To the editor:
On Jan. 17, shortly after 1 a.m., I shockingly watched a marked City Roads sanding truck slowly drive by working the street I live on and uselessly and foolishly sanding/salting the heavily snowed and unplowed street.
Then shortly after 8 a.m. and only a very short seven hours later and with no traffic since sanding, I now watched the city grader only now finally plow and clean the heavily snowed street removing all traces of the night shift's costly, useless and foolish sanding and salting from just a few short hours earlier.
Should this operation of winter city road work not be done the other way around, first plow and then sand?
The horse always goes in front of the cart and not behind as so often demonstrated in this city's Gong Show amateur actions.
Where exactly is the common sense and logic of this city's roads department manager and obviously lack of diligent planning to winter roads work.
What other diligent business or conscientious household would pull off such a shameful "boneheaded" and costly stunt to this city's residents and taxpayers.
This city and current council continually and disgustingly, unnecessarily spend and waste hard earned taxpayers’ dollars at an alarming rate, much like drunken sailors on a much long overdue shore leave.
Roads management's snow removal for this year has earned a colossal failure in their very poor work and timing in keeping our city's streets clear of snow and ice. (no blame to operators)
Also, I once again observed what appeared to be many huge rocks just sitting on top of the city sanding truck’s box grizzly bars, just waiting to fall off and go through some unsuspecting motorist’s windshield or worse, seriously injuring or killing a pedestrian or child and again bringing another embarrassing claim against the city (100 per cent operator negligence).
Thunder Bay residents and taxpayers certainly deserve a whole lot better for our hard earned dollars.
M. Locke
Thunder Bay
