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Tax Dollars At Work

It’s annoying enough to be stuck behind someone one driving slow because they are to busy on the phone to drive the speed limit, but it is even more annoying to be stuck behind someone on the cell phone, who is paid by your tax dollars in a vehicle paid for by your tax dollars.

This is not an isolated incident, it seems every time I see a city vehicle, the driver has their cell phone plastered to their ear.

I think the city should be setting an example in safety an ban cell phone use be people driving city vehicles.

Talking on the phone

City employee driving on the cell phone

BTW this photo was take while stopped at a red light…

 

 

More Snowplow Observations

Over the weekend, Saturday, I got around and took care of some things, and I noticed as I passed the 4th or 5th school I passed, that despite being closed for the christmas break (well mostly closed, a couple admin people working) was that the parking lots were plowed. Is there any reason that the school parking lots needed to be plowed when the schools were closed, and the icy roads leading to and from the schools weren’t, sounds real counter productive to me. School budgets are shrinking, yet they have the money to plow parking lots…

Later that evening, while riding bikes to the local bar, we took the usual short cut through the local rec center parking lot, and what did I see while going through the parking lot… Yep you guessed it, the parking lot at the rec center was also plowed, meanwhile earlier in the day I was drivingndown fully covered in snow streets, a week after the snow fell…

Snow covered road

Everyday I wonder more and more where this towns priorities are, it doesn’t appear to me that the tax g citizens are very high on that prior it list..

Panhandling On Dam Neck

I thought the city passed a law making this illegal…

Seem this couple, the guy is a mile down the road at another intersection, have been busy working the Lynnhaven and Great Neck areas for the past couple weeks. My guess is that moving around a lot, is a better tactic then the last person I saw working the Dam Neck Intersections, took him two weeks to get enough money for a bus ticket back to Jersey…

Panhandle

Snow Clue

I find it very interesting, that with pending cuts in the coming months, that the city of Virginia Beach can’t find a better way to deploy manpower after the big snow storm, then to have close to a dozen workers cleaning the sidewalks of the municipal center on Sunday… I am guessing that these guys were most likely collecting overtime… I guess it’s somehow important, that the municipal center looks good no matter what the cost, while all the rest of the city looks like crap…

City Workers Cleaning sidewalks at municipal center

Meanwhile I have seen a grand total of 8 city snowplows on the roads, driving through the snow covered roads with their blades up… You would think that if the truck is moving, and there is snow on the road, the blade should be down clearing the roads… It is now 3 days since the storm hit, and the majority of main roads look like ass, and even worse at the intersections… You would think that a city truck with snowplow moving down snow covered primary road, that the blade would be down and snow would be getting cleared…

Snowy Intersection at P.A. and North Landing

Snowy intersection at Princess Anne and Holland

Guys make better use of your limited resources…

Snow on Princess Anne

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Trying to get BlogPress to work on my iPhone, but it seems to only want to do scheduled posts in the past that will never be posted without intervention…
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