Friday, February 1, 2008

Village plowing and Snowplow

Weird day. Watched the neighbors son back his car out of the driveway just as the snowplow came around the corner. The plow had just come by a minute earlier and plowed more snow across their driveway that they had just shovelled out a minute before. The kid was backing up fast to get through the pile and probably wasn't expecting truck to come by right away again (plus his sister was in car next to him waiting to do same and may have briefly obstructed his view). He saw the truck but it was too late. He braked and started to slide at an angle but banged into the side blade. Nobody hurt. Police said truck was fine but car trunk was pretty banged up and in. Kids fault but wonder how many other near misses happen around here when it snows like that?

One big concern is that the Village voted to not plow the street from 32nd Avenue to Kenosha County bike trail when residents of Prairie Trails West and County were successful in blocking a public road crossing of bike trail. They did not plow that section of street last year. This year they are plowing. Today, the snowplow plowed down to bike trail and backed up all the way from the bike trail to 122nd Street but its back up alarm was not working. Not good since kids were sledding in the area and walking same stretch of road to sledding area. Not sure what's going on as I don't remember Village voting to plow that stretch of road again. This is especially concerning because just a few years ago a snowplow driver backed over and killed a resident in Pleasant Prairie. This is the same justification that Village used to not plow that section of road anymore. Someone has some explaining to do.

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