I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. After a winter of snow almost every day, budgets stretched to the breaking point, several fatal accidents, almost daily road closures, etc., etc., etc., the public is starting to express its dissatisfaction with the whole mess.
A week or two ago, citizens took county commissioners to task over the way Hwy. 20 is cleaned from Osborne bridge south. It seems that from Osborne bridge north, the snowplow drivers are Island Park residents (and thus supposedly have a vested interest in doing a better job on the roads.) From Osborne bridge south, “valley-dwellers” plow the roads (presumably with less vested interest in doing their best.
Now, I’m not going to comment on who takes their job more seriously, but you have to agree (if you’ve spent any time on Hwy. 20 at all.) that the road is in much better condition from Osborne bridge north. You also can’t dispute that the majority of the problems with accidents, etc. have been in the vicinity of federal hill (south of Pinehaven.) You also can’t dispute that after the bruhaha with the county commissioners, the quality of cleaning from Ashton to Osborne bridge improved.
I guess, at the end of the day, it does make a difference to get involved in the political process. If you go make your concerns known, they might not do anything about it. If you don’t make your concerns known, they for sure won’t do anything about it. So get involved!
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