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SCHENECTADY After getting lashed by the public over its response to last week’s winter storm, the city is considering the launching of an alternate side parking pilot program in the city’s Bellevue neighborhood.
Many streets in the neighborhood already contain that designation, city Signals Superintendent John Coluccio told the City Council on Monday, making it a prime spot to roll out the concept.
Yet officials acknowledged the designation is not widely enforced.
Since Bellevue is the furthest away from the city’s Department of Public Works headquarters on Foster Avenue in the city’s Northside, it’s advantageous for city crews to study ways to avoid making treks back-and-forth during heavy snowfalls, Coluccio said.
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Underwood, 92, canceled lunch at a senior meal site.
“I consider this a very dangerous thing because of my past history and my age,” said Underwood, a stroke survivor. “The mail can’t come. Nobody can get in and I can’t get out.”
City Councilwoman Carmel Patrick recounted having similar discussions with city residents over medical concerns, including someone who needed to transport a family member to a dialysis appointment.
Patrick was among the city lawmakers who pushed for answers on Monday.
City leaders blast Schenectady s lackluster snow removal after storm
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1of11Buy PhotoA front loader is seen dumping snow into trucks lined up on a street on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 in Schenectady, N.Y. Snow is still being removed from streets and dumped in a parking lot near Central Park. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of11Buy PhotoDump trucks full of snow are seen on heading down a street on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 in Schenectady, N.Y. Snow is still being removed from streets and dumped in a parking lot near Central Park. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Schenectady continues to dig out from snow storm | The Daily Gazette
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North Street in the Stockade in Schenectady was still unplowed Friday.
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SCHENECTADY The city is continuing to mop up after getting walloped by a severe snowstorm.
“We’re catching up,” said city Mayor Gary McCarthy on Friday afternoon. “Most of the streets are plowed at this point and we’re now getting into snow removal.”
Efforts are underway with a fleet of 24 dump trucks from the state Department of Transportation, as well as five loaders and seven city plows, as well as assistance from private subcontractors.
Yet two days after the snow storm dumped as much as 31 inches in the city, criticism continued to mount from a peeved public over the city’s response that left some streets untouched for virtually all of Thursday.
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PETER R. BARBER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Schenectady Engine 1 is stopped at Craig and Strong street for a medical on Hulett Stree in Schenectady Thursday, December 17, 2020. Roads were impassible so the paramedics had to walk to the scene.
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“We’re playing catchup with this storm,” McCarthy said. “It’s a record storm.”
The mayor acknowledged the sheer volume of snowfall, which dumped as much as three feet of snow in some localities in the Capital Region, resulted in the city being unable to clear some side streets.
“Our side streets are still not able to be in the shape we’d like them to be in,” McCarthy said.