A Milwaukee alderman on Wednesday likened the snow-covered streets in his district to an “amusement ride” weeks after a winter storm, pressing Department of Public Works officials on when the streets would be cleared.
“My issue is here we are two weeks later, and I’ve got 10 inches of slush on probably 90% of the roads throughout my district,” Ald. Lamont Westmoreland said at a meeting of the council’s Public Works Committee.
His issue, he said, was not with the snowplow drivers but rather with the planning.
To illustrate the problem, he displayed a photo he said showed a road where the section in Wauwatosa was clear and the stretch in his district remained covered in snow.
Constituents have said their mail is not being dropped off because the mail trucks can’t reach their curbside mailboxes, he said.
One neighborhood reported that more than a foot fell, he said.
Westmoreland represents District 5 on the city’s far west and northwest sides.
It was a snowfall that had “orders of magnitude different impact” between the city’s east and west sides, said Ald. Robert Bauman, who said his downtown district had been in “pretty decent shape” even as other areas were not.