Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

its a christmas miracle

folks in cardiac arrest who can't be reached by EMS: NOT ENOUGH PREP TIME

http://gawker.com/5720157/can-you-guess-which-street-is-mayor-bloombergs

in review: for my next trick i will suggest that you are being unreasonable and believe the city is destroyed forever

or rather ambulances (and plows) blocked by people who decided to abandon their cars in the middle of the street, but yeah, believe whatever story works for you xp

I GUESS THAT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!

I have to go - but like it or not manhattan sidestreets deserve higher priority than sheepshead bay sidestreets, more people/buses/bikes/cars/delivery vans/etc. are gonna rely on bloomberg's street at any given moment. not true across the board, but in general, yeah, most of manhattan deserves priority.

also really love having "snow emergency" rules that officials don't think make sense, so they don't declare one. Maybe rule changes in July?

or rather ambulances (and plows) blocked by people who decided to abandon their cars in the middle of the street, but yeah, believe whatever story works for you xp

― iatee, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:03 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol iatee r u just trolling at this point

guys MSP had a huge blizzard, everyone knew it was going to be big, but it was bigger than expected. this is supposed to be the first-class american city for snow removal this side of buffalo and those other lake-effect shitholes. but it still was enough to swamp the place. buses and even the plows themselves were getting stuck. the dome broke, as you may have seen. a college kid died in a house fire because fire crews couldn't get their trucks into those streets. both mpls and st paul declared back-to-back snow emergencies -- that's four days straight of restricted, move-your-car-every-eight-hours bullshit, and it still wasn't enough to clear all streets. there are crews chopping out intersections and bus stops even now.

i have my suspicions why it was so bad this time -- without looking at the books, my guess is the public sector is a little bit less lavish than in previous years about equipment. the cities had to borrow freeway-clearing equipment from the state DOT. so yeah, there's somewhat of a political angle in that political angle in that we ought to have more trucks, meaning $$, meaning taxes.

but you know who i blame really? the snow.

nope, unions

NYC is not comparable to MSP, the venom and hatred help melt the snow here.

lol

like, given the budgets they had, and the systems they had, i dunno what rybak (mpls) or coleman (stp) would or could have done differently. get out in a truck themselves? likewise i dunno what bloomberg could have done except not be a dick in a press conference.

there is a vid of a tow truck pulling a skid loader out of a drift and smashing like three cars tho, so maybe it's a problem of not much institutional or staff preparation for events like this -- the upper midwest deals with this shit so the public knows not to get too frustrated and the plow drivers know wtf they're doing.

xps well glad to know you're doing your part then morbs!

that vid is from NYC i mean

goole, we had essentially the same storm 10 months earlier, and the cleanup speed was night & day-different

well ok then, a hugely lowballed forecast and a holiday seem like the culprits?

in MA (specifically Boston/Cambridge/Somerville) they drastically lowball the budget for snow removal every year and hope they get lucky; odds are something similar happened here

Most sentient adults know advance forecasts can't be trusted (also everyone I knew heard 'blizzard' 24 hrs beforehand), and re holidays this is the City That Never Sleeps.

all the people freaking out sunday morning at the stores buying all the milk and bread knew the deal

oh my god i'll never understand that. fuck!! buy the two most perishable goods there are!! we might be stuck!!

loading up on dairy products in a lactose-intolerant society when you think you're going to be shut in for several days just seems like poor planning no matter what angle you approach it from

maybe they were going to freeze it

lol iatee r u just trolling at this point

reached the point where I don't even know when I'm trolling anymore

Finally - Morbs and Giuliani on the same page -

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/former_mayor_snafu_giuliani_blasts_CSLws3DEAOFv8SVEjJAs7L

there are prob two separate arguments - one based on the mindset where the centrality of travel by car in the culture is completely out of whack, and the other taking that as a given and so based on the status quo and bloomsberg's performance in the face of it

btw, rock salt on the subway stairs today 6 hours before the first flake.

as Jimmy Breslin used to say, "beautiful.'

'WEATHER EMERGENCY' FOR TONIGHT.

“We recognize that we did not do the job that New Yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall.

Bloomie shamed onto same page as everyone else.

plows out in force tonight

“We recognize that we did not do the job that New Yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall.

eh its not exactly 'i didnt declare a snow emergency because i was in bermuda'

oh man it's all plowed, so beautiful

best mayor ever?

yeah, what a medal he gets for taking care of 1/3 of the December snowfall.

I am declaring Iatee Looks Like a Choad Day.

happy iatee looks like a choad day, everyone!

and the VV's cover story on more glorious NYC bang for the buck:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-01-12/news/nyc-payroll-computer-system-citytime/#

so psyched to finally have my own day

gonna celebrate by cruisin around shep bay

this truly is a city of dreams

dont rest on yr laurels, keep pushing until morbs gives you a nickname imo

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110120/manhattan/harlem-now-included-plan-legalize-hailing-livery-cabs

so, good for the boroughs vs 'great, more fucking black cabs'?

everyone does this already, but good move regardless

oh man, gypsy cabs and upper manhattan, can't have one w/o the other

sorta seems like it could be a first step in overturning the whole medallion system

I mean at the very least meters + regulation would be a good thing...even though you can already hail one anywhere in the boroughs where there's currently enough of a market, a meter system would presumably increase ridership -> more business -> more coverage?

otoh worst fucking menace on the streets and I don't see anything in this process that would motivate them to drive more sensibly.

i hate hailing black cabs cause i feel like i need to negosh

I take a cab about 1.6 times a year

yeah I only take em to move shit

aw you two are like 2 peas in a pod

<3

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Sustained booing for @mikebloomberg at labor-heavy crowd marking Triangle Shirtwaist fire anniv, @gracerauh says.
9 minutes ago

Unfortunately, Bloomberg was blissfully unaware that the tribute was being paid to the workers [[haw haw haw]]

he wants to reopen Triangle Shirtwaist since he suspects a cigarette started the fire

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg intends to eliminate 4,100 teaching jobs through layoffs, city officials said on Friday.

"For your own safety stay in rooms with no or few windows."

DICK!