Have they been on social st?? Especially at the E. School st intersection?? It's a mess. People have been getting stuck or sliding out of control all day.

Woonsocket Roads are unsafe due to bad plowing. This city should hire another company. These roads are putting people’s lifes at risk. Bordering towns are down to the tar and we are still full of snow. What are we paying taxes for?

same here in the globe park district the roads are HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!

was very upsett i had to pay teenagers to shovel my driveway three times because the plows covered my driveway after plowing and when i waved the plow truck who i saw do it he ignored me im disabled and on a fixed income how ignorant

Where the heck are they? Ward street is mess and we're expected to be at work tomorrow. We can't even leave the yard

Plows left driveways a mess too on Aylsworth Ave,and practically,all of Woonsocket is on a hill,so either way you going up a hill or down a hill,and it makes it quite dangerous,driving,when the roads are still covered with snow or ice?

Hey Rick, millions of dollars to replace trucks and yet if one contractor blows a transmission, the city is left un-plowed? Ever hear of preventative maintenance?

How many trucks and plow units are on the sidelines due to improper maintainence?

This guy needs a real good lesson in Department of Public Works financing and preventative maintenance 101.

This just goes to show how inept these guys are in their positions and are working in a complete bubble when it comes to running a REAL DPW Department and city department in general!

Again, 2 and a half million dollars in the DPW budget and these are the LAME excuses we get as tax payers?

Hey Rick, this is New England, it actually snows here in the winter you know?

Prepare for it and do your job!

My neighborhood streets are a mess also. Whoever plowed left an awful lot of snow in the middle of the roads and some intersections are downright dangerous. Mr. Lambert needs to ride around the city and really see the mess. This morning we took a ride into Smithfield and North Smithfield. There streets are MUCH better cleaned than ours and they are sanded - even the back roads. The streets in my neighborhood are very snowy and not sanded.

Old fleets, transmissions, etc... always and excuse yet we were made to believe that the city was well managed except for the school department budget. Why aren't the roads at least treated? Where are the troops cleaning out the storm drains with reports calling for rain on Monday? It is very sad to drive to surrounding communities and see treated and well plowed main roads. If the response to the crisis was so overwhelming, why are the roads still so bad??

They are all a mess and dangerous. The Bernon district is no better and Park Ave was outrageous this morning. I saw a fire truck having a difficult time getting around. Forgetting sanding and just put the plow down and get the mush off the streets. Then you can sand. Common sense, oh wait we are talking about Woonsocket officials who just like to waste money. This is why so many people are trying to leave this city.

Woonsocket already has a trash tax. Soon we might have a snow tax. If you don't pay, you would get plowed.

Meant to say won't not want. Sorry

Municipalities are crippled to purchase equipment due to the high benefits packages that they have to shell out to municipal employees. Just look at their budget breakouts - whatever is left is used for equipment, which is scant. They are running on empty and they refuse to cut their budgets. There is plenty of wasteful spending going on in all of these municipalities.

Dpw is a bigger mess than the roads. Friends who hire friends who hire friends and leave the taxpayer with the bill. Jobs should be taken away from from all involved let's start with the mayor and city council who collect checks and pensions and give nothing to the tax payer

Plow went down my street 3 times in 2 days but hasn't dropped the plow yet but is sanding over the packed down snow there is at least 12 inches of snow hip deep from the side walk into the road u can barely fit two cars down my street today the ambulance could not get a stretcher inside a guys house they had to Carry him out east school street is a cut threw for the fire dept and this road was poorly taken care of we got and alert call from the city saying they were brining in heavy equipment to clear the streets and side walks but who's side walks and what streets is the question

Really come take a look @ Newport street!!! Cuz ours isn't cleared & we have piles that are 5 ft away from the curb & @ the end of the street you can't see to get on to park ave!!

Streets are clear what city is he living or working in.This is by far the worst ever in plowing I've ever seen.Good job Mayor your street looks good.Our we out of sand and salt to.The more we pay in taxes the less we get.Rob it is the age of the equipment I worked for highway from 79-84 they never have replaced anything it was always a mickey mouse fix,I think this was done purposely.

There is NOW WAY that I would consider many of the streets I traveled this morning to be sufficiently plowed. I traveled from Winter St, down North Main, onto Main (main St was pretty good), over the court st bridge (a mess!), and then onto park ave (pretty good). I traveled to Coventry, and I can easily say that Woonsockets Streets are the worst I encountered. Streets in the logee street area are also very bad!!

Debt service is what's important here,not plowing streets.Investors get paid (plus interest).Stop complaining everyone,at least bondholders are made whole.Snow plow types will have to wait and blown transmissions are just tough.

Gotta keep that crummy bond rating up so we can borrow more in the future,debt is good people.

Has anyone heard from or gotten any updates from the Woonsocket Public Safety Director as to the state of the DPW and the conditions of the city's streets? Just wondering..........

Did the Mayor or city counsel president speak directly to the taxpayers and report how they feel the plowing is going? (Are their streets plowed down to the pavement?) I saw many of the other mayors from surround towns and cities on the news. Of course nothing from Cumberland either. Cumberland is a mess. How about Lincoln?

Our Mayor should be proud,Snow removal fee tax.DO NOT PASS THAT TO THE MAYOR OR WARD,THEY WOULD BE UP FOR IT.THIS CITY STINKS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.Be careful a councilman may call the talk show to cry.We're not idiots he chants.We're just a bit slow.

I started to read the comments and it seems the complaints start with someone not liking the plows passing by and the snow ending up in his driveway, then go on to compalin about something the writer is privy to, but not the "point" of the article and ends up with everyone bashing their own city. Wow. Perhaps you all need to be proactive, Clean the sidewalk in front of your house. Realize snow plow drivers needs sleep and to be paid. I'm glad to say, my town is clean as a whistle. I live on a private dirt road, and even that was cleaned yesterday by a front loader. Perhaps I should have sent them to Woonsocket?

WOW! nothing has changed steve still rants about anything and everything but the topic in front of him.

It never would of happened with Mr. Annarumo sp? He was a competant DPW director. He knew what had to be done and he got it done. this women hasn't a Clue!!! It's a wonder she know the way to her job!!

Steve! I absolutley agree with you, Novan has no clue what the hell is going on around this city!! come and pay our taxes and see if you don't complain about this storm and they way it was not plowed properly. I have lived hee all my life and have never seen it in this condition. Novan, don't make comments on things you know nothing about. Steve, keep on commenting!!!

i have seen how poorly things were done around (here) hee. I to have lived here my entire life but unfortunately the plowing has always been this poor. Mew you shouldn't stick your nose in other peoples conversations it's rude!

I can't wait for the "reciever" and the two-thirds "bankruptcy".

Do we even have a City Council.Oh yah that's right.They couldn't make any decision to cut out waste. So its the BC.I still say the ties they wear are just to tight.We can't call them names they cry on the radio.Preventive Maintenance is one of many things the coucil does not comprehend.Words are to big.The problem is all upstairs and the person sitting in the Council Presidents seat.Farmville is calling both.Does it snow there?