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Another snow job in NY
Two Sanitation chiefs in South Brooklyn are being reassigned: Assistant Chief Joseph Montgomery, who supervised 12 sanitation districts where the snow removal efforts were particularly troublesome and Deputy Chief Joseph Susol, who was on night duty during the storm.Any bets on what happens to their compensation or bennies after killing a baby and an old lady? In addition the department vowed to improve training for Sanitation workers. Training manuals will be updated to reflect changes in technology and equipment. Why? They already know quite well what they are doing. Bloomberg refused to say what Chief John Peruggia as head of the Emergency Medical Service, might have done wrong during the blizzard, especially since the heavy snow drifts caused most of the delays. My BS detector is going off . . . . "We did not give the public the service that the public has a right to expect when it comes to ambulances and it starts with management," the mayor said. Whoops, my cover-up detector is going off now. The ensuing outcry by stranded New Yorkers invited comparisons to the infamous 1969 blizzard that forever damaged Mayor John Lindsay's reputation. Bloomberg's popularity has also suffered with his own blizzard crisis: a January 5th NY1-Marist Poll measured the mayor's approval rating at 37 percent -- his lowest since taking office. Those must be the folks who live near where they keep the plows. Saying a lack of information hampered snow clearing, the mayor announced that 50 Sanitation trucks assigned to Midwood, Flatbush, Ditmas Park and Kensington will be outfitted with GPS and that roving observation teams armed with video cameras will transmit live feeds back to City Hall during the upcoming storm."We plan to do a great job, the kind of job the public has come to expect us to do," the mayor said. You'll be doing a great job if you put that GPS info online for all to see. He also hinted of more changes afoot before the City Council's public grilling next Monday over how and why the city failed during the blizzard. This ought to be good. It ought to be interesting to see how stupid you think people are. "It's certainly not the last word on the subject," he said. It fuc&in' better not be. Posted by: gorb 2011-01-07 |
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