In front of pirate museum, the street along side of steves and post office their is no open parking spaces. Will the city be removing that?

Fowler St and N PIne were barely plowed and need sidewalks cleared.

Hardy Street needs sidewalks cleared and some plowing closer to the curbs.

Essex Street please...

Bridge St across from Jefferson apartments. No sidewalk.

Anywhere in the Point, but particularly Salem Street intersection at Dow Street

Boston St and Watson St are terrible very few people have shoveled the sidewalks and it would be great if the city cleaned up the street a little more so us renters have somewhere to park..

Whalers Lane, Traders Way, 1st Street.

Thanks everyone! Our map is really coming together.

1,3,5, & 7 Williams - shoveled from doors to street, but sidewalks not done
Also Williams to the Witch Museum
In front of The Great Escape - people still walking on the Bypass Road - - - at night...
Front St onto Washington St between Adriatic and Washington - NEVER cleared.
Bridge St - From Howard to the Bypass Road and corner of Howard and Bridge
St. Peter and Bypass Road - block surrounding St Peter side of Great Escape and condos

Lynch Street. Idiots are parking there even though there's no room.

Pathway along the bypass please as there are significant portions of Bridge St. where the sidewalks haven't been cleared.

Also, basically all of the side streets between Derby and Essex should be posted no parking.

Barstow St!! Is Just Horrid!! & Balcomb St!! Is Deplorable!!! Who's in Charge of this in Salem!??????

Jackson St., on the side opposite the middle school. Not a great place for the kids to be walking in the street.

Bridge Street from the Ukrainian Catholic Church, I noted property at 130, 134, 136, crosswalk at Northey. Either the city enforces the ordinance or they clear the bike path so those on Bridge Street Neck can walk to the train station without getting hit. Or better yet do BOTH. I've had several close calls yesterday and this morning b/c I was forced to walk on the street. Also, they need to start sanding/salting the roads. The Jefferson FINALLY got it right this time and cleared their sidewalks and crosswalks all the way to the train station. Bravo!

Agreed, Renee !!! The city HAS to enforce the sidewalk ordinance... I know 'folks' think there are bigger fish to fry, but when you get hit, when my son and I get hit walking to school, and when half my neighbors get hit b/c we ALL walk EVERYWHERE, which is one of the reasons we chose to live in Salem, it begins to defeat the purpose of our being one of the Commonwealth's most walkable cities. I realize roads need to be clear so emergency vehicles can pass, but you and I pay taxes too, and would like some of that plow-reserve-cash that hasn't been used in the last year and a half, to go toward my family's use of the public walkways as well.

Marlborough at Verdon, That side walk never gets shoveled and the worst part is the young children wait for the school bus at that corner and have to stand in the street.

Leavitt Street is a bus route and main route into Shetland Park for the morning commute. There is about 2-3 feet of snow off the curb on each side of the street. Not only does that hinder resident parking, but makes it difficult for the MBTA and emergency vehicles to pass. Chase Street is also poorly plowed, but is not as main of a road.

turner, turner did I say TURNER STREET.

48 English St
62 Derby St on the English St side
Swiniuch park, of course. City owned sidewalks never get cleared!

Tremont and School...Across the street from "Your Neighborhood Market" ... 2 doors down from the kiddo's bus stop... ALL the other sidewalks done but ONE... yet ya look and driveway done, door to street done.... Yet they left the sidewalks UNTOUCHED and it is directly near the Senior Housing too.... ANNOYING.... My worry is the kids getting the bus! AND they elderly trying to get to the corner store if they need something....

Boston st across from Walgreens, the people waiting for bus are standing in the already dangerous road!

Franklin st and Osbourne st.Always the businesses blocking sidewalks and clearing the driveways.

Mason going toward North right before the Citgo. Several homes shoveled their sidewalks to a point, but they end in giant dead ends, possibly caused by snowplows. Folks have to walk out into the street.

Essex Street area near Forester to Web. Both sides of Essex. Fell this morning cuz I had to go down a driveway covered in Ice cuz ppl only shovel in front the house and leave a bank where there property ends. So you have no choice but to walk the street.

Most of the sidewalks School St have not been shoveled.

Lafayette between Clifton and West, both sides. These are never shoveled.

Bridge St. @ Washington from the intersection to Ash St. is mostly unplowed. The Federal St. condos on the corner never plow the adjoining public street, even though it is heavily used by transit users to get to Salem Depot.

So let's get out the citation book. This is going to be a really expensive cleanup, let's make sure the people who don't do their part get to pay for it.

You can start at 25 and 27 Becket, as well as The laundromat building at the corner of Becket/Derby, which always "forgets" to shovel the Becket St side clean.

I think most of us are noting that it is the same places over and over. Like the police fine for a disorderly house, enforcing the fine for unsafe walkways may be the only solution to getting folks to ensure the safety of their community.

I live on Mason and walk down Flint to get to Bridge Street on my way to the train station. I walk the whole time in the street because there's hardly any sidewalk.. and the sidewalks that are clear just abruptly end with a huge pile of snow, so it's pointless to use.

Sidewalks or not, the whole city was treacherous after that rain/freeze combo. The sidewalks I did use were like skating rinks.

Highland Ave has partial clearing so pedestrians have to walk in the street in many spots.The most dangerous of all the above mentioned concidering that we have two schools in that area.

Essex Street, Derby Street, Herbert Street or just about anywhere in the Historic/Derby area.

Derby St is an interesting mix. I've managed to stay on sidewalks by zigging and zagging across the street where the cleared sidewalks stop and start!

As to those big piles of snow at the end of shoveled paths, how much more would you have us property owners shovel? Beyond our own properties? Dig through that waist high pile of ice on the curb deposited by the city, or those piles on the corners that are over my head? Let's be realistic here. However, do feel free to grab a shovel and have at it.

Derby Street next to the Hess station is never shoveled by the landlord and the hess station should clear their sidewalk in front of station.....both have never done it in the 7 years ive been here. Walking in the street is dangerous for all residents....

Another feather in the Mayor's cap

If the wonderful Salem Police would do there jobs and fine these idiots they would have enough money to pay for snow removal.

The corner of Dearborn and North Street. There are many businesses on North Street that shoveled only a section of the sidewalk in front of them and then left a two-foot wide pile of snow on either side, which doesn't help pedestrians at all. (Like the pizza place or the Hess Station)

summer street off of jefferson

Just got back from a walk downtown. I really didn't think it that bad. The two places that jumped out at me were Brookhouse on Derby and the women's clinic on the corner of New Derby and Hawthorne (L Pinkham bldg). Both have paths shoveled in front of the buildings but not along the rest of the properties. Kind of weird!

On a positive note, I'm really glad that the city quit turning the 'hood into a salt mine at the merest hint of ice. Some of us got busy calling and emailing about that, and it seems to have helped. They do catch it from both sides re: ice, but the insane amounts of salt that they were using could seriously be detrimental. It filters into ground water, soil around plants, and no doubt the harbor; flies in the air as dust when cars whiz by, and I'm sure isn't good for small four footed things closer to the ground.

Francis road at Jackson - very dangerous I called mayors office Dpw and middle school and no one owed it.

Bridge Street and the bike path on the bypass. These have been mentioned, but bears repeating.

While I think this article is great, and may have prompted the latest email from the City (Reminder: Please shovel your sidewalks.), how should you email uncleared sidewalk complaints to the Inspectional services Dept? email the Director, Thomas J. St. Pierre, tstpierre@salem.com ?

It seems premature to fine citizens for not clearing sidewalks before the town clears streets. The purpose of the parking ban was for curb to curb cleaning, but I haven't seen a plow on the side streets of the Seven Gables neighborhood since early Sunday morning, which means the entire neighborhood is still jockeying for spaces in public lots.

Bedford Street on the right side coming out of the Witchcraft Heights School. My kids and I had to walk in the street as all of the cars were coming out of the school lot and we had to weave in and out behind parked cars to avoid stepping out in front of moving cars. It's very dangerous for walking students and something needs to be done about it before someone gets run down!

Ord St. And Puritan Road around Witchcraft Heights Elementary school. No sidewalks are cleared on either city school property or in front of private homes. Really tough for school kids and us dog walkers.

Thank you 3 Williams !
Thank you whoever did Front St between The Adriatic and Washington St !

I do plenty of walking around the city, most of it in the middle of Essex street lately. I agree that ppl should be clearing their sidewalks. I just think it would be hypocritical of the city to fine citizens before it finishes its own cleanup.

I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about the application of the law regarding sidewalks when the city plows the street snow up on the sidewalk because there is just no other place for them to put it. Are residents still responsible for clearing those sidewalks?

The city had issued more than 100 tickets by midday yesterday. St. Pierre estimated that 200 tickets will have been handed out by today.
Good, maybe they will learn a lesson. If they defy the city and don't shovel next storm the fine gets jacked up. Patch has done a great service for the citizens of Salem.

Thank you 5 Williams !!!
Any chance on 7 Williams ?
And Front Street - wow - looking fabulous!
Lots and lots of effort going on - much appreciated !

The law says that citizens cannot throw snow into the streets, yet the city will not just throw the snow onto the sidewalks but also hold citizens
accountable to clean it up. In some neighborhoods its being thrown onto citizens property and expected that they must clean it it up. This is NOT just
irresponsible but it causes monetary pain and or physical pain to its citizens.
What archaic government system can hold a double standard so to subject the people to laws that they themselves are not also being held
accountable to. Oh yea, this was (for one ) in 12 century England, before the Magna Charta, and the liberation of its people and recent history the U.S.A.

Yes Bob! I must be a woman and you must be just a plan idiot that has friends at city hall that makes sure you get plowed out OK!

I agree, because nature hit home owners hard enough, but the city hits even harder by also plowing it onto us. I agree with the comment that its a double standard, and even unconstitutional to ticket home owners for the city's mess. Unfortunately too for me is, yes I am ONLY a female and trying to be a home owner too.

Yes Bob (mr. miserable) i am aware that your comment is sexist! Seems ike you just need attention tho so you've got it, negeative as it is.

I put that comment out there to see if women would pull the political correctness argument by calling me a sexist or look at the other true nature of the comment. It did just what I thought it would. Never mind about the poor suffering people, just 'oh, what a sexist" .Why not move down south and then you don't have to worry about shoveling, just hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, drought, floods. Just saying.

hahaha. I like your comeback. It really made me laugh.You would be an excellent trash talker on Fantasy football. seriously.

Jenie, before you make a comment out of ignorance, check out all the posts made not just one. And Btw, take a lesson from Carolyn, she really knows how to trash talk with some class.
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But I shovelled my sidewalk last night did you?