No matter how much you send they want more. More NON ESSENTIAL services like PIO’s, art classes, trips to ride on Air Force One, buying sagebrush on in the foothills, etc.

The only thing I slightly disagree on… a week ago, city employees were actually deployed, to help clear storm drains, etc., in anticipation of more wet stuff. (Mayor Bieter thinks ACHD dropped the ball, by being short-staffed and ill-equipped.) So there actually WAS some totally-appropriate collaboration between the entities. Private citizens joined the effort, too! THAT, my friends, is how you deal with a once-every-30-years weather event! And we’re not out of it yet, most likely.

ACHD installs speed bumps, puts up radar signs, adds other calming devices for us AND BOISE PD and MAYOR still ignore us and those who go 45 in a 20 zone!

Maybe we need to give the police dept to ACHD!!!

It is a well known and oft repeated fact that the Mayor wants control of city streets, so persistent and vocal is he in this regard he has lost all credibility to be an objective critic of ACHD.

The Mayor’s OpEd is full of criticism but lacks specifics on how ACHD has failed us, and he presents no detailed plan on how he would manage the streets better, only broad sounds bites of putting the citizens first…..

While I am no big fan of ACHD, I at least believe they take a scientific approach to the use of the public streets and use data and engineering to plan use of the streets, I have no such confidence in the Mayor, his traffic management plan is really about social outcomes he desires, not how public infrastructure can best be used to serve all citizens.

One good thing about this weather, I haven’t heard a single Harley in weeks. I wish it would snow all year!

Lack of sidewalk snow removal creates problems for any one who walks for transportation or recreation. This includes school kids, people with disabilities, and the elderly. Mayor Bieter should be concerned about all people during events like this and not just those who drive.

If Mayor Bieter can sign an Executive Order to prevent that from happening, I’ll support moving roadbuilding and maintenance back to the City’s purview. (And stopping a measly snowstorm should be peanuts! His man Obama declared that the ocean levels would quit rising, back in ’08 when he got the nomination to be the Democrat presidential pick.)

Hahaha! What a quaint notion! Sidewalks… in use?

(I’m guessing 70% of kids get dropped off by a chauffeur… 15% ride the bus… and 15% walk or ride a bike. The infrastructure is maintained accordingly.)

Easterner: “Oh well, better luck next snow storm.”

The next comprarable snow storm likely won’t hit for 30 years. (The last one was in the 80s.) Or maybe never, if Algore is right.

(People talk about Global Warming like it’s a BAD thing! haha)

How bout this idea, pay attention to where the snow is going.

ACHD came around to clear the schools at 1a.m. to clear access to Boise Schools- neglecting the fact kids (and us parents) can’t even use the sidewalks to get to the school.
Not sure if they did that for other schools in Ada. But there was a loader and 3 dump trucks, with traffic control, collecting some overtime when I drove past one school at 1am the other morning.

oh well, better luck next snow storm.