{"id":64855,"date":"2025-12-08T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64855\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:35:09","slug":"merchant-syracuse-can-do-better-removing-snow-from-downtown-streets-your-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64855\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchant: Syracuse can do better removing snow from downtown streets (Your Letters)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/opinion\/\" title=\"Navigate to Opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion<\/a>Published: Dec. 08, 2025, 11:02 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"A wet heavy snow blanket much of Central New York\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/J2RHIQMHENDOVIN6T26BFUEZSQ.jpg\"  \/>A wet, heavy snow blanketed much of Central New York Tuesday morning, Dec. 2, 2025. (Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com) dennis nett | dnett@syracuse.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V4ZPLHGQ3JFGPJZNMAJJ4PW2XE\">To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FXL76XU3K5AQBFVPNJAYSZD6PY\">Well, the first real snowfall hit us last week and the sidewalks were mostly clear downtown, thanks to the Downtown Committee of Syracuse and the efforts of the buildings and tenants to clear the walks for the pedestrians and customers. A survey of the road conditions in the Downtown Business District reveals another lackluster performance of snow removal along the side streets. The parking lanes were unplowed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"K3QETBKOSBHEFIM543V2BHNY4A\">If last year was any indicator of what we can expect from the city regarding snow removal, we are in for a long, frustrating winter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7VKDA3LHS5GENKHIUZPXEVNKAM\">When I saw new parking rules go up on streets to require alternate side parking, I was encouraged. It is time to enforce the parking rules and to put in the effort to clean up the snowfall properly. We suffered the lack of proper snow removal last year to detriment of all who used downtown. The parking lanes became multi-inch ice blocks when the snow froze. Members of the public parked and exited their vehicles at their own risk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AKCMMLMJNBET7LFHEWPZILI5CU\">Can we expect a better performance this year? I overhear people bragging about the area being the best in the nation at handling the snow. I think it is abuot time to start proving them right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B6OV2NW7KNCZNFX34SQWNIJAFI\">James Horan <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MOQ4NHZGABGPRFJNJ3VXDZ2X5I\">Vagabond Clothing<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SJLM3WLFTZD43OWWAUMVZN7NUQ\">Downtown Syracuse <\/p>\n<p>Syracuse.com\/The Post-Standard welcomes your opinions on topics of local interest. We publish timely letters and commentaries that advance the conversation about issues in the news. Send submissions to&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpinionPublished: Dec. 08, 2025, 11:02 a.m.A wet, heavy snow blanketed much of Central New York Tuesday morning, Dec.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32331,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-64855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-a-wet-heavy-snow-blanket-much-of-central-ny-tuesday-morning","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64855","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=64855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}