Ironically, they spent many manhours yesterday pushing water from firetrucks onto the ice to build up new layers ... I wonder if that played with the integrity of what was there already.
This is an annual City event. The first City vehicle to plunge through thin ice. Two weeks earlier this year! Like the swallows returning to Capistrano or a new opening date for the Big Hose.
The genius whose truck fell through the ice at Schenectady’s Central Park yesterday might be forgiven if the exact same thing hadn’t happened a year ago. But it did, of course. And in the not-toodistant past, it used to happen regularly enough that in some circles it became known as a rite of winter. So the question city residents have to be asking themselves this morning is, will it ever stop? The answer is, only when someone in a position of supreme authority — how about the mayor? — says, in no uncertain, terms: No more trucks on the ice. Clearly, the time has long since past for the city to employ a different tactic to clear snow from Iroquois Lake. Ice skating and winter carnivals are wholesome, outdoor activities for kids and families, and the city is right to promote them, but it should do so carefully and cost-effectively. Yesterday’s incident not only endangered the life of the driver, but the handful of men engaged in the subsequent rescue operation. It took them, the truck and the front-end loader sent to rescue it away from a more important task — cleaning city streets after the weekend snowstorm. If the relatively new truck that went through the ice isn’t a total loss as a result of damage from water and the salvage operation, it will surely be out of commission for weeks. The cost, even .........http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00704
Instead of attacking the "genius" behind the Van Dyke, Robinson's Square and Big Hose "Opening" they attack some lowly City worker who was merely following orders. Typical Gazetto. The silence on Metrograft, Gillen Gutch, Van Dyke Funding{oh yeah, that was a good thing, the taxpayers could have lost more?}, Closure of Parisi's Steakhouse, Big Hose, and the delayed State Audit is deafening.
Mayor Stratton actually lead? Another new concept.
The Gazetto actually recommends prisoners from the County Jail clean the ice? Great idea-NOT! They can either escape or when they slip and fall they can sue the oppressed County taxpayers. Here's a better idea stop shilling for the Winter Carnival which does nothing but increase taxpayer costs.
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This is an annual City event. The first City vehicle to plunge through thin ice. Two weeks earlier this year! Like the swallows returning to Capistrano or a new opening date for the Big Hose.
