Side roads deserve more snow-removal attention

Our family finally broke “out of the cabin” on Sunday about 10:30 a.m., after our Blizzard of 2016. In the bright sunshine we slipped and slid our way through the slush in our subdivision onto U.S. 150 and down Jake Alexander Boulevard, which we found being dry. Then today many things were once again closed due to the lack of plowing and treatments of side roads and subdivisions. This I do understand; who wants a 25,000-pound school bus with up to 80 kids slipping and sliding down hills and around curves?

What I don’t understand is why, almost three days after the snow and ice stopped and a day of 50-degree temperatures with bright sunshine, has nothing been done on these back roads when main roads are dry?

During the last two days, on three trips down the three-mile trip to Jake Alexander, I have seen seven road graders and plow trucks traveling the roads, blade up and not treating anything. The side roads and subdivisions pay their taxes, too, and deserve to have at least minimal maintenance done on their roads.

If they would have taken these graders down these unattended roads instead of driving down the wide open main roads, while the sun had slushed up the ice, they too could have been dry or at least easily and safely passable instead of frozen ice after the overnight freeze.

— Jack Neubacher

Salisbury

Delivery not important?

I know that we have had a couple of inches of snow and ice, but U.S. Postal Service mail delivery and the delivery of the Salisbury Post don’t seem to have the importance that they did during my youth.

The mail was always delivered, except on federal holidays, and you could count on a newspaper everyday with the exception of Christmas. I remember carriers equipping their cars with chains to ensure that their customers would get their daily paper.

As for the USPS, whatever happened to the creed inscribed on the General Post Office facility on 33rd Street in New York: “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. — Herodotus, 503 B.C.”

I guess 24-hour news channels on TV, the ability to surf the web to get news and the use of texting and e-mail to communicate with others make the timely delivery of mail and newspapers less important.

— Alvin Park

China Grove

Editor’s note: Salisbury Post carriers made every effort deliver papers to subscribers. Some roads were too dangerous.

Good work, guys and gals

No one wants any postal worker to make his or her rounds when it is dangerous to do so.  They are good people who give us good service and we thank them all.  However, please allow me to give a salute to the carriers of the Salisbury Post who did complete their appointed rounds.  Good work, guys and gals. We appreciate the job you do for us.

— Gordon  Correll

Salisbury

Thank my carrier

Please thank my paper carrier for going the extra mile to get me three days of newspapers Sunday. They were complete dry.

 — Pat Beck

Salisbury

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