“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,” as Marc Antony said in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Far be it from me to defend the failed, inept and clearly corrupt administration of Dave Bronson, but I see letter after letter complaining about the lack of or abysmal snow removal in our city. I still cannot believe, like those who relearn to drive every first snowfall, how few of my fellow Anchorage residents don’t realize that if you drive to work on it, it’s likely a state-maintained road.
Benson and Northern Lights boulevards, Debarr Road, Tudor Road, etc., are all state roads, thus state-maintained, thus state-plowed. The blame, or responsibility, falls squarely on the shoulders of your governor. A whopping 49% of you who voted, voted for this.
Mind you, it’s been what a week since the last snowflake fell and I have yet to see the second lane of any of these roads. Has anyone seen a plow? A grader? Someone from DOT clearing the majority roads we need to conduct commerce in this city? I certainly hope you all enjoyed that $3,284 Permanent Fund dividend, because we have seen the past four years, and the next four will be just like this, only worse, because now the governor doesn’t have to even pretend to care.
— Shawn O’Donnell
Anchorage
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