TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY PUSH BACK AGAINST SNOW FINE THREATS AND PUBLIC WORKS!!!
Again, it's worth reminding people that Kansas City is making threats against biz and homeowners and more than a few residents think that's hypocritical.
To wit . . .
CHECK THIS EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT FROM A KANSAS CITY INSIDER REGARDING CITY HALL SNOW REMOVAL HYPOCRISY!!!
There's even a great photo to illustrate the disparity between what City Hall can deliver and what they expect of residents.
Check it:
"City Hall has put out the threat----property owners clear your sidewalks by Monday or be subject to up to a $100 fine !!
The city owns the streets but look at this photo of a entire lane being blocked on Brookside Blvd as you reach 63rd Street. There are two lanes of traffic for several blocks and then drivers suddenly have to stop and merge to the left.
That iceberg will be there for months before it melts and drivers can reclaim the street for traffic flow.
This is the scene all over town.
Will the City fine the Public Works Department $100 for each of these road obstructions around the City??"
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And while I don't expect many tickets to be written, it's clear that this recent snow State Of Emergency hasn't worked out well for Mayor Sly or City and seems to be further eroding trust in local government.
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Sly didn't shovel this year. He wanted all the rewards and none of the responsibility.
That's what I'm talking about!
Tony might just be getting out of having to shovel his sidewalk but he has a point here.
if the city can't do the job right then why are they leveling fines at the rest of us?
It's really just another bit of taxation without representation.
The Fuckers down at Crestwood Shops are not much better. Fine them.
The Municipal Court will get the money out of you.
Those judges don't take no shit, let me tell you.
Let's see Sly use a shovel. He should recind this ordinance. What a shameful city we have become when the lawmakers can't even follow their own rules.
Let's see Sly use a shovel. He should recind this ordinance. What a shameful city we have become when the lawmakers can't even follow their own rules.
Sly sold us ot
Boing!!!! What a crafty way to get a little more of your hard earned money. Anybody seen that 15K?
My neighborhood had to hire snow removal on my city streets. No one in my neighborhood is using the sidewalks anyway because they are smart and keep their ass inside and they are not a bunch of welfare cases walking to the atm to get their first of the month money. If I get a fine I'm going go in, take a monster dump, and wipe my ass with the ticket. Then I will take my ticket with the nice brown thankyou on it and mail it in.
That mound is from Rosehill, the private contractor in charge of clearing the parking lots for the Brookside shops. I suppose the city will clear it for them for free.
Tony, you are ignorant.
Clean your fucking sidewalks, lazy whiners.
Folks waking up this morning and realizing that life just isn't fair.
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Just shovel your walk, you fucking bums. Jesus, what a bunch of lazy, entitled, crybabies.
Agreed, if you won't to own a business, it comes with responsibilities. That includes shoveling your lot and sidewalks to make them safe. If you don't take care of your responsibilities, there are consequences. Hope they fine all of the jokers going out without 4WD on the first storm and clogging the roads, too.
Heavens to Betsy! Brooksiders actually have to merge left to avoid a pile of snow! Life must be so hard in Brookside. I wonder why anybody lives there.
By the way, Tony, did you notice in your picture that the SIDEWALKS ARE CLEAR? So what exactly is your point? That there is a big mound of piled up snow somewhere in Brookside, so nobody should have to shovel the sidewalk?
And since the alternative to piles of snow is NOT PLOWING AT ALL, what do you suggest?
Shovel your damn sidewalks. Both the city and MODOT have done a great job this year given how much snow we received. Are they supposed to wave a magic wand and make those piles disappear? They are going around with dump trucks and bulldozers hauling it off but there are hundreds of miles to cover. Meanwhile people are having to walk in the street and risk getting hit due to lazy whiny people who can't be bothered to take 20 minutes to do something they know full well they should do.
"That iceberg will be there for months before it melts and drivers can reclaim the street for traffic flow."
Months? That would be at least until May 3.
Grow both up and a pair.
You know why I shoveled my walk and driveway as soon as I could?
Because my family and I use our sidewalk far more than anybody else and I wanted to get MY car out of the driveway.
Good grief, we got people who don't even give a damn about their own families complaining about having to do about a hour of work.
The city doesn't clear their own sidewalks. Look at Loose Park, the north side of the Plaza tennis courts, Mill Creek park. It's just another money grab.
That is a Brookside CID mess not the city's. That is why they collect that extra sales tax.
8:28 is a pansie.
It seems real clear that the citizens of Kansas City just love taking orders from the city or they wouldn't be putting up with this bullshit. The way it is going you will soon be plowing the street in front of your house too. ...at least you'll save money that way.
Why doesn't the city use the boyz in the orange jumpsuits in local lockup like Jamal and Tyrone to clear the snow?
Why do you want somebody else to shovel the snow on your own property?
And how many cops should we pull out of service to supervise the "boyz in the orange jumpsuits" while they are shoveling YOUR sidewalk?
That's some "insider" you got there, Tony.
First of all, he doesn't know about the Brookside CID.
Then he thinks drivers can't see that huge pile of snow in enough time to avoid coming to a sudden and complete stop to avoid it.
How come on residential streeets it isn't both sides of the streets responsibility to clean off the sidewalks?
I mean fair is fair if the walk is there for everyone on the street then everyone should help clean them.
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Let me guess, 10:45. You live on a block with sidewalks only on YOUR side of the street and your neighbors won't shovel it off for you.
Boo hoo.
As of this morning, there is a five foot deep pile of snow on the sidewalk in front of my house. It was put there BY THE CITY. When the city plows my street and cul-de-sac they just push it into the areas between driveways. I've no complaint about the job they did plowing in my neighborhood but I'll be damned if I go out and shovel a five foot deep ice pile the city created.
So the city not only plowed your cul-de-sac, but did it in a way that would not block your driveway, and you are still bitching?
Sir, I'll also guess that the sidewalks in cul-de-sacs rank pretty low on the city's enforcement list.
If you get a ticket, it will be because one of your neighbor's complained about your lazy ass.
So the city not only plowed your cul-de-sac, but did it in a way that would not block your driveway, and you are still bitching?
Sir, I'll also guess that the sidewalks in cul-de-sacs rank pretty low on the city's enforcement list.
If you get a ticket, it will be because one of your neighbor's complained about your lazy ass.
So the city not only plowed your cul-de-sac, but did it in a way that would not block your driveway, and you are still bitching?
Sir, I'll also guess that the sidewalks in cul-de-sacs rank pretty low on the city's enforcement list.
If you get a ticket, it will be because one of your neighbor's complained about your lazy ass.
I'm sure the stretch of sidewalk on Main next to the Liberty Memorial will be the first citation issued. Since it is covered in snow and managed by the City, there will surely not be hypocracy by letting that area remained snow covered while citing residents.
Tony, it's nice to see that the fat fucks from the city still read and respond to your blog. Keep up the good work. And for those living off my tax dollars, get to work!
Clean your sidewalk.
11:49, if only they worked half as hard shoveling their sidewalks as they have thinking up excuses not to, bitching at the city, then shoveling all that nonsense here.
11:03
Oh I cleaned it off but your lazy non-helping ass can't use it since it is on my side of the street.
So walk in the street asshole!
Believe me, I have no cause to be in a shitty neighborhood that only has sidewalks on one side of the street.
But you go ahead and sit on your porch with your shotgun, making sure none of your neighbors use YOUR sidewalk.
What about the sidewalks on Truman and Truman and Prospect. What about the sidewalk on the north side of the street in 200 block of west 39th street.What about the sidewalk at 41st souith of the old Katz drugstore the church ownes it and uses it as a parking lot but haven't done the sidewalk. If everyone would send in their list of non cleaned sidewalks the city will not be able to check any more than the one that the public all agree are bad.
And I do believe that is why the city has asked residents to call the Action Center.
When they get X number of complaints, then they will prioritize and look into it, rather than sending hundreds of employees they don't have to make sure Granny has shoveled her sidewalk.
It would help if some enterprising blogger would make a couple of calls to see exactly how the city intends to identify and ticket uncleared sidewalks, but I suppose that would be more difficult than linking to other media and bitching.
I see the bullies from the 29th Floor are working the blogs today.
Maybe they should pick up a shovel and help a granny out instead of shouting down legitimate complaints.
Maybe granny needs to move into a 55+ maintenance provided community and deal with it. Or have her lazy kids take a break from whining on blogs and get a shovel for her.
Sorry, but I don't work for the city, and I have yet to hear a legitimate complaint.
In fact, all I've heard is whining that began when Tony put up a picture of a mound of snow the city didn't even put there (the Brookside CID contractor did).
Remember, this is all about people crying because the city is telling them to shovel the sidewalk in front of their homes.
A week after it stopped snowing.
Oh, the tyranny! Oh, the humanity!
First 1:27, I'm sure there are a lot of elderly and handicapped people who aren't able to shovel, and I really doubt the city is going to make examples out of them.
I hope that someone is looking out for them. That's what neighbors do.
I also wonder what happened to all those complaints from Brookside/Waldo about weeks and weeks worth of trash piling up?
How ever did they survive that crisis?
Stonewall, strong-arm and strawman- the Bureaucrats responses to legitimate resident complaints.
Katie Horner says: I hope someone gets those sidewalks cleared before people turn to cannibalism because they can’t get out and get to the store. Anyone notice that the homicide rate went down with the crappy weather?
The public works department and the city do not OWN the streets. They are owned by the PUBLIC. The city MAINTAINS them.
I live in a neighborhood off Barry Rd, near 169 Hwy. I live on a corner lot, so I have twice as much sidewalk as most people (my choice).
After the first snowfall I shoveled my sidewalks and several of my neighbors' sidewalks. Then the plows eventually came by and buried them deeper than the original snowfall. Then I shoveled them a second time.
After the second snowfall I shoveled my own sidewalks and several of my neighbors' sidewalks for the third time. And again, the plows eventually came by and buried them deeper than the snowfall. So I went out and re-shoveled my neighbors' and part of my own sidewalks for the forth time, but had to stop due to fatigue. Then I came down sick for several days. Now I'm told if someone calls 3-1-1 I'll probably get stuck with a sizeable fine.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the plow trucks eventually made it through my neighborhood, but I don't understand 2 things:
1. Why do they have to shove the piles clear up onto the sidewalks rather than the area between the curbs and sidewalks?
2. Why am I going to be fined after I shoveled the sidewalks 3-4 times and they're now snow-covered due to the plows?
Kansas City - A city that works for the elite and screws the regular guy.
Drovr along 63rd steer yesterday. Nothing east of troost was shoveled except the bus stops. I bet a lot is the people complaining are the same ones that depend on those sidewalks.
Alonzo Sly Kingfish Tyrone Jamal James says:
2:41 You live off Barry Road north of the river; therefore, you are white and thus you are part of the elite.
Yeah, that Paula Bradfield is a lazy, whining complainer. I bet she doesn't even really have MS.
She either needs to get off her lazy ass and shovel the snow, pay the contractor to move it, or just move to an assisted living home someplace for ripples like her. But quit the whining, complaining and bellyaching about City snow removal policies. It's the LAW!
Fucking whiner.
2:41 has it pegged. The only thing is where I live, there isn't even that grass strip between the curb and the sidewalk. The sidewalk goes right up to the curb, then there is the street.
And the houses are built to the zero lot line. That means there isn't a front yard- just sidewalk.
Plus in their eminent wisdom, the City changed the zoning ordinance a couple years ago so that properties eligible for historic designation do not have to meet the requirement for off street parking spaces. That means EVERYONE parks on the street.
All I can say is that it's fucking shameful what this City does to its residents.
3:03 go read the article ya fucking loser
3:10, why would you buy a house like that?
Back to straw man, ad homonym attacks, eh 4:09? Transparent idiot.
"Plus in their eminent wisdom, the City changed the zoning ordinance a couple years ago so that properties eligible for historic designation do not have to meet the requirement for off street parking spaces."
You mean these places had off-street parking but they don't now that the city has passed an ordinance?
My guess is that the city passed some sort of ordinance requiring off-street parking for new construction, but grandfathered in existing buildings.
1:31: PLEASE don't lump Waldo in with Brookside regarding complaining. The garbage fetishist is from Brookside and is now probably whining about having to shovel his sidewalk. For further proof there's a difference between Brookside and Waldo, take a look at how many speed bumps there are in each neighborhood.
Close, but no cigar. A "homonym" is a word that sounds like another word. The term you are struggling with is "ad hominem."
So be careful the next time you call someone else an idiot.
lazy fucking niggers, get off your fat lazy nigger ass and get to work.
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