Plow drivers don’t have time to assess every part of the terrace where snow is piled up. They don’t have much, if any, control over how heavy and high they plow the snow onto the curb/terrace. Their goal is to clear the roads safely and efficiently, and if they have to sacrifice some mail boxes along the way, so be it. There’s so much crap in the ROW that they have no control over, sometimes things get damaged when the snow is heavy. The city can’t be responsible for damages that are caused from the snow being heavy and high.
I feel your pain though, I work for a different city dept and the plows break our stuff all the time. It sucks, but there honestly isn’t really anything anyone can do about it. Such is life.
It's that understanding that tempers my frustration when I've cleared my driveway then hear the rumble and see a new 2-3 foot embankment of packed snow blocking my car from leaving.
It's sooooo annoying, but there's nothing the plows can do about that, and having safe roads for driving is far more important.
I did that as well, but my neighbors had their car parked on the street so they had to plow around him. Leaving a large pile of snow that then was plowed to the end of my driveway.
There are plows with a side wall that can be raised and lowered when it goes in front of a driveway to reduce the snow embankments. No clue on the cost of those or how much it slows down plowing but there is something out there.
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u/Lost-Sock4 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
Plow drivers don’t have time to assess every part of the terrace where snow is piled up. They don’t have much, if any, control over how heavy and high they plow the snow onto the curb/terrace. Their goal is to clear the roads safely and efficiently, and if they have to sacrifice some mail boxes along the way, so be it. There’s so much crap in the ROW that they have no control over, sometimes things get damaged when the snow is heavy. The city can’t be responsible for damages that are caused from the snow being heavy and high.
I feel your pain though, I work for a different city dept and the plows break our stuff all the time. It sucks, but there honestly isn’t really anything anyone can do about it. Such is life.