Very large mound of plowed snow blocks the critical bike/ped access on W Allen at the bridge between Walnut and Morton. Thank you in advance for resolving (and hopefully not letting it keep happening).
This will be my 4th winter in bloomington as I am a senior in college and this city really needs some MAJOR renovations to the roads, sidewalks, trees blocking stop signs, etc. My particular issue right now is the extreme safety issue that it poses when the city fails to salt the sidewalks. In my hometown, there was RARELY a time that it snowed and there wasn’t salt on every sidewalk in town, or at least the sidewalks that any students would need to use to walks or ride buses to school. I understand that Bloomington is a bit of a larger town and some of this could be an issue for the IU campus management too, but it seems like the city fails to salt the sidewalks if they ever even do. They should be ensuring that sidewalks get salted even if there isn’t a high chance of snow. For example, tonight at the IU purdue game on november 30th, I saw so many people slipping and sliding and it did not seem like there was any salt on the sidewalks anywhere near 17th street. I almost fell multiple times and I was closely looking at the ground for salt and it did not seem like there was any. I have also noticed similar issues in previous years when there has been snow, the sidewalks are never salted or cleared for students walking to class from off campus. I know you can probably only control what is considered the city of bloomington and not IU campus, but if we are going to care enough about safety to line the entirety of 17th street’s sidewalks with fences and security guards, you would think the least you guys could do would be put down some salt. I’m really failing to understand why it is SO hard for this city to put salt down, like my dad taught me how to salt our driveway when I was like 14. I swear I could put salt down all of 17th street faster than this city could because this city isn’t even capable of maintaining streets and sidewalks that aren’t covered in potholes and uneven surfaces.
ice solid on sidewalk outside building
Alleyway is very icy that is running onto the main road. If the sun/temperatures today do not melt ice, this is a fall hazard for pedestrians.
I let you there ice on sidewalk outside of city hall that be dangerous for pedestrians go city hall
Sidewalk not cleared of snow.
So many houses not shoveling. Here’s a list of what I found on a walk: 613 S. Park Ave. 601 S. Park Ave. 801 E. 2nd St. 523 Park Ave. 515 S. Park Ave. 518 S. Park Ave. 730 East Hunter St. 802 East Hunter St. 817 East Hunter St. 822 East Hunter St. 502 Woodlawn. 510 Woodlawn 514 Woodlawn 516 and 518 Woodlawn 528 on the corner. Every house at the intersection of second Street and Woodlawn. 912 2nd St. 914 2nd St. 1012 2nd St. 528 S Highland 1409 E. 2nd St. 525 South Swain St. 1807 2nd St.
Rental house, not shoveling
Property management company cleared most sidewalks at The Crossing at Pete Ellis but neglected sidewalk leading up to left half of this building. Sidewalk serves 4 separate units. Still covered in snow as of Sunday afternoon from Friday storm. Thank you!
There are a lot of rental houses around here, not shoveling. Please walk around the block and start issuing citations.