To the Editor:
On Tuesday, the ever-shrinking lanes on the city's major roadways and left turn lanes on the city's major roadways had not yet been cleared. Residential streets were still being plowed/cleared on Wednesday morning.
Is it really that hard to find plow contractors, coordinating with the police or sheriff's office to do a lane closure from 10 p.m. until needed to clear those left turn lanes? Someone needs to dig up the Vola Lawson plan for snow removal that was done some time before she left public service.
Having ventured out to get an emissions test, a run to the grocery store, and to drop off some greens at the animal shelter, I have been surprised to see that little has seemingly been done since Monday on the primary and secondary roads.
I ventured out into western Montgomery County on Saturday to do a volunteer produce run to two animal sanctuaries and to just get out of town. I must say, having driven down River Road from the beltway to its end to the first animal sanctuary, on into Poolesville, then to Boyd's to the smaller sanctuary, finally to Germantown before heading home via I-270, the roads were in awesome shape. No shrinking lanes, no uncleared snow in left turn lanes, even the residential streets that I saw were better cleared. There was even a crew out at 3 p.m. in Germantown on the 118 clearing a fallen snow embankment. In all it was even more remarkable since they had three feet of snow where I had ventured out to. Shame on Alexandria, we must have had amateurs clearing our roads.
Ruben "Bill" Duran
Alexandria