the city was caught off guard when the rain never came. It just kept on snowing. The city gets a C on this one. No biggie.— The Monk- I know the great guys in Havertown waited until 12 today to start plowing. Good work CHAMPS.— wolfburn
- well they got the parkway! that was the only plowed street i saw this morning— rational thought
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2:30PM here and 21st & Market is still an unplowed unsalted sheet of ice- Somebody should tell this idiot that the morning rush hour was horrendous. I guess he didn't come out until it was over. Broad street was a mess, barely plowed, chunks of ice and pot holes. THIS MAN IS NOT FIT TO BE MAYOR OF MC'DONALD LAND!!!!— mark carr
- The mayor praises his efforts? I guess he has to because none of us would praise him. We finally got one plow through the street, no salt, so there is still a level of snow, and lots of ice. This administration is incompetent in all ways, but arrogant enough to give itself kudos for a job poorly done at best - the past two administrations did better than this clown.— btruth
- The mayor praises his efforts? I guess he has to because none of us would praise him. We finally got one plow through the street, no salt, so there is still a level of snow, and lots of ice. This administration is incompetent in all ways, but arrogant enough to give itself kudos for a job poorly done at best - the past two administrations did better than this clown.— btruth
- WTF. As of 11:00 a.m. Market Street between 16th and 22nd was not plowed.— CD75
- Overall, it was a pretty decent job they did. Just one question.....Why can they never clear two full lanes on a 2 lane highway??? It is ALWAYS 1-1/2 lanes after the plowing is done.— keapitreal
- The city streets really were not plowed well enough at all. I work for a philadelphia hospital and the street that our main entrance and ER entrance are, was barely plowed. You would think that hospital entrances would be crystal clear...at least they should be.— summertime6248
- Nutty Nutter is just that. Where did he see plows or salt? All of Center City was a sheet of ice atleast till 2pm today.
Market was a mess, Chestnut was a mess... I was from old city up to 20th and market... i didnt see one ounce of evidence of a salt truck going through the area.— inkd0874 - Comment removed.
- Curious how many city employees were able to make it to work with few or no buses running. The city seems only geared to those who work in center city, and those who don't are dammed.— gb
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