If you know a little Spanish, you may find this one funny.
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Thatâs so ridiculous that it seems staged.
Also, whoâs responsible for shoveling those steps?
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Maybe, though there are 12 possible blocks between the cul-de-sac and any many roads (a minimum of 2 blocks and a maximum of 6 to get to main roads) and none of these 12 have even one âsnow emergency routeâ sign. I suppose that however the plow got to the cul-de-sac to plow it, those streets would be plowed and the emergency responder could leave that way.
Already the cul-de-sac and all this neighborhood streets have parking on only one side all year round. With parking on one side, almost all including the cul-de-sac are such that cars could drive through both directions despite a car parked on one side. With any significant snow drivers are more careful and usually yield to a car from the other direction rather than take any chance, but thereâs always plenty of room for one direction even if no plowing has been done.
So that the owner cannot sue the municipality for damage to the car due to either the snow plowâs direct activities (actually hitting the car) or indirect activities (plow âthrew rocks or other solid projectilesâ on the car).
Hilariously, the next day, they had those steps safety-taped off.
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If so, thatâs absolutely silly. In our neighborhood (roughly a 2 street by 4 street grid, plus the cul-de-sac at one end; with 3 of the 4 streets and 1 of the 2 streets connecting to larger roads (both of which are state highways, but there could potentially be larger roads than the neighborhood roads which are not state highways). The entire area gets gets plowed, potentially cars on any of the streets could be damaged by snow-clearing activities. But residents of the cul-de-sac have different risk from snow-plowing?
Actually, conceivably they do have slightly different risk. The snow plow must turn around at the end (off to the right in the picture). Maybe that creates plowing challenges more than driving a plow along a street in a straight line. Whether that would be any reason to declare a dead-end section a âSnow Emergency Routeâ. :crazy: The sections which are labeled look like just normal road to me. (End of cul-de-sac is wider, sort of a like a circle (or disc) all paved, no area in the enter where you couldnât drive. Diameter of circle somewhere between 1.5 and 2 times the street width leading into it.)
You might note that Iâm answering a specific part of the question as quoted from twigâs post (why street parking should be disallowed).
I grew up in the mountains of Colorado and lived on a cul-de-sacâin the circle part. And it is very different for a plow to âclearâ that part of the street off. Itâs not at all the same as a through street as the plow does have to back-up a couple of time to clear the area. And that is with zero cars parked in the sac-part of the cul-de-sac. A couple of parked cars in the sac is very likely to require the plow to back up the entire length of the street to get outâunless the driver takes a chance that he or she will hit one of the parked cars or uses one of the driveways to effect the turn-around.
Despite liking this post I need to point out that I am in no way interested in mating with Snikelfritz.
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@Echo: OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, meatbird!!! 
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I canât argue with that!
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