- Mar 13, 2004
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This +##$ was TERRIBLE. Sidestreets were a disaster and nothing was touched for about 3-4 days following the storm in parts of Queens. As a matter of fact, one of my boys went up to a plow driver (who was just chillin on Main St.) and asked if he could take care of some of the roads in the surrounding neighborhoods and the dude laughed in his face and said "no." I was reading a comment under this article and a dude who is in the union said that this is nothing new. They don't do much removal so that they can get the OT hours on the weekends etc....
This +##$ was TERRIBLE. Sidestreets were a disaster and nothing was touched for about 3-4 days following the storm in parts of Queens. As a matter of fact, one of my boys went up to a plow driver (who was just chillin on Main St.) and asked if he could take care of some of the roads in the surrounding neighborhoods and the dude laughed in his face and said "no." I was reading a comment under this article and a dude who is in the union said that this is nothing new. They don't do much removal so that they can get the OT hours on the weekends etc....
Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that city sanitation workers conspired to slow down clean-up efforts after the snow storm.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn will not confirm or deny an investigation, but sources tell WNYC that prosecutors have been looking into whether sanitation workers deliberately delayed snow removal efforts and then collected on hours of overtime.
This is the latest report of a probe against sanitation workers since the city's paralyzing Dec. 26 blizzard. The New York City Department of Investigation started its own inquiry last week after Queens City Councilman Dan Halloran said sanitation workers told him their supervisors said to slow down snow plowing efforts.
Halloran's office collected stories about workers driving over streets with their snow plows raised in the air and never making contact with the road. Workers also allegedly rolled back and forth over streets that were already plowed.
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-n...n-probe-sluggish-blizzard-clean-city-workers/
rest of article in link...
When you got Bloomberg boasting that the city had deployed over 17,000 trucks, you'd think that the efforts would be better....
