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Raybo's revenge: Former mayor claims streets were perfectly, instantly plowed under his watch
By adamg on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 6:19pm
Ray Flynn, who used to ride snow plows when he wasn't busy confronting pit bulls or running into burning buildings, thinks plowing has just gone all to hell under Menino; claims City Hall never got a single complaint about snow plowing under his watch.
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I read the article. "We
I read the article. "We never received a single complaint to our 24-hour hotline at City Hall."
Never? Never, ever? As in, not even a few crazies who just want to complain because they're crotchety? N E V E R?
I don't believe it. Sounds like rosy retrospection. If he had copped to the odd call from a crotchety person or two, I might have believed it.
Legend in his own mythology
Alas, poor Raymond, eclipsed by the non-theatrical guy who wasn't even on the Celtics. It must be tough to know that people love Tommy.
Speaking of ambulance access
He needs the streets to be plowed in case he needs an ambulance for himself. He's patting himself so hard on the back he might throw a disc.
next mayor?
sounds like he's going to run for mayor when Menino retires
Open City
Ray is confused. He never got any snow complaints when he was in Rome, as US ambassador to the Vatican. Boston was another story.
Yeah he got *other* complaints when in Rome
...as in, he was piss drunk in public way too often, even at official functions. But hey, no snow problems in Rome OR the Vatican while he was there. Great Job Ray!
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An Open Boston City Council
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Whatever
However the plowing in the city for this storm sucked.
A third of the parking spaces on Cambridge St in downtown
are unusable because they are completely full with snow.
A quarter of the spaces on Charles St are unusable. This
despite the roads being clear the entire storm.
I was briefly happy to see some large empty gravel trucks on
Cambridge St last night - thinking the city saw the problem
and was doing something about it. Instead they were there to
haul away the snow from the parking plaza where Whole Foods
is.
I, too, remember those days well!
We walked to school in those very snowstorms. Miles and miles. Uphill. Both ways!
How can we miss him....
Ha ha ha ha
Oh Ray, you make me laugh. Ray is probably right that they never received a complaint on the hotlines, because back then when you called the City to ask them to do something they would hang up on you - sorry, put you on "hold." When (if) they returned to the phone many, many, many hours later they would ask you where you were calling from, which would then result in one of several responses depending on where you lived, ranging from "Dorchester, why do you live there?" to "oh, Southie; are you related to Sean O'Connel, he's my god nephew," to "West Roxbury, why didn't you just call Kevin over at the hall?, he'll plow you out." In all fairness, Ray did alot more for the neighborhoods than his predecessors did, and for the City as a whole for that matter. He was a good mayor, but hardly complaint-free.
It's hard to read when not sober
Of course Ray never read a complaint. Reading is a challenge when seeing double.
Snow Removal
The difference between Ray's administration and the current is snow REMOVAL. Mayor Flynn's Public Works Dept, actually removed the snow, not just push it around from intersection to intersection.