Let’s talk about snow!

Since last week, Boston has had 19-inches of snow with two storms combined. Now we have huge piles of snow banks to deal with. During the first snow, Governor Patrick declared a snow emergency that allowed for some sort of clean up effort. With the Sunday Nor’easter, three days after the first storm, the Governor did not deem necessary to do the same. As a result, parked cars were plowed in on some streets.

Consequently, we now have to deal with extremely narrow streets. On top of this inconvenience, there are a lot of sidewalks that haven’t been cleared properly to accommodate pedestrians, especially women with young children and baby strollers. Those sidewalks have been shoveled just wide enough to allow one person to walk in a straight line. And then there is the problem of icy walkways. Thus, some of us are forced to walk on the road which causes a safety hazard.

In local forecasts, temperatures are will not warm enough to make any significant change. Since we cannot rely on Mother Nature to help us melt all this snow anytime soon, I firmly believe that the city of Boston should put in place some effort to remedy the situation like progressively trucking out some of this snow and plowing more of the leftover snow on the roadways and bus stops.

- Helene