Why I hate Philly

I live on a narrow residential street in Philadelphia. The city has never plowed my road.

Every other place I’ve lived, including NYC, every street gets plowed and salted. Keeping travel moving is a priority for any city to function smoothly. Philadelphia’s lack of basic services like plowing all streets indicates the faulty structure of the decisions maker’s priorities.

I understand that during and after a snow storm, the plows are busy clearing main roads. That obviously takes precedence over side streets. But two days after we’ve gotten almost a foot of snow, the main roads are clear while some residential streets are a sheet of ice caked over snow. I call it perma-ice because it will be there until it melts, be that in weeks or even months.

It’s dangerous to drive on streets like this. And they’re everywhere. Hundreds of them. All accidents waiting to happen.

Would it be too much trouble to at least throw a little salt or sand on the side streets of Philadelphia?

If it’s a budget problem, I have the answer here

A gentle suggestion to the police-

Taking the following steps will increase the city’s revenue:

1. Ticket drivers who go the wrong way down a one way street instead of pulling over and allowing them room to go by.

2. Ticket cars parked within 10 feet of an intersection. Give two tickets to the cars parked on the actual corner of the intersection.

3. Ticket cars parked in the middle of the street. I’m not talking about double-parked cars. I’m talking about the ones that park along the center yellow line in the middle of the road.

Three very simple things. If these laws were enforced for just one day, the city would collect enough money in fines to fund my move out of this place, plus send me on my way in a 67 Corvette and a Manning  jersey. It would be that much of a goldmine.