The snow and ice were still making it difficult for Bronx residents to get around the borough on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Some MTA riders in Westchester Square told News 12 that their bus stops were not cleaned out, as giant mounds of snow and ice sat on the curb.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t be jumping over that, can\u2019t risk breaking something,\u201d said Angel Acevedo, an 80-year-old bus rider.<\/p>\n
A News 12 crew found several bus stops still covered near East Tremont and Lane avenues.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the stops that I’ve been to have been the same,\u201d said Acevedo. \u201cThey\u2019re all clogged; nobody cleaned them out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rolando Pena, another rider, agreed that the snow should have been removed, but he gave the city some grace.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a big storm, though, and it\u2019s only the third day after the storm,\u201d said Pena.<\/p>\n
Julia Kerson, deputy mayor for operations, said this week that the Department of Transportation [DOT] is tasked with clearing bus stops.<\/p>\n
A DOT spokesperson told News 12 that property owners are responsible for clearing snow from sidewalks, including those with bus stops, which are 11,000 bus stops.<\/p>\n
The DOT spokesperson added that contractor JCDecaux is tasked with cleaning the city\u2019s 3,400 bus shelters, and as of Wednesday morning, 95% of those bus shelters were complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have seen [the bus stops] worse,\u201d said Pena. \u201cAnyway, we\u2019re doing the best we can. We help each other here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not right,\u201d said Acevedo.<\/p>\n
The DOT encourages New Yorkers to report blocked bus stops to 311. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The snow and ice were still making it difficult for Bronx residents to get around the borough on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,44541,9,24,63,35907,47419,30712,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-115685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-bus-stop","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-safety-concerns","14":"tag-shoveling-safety","15":"tag-snowfall","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}