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Snow means tow: City tows 100 cars
Snow means tow: City tows 100 cars
By Steve Kemme • enquirer.com • February 11, 2010 Since Tuesday afternoon, Cincinnati police have ordered about 100 cars illegally parked on streets serving as emergency snow routes to be towed to nearby side streets. None of the cars were impounded and none of the car owners were given tickets, said Cincinnati Police Sgt. Bill Coombs, of the traffic unit. "Our goal is to make sure that (Public Services) can plow the snow emergency routes," he said. "Our goal is not to see how many cars we can impound or how many tickets we can issue." The towing began at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday - the starting time of a concerted effort by the city to identify and remove parked cars from emergency snow routes. City Manager Milton Dohoney had warned the public at a press conference earlier that day about the towing plan. The big push to move cars ended at 6 a.m., Wednesday - but the city is still officially under a snow emergency. . Cincinnati's emergency snow routes, which can be identified by posted signs, are portions of major streets with heavy commuter traffic. They include segments of such streets as Reading Road, Vine Street, Madison Road, Observatory Avenue, Queen City Avenue, Harrison Avenue, Montgomery Road, William Howard Taft Road, Dana Avenue, Ludlow Avenue and Colerain Avenue. Generally, road crews contact police when they come across a car that needs to be moved from an emergency snow route. Officers run the license plate number through their computer to find out the name and address of the car's owner. If the home is nearby, the officers will go there and ask the owner to move the car. About 100 owners have moved their own cars after being asked by police, Coombs said. "A couple of elderly people who were afraid of slipping outside gave us the keys and we moved their car for them," he said. Police understand that customers of businesses on the emergency snow routes might need to park on the street. Those cars aren't likely to be towed, Combs said. "If somebody is parked on a snow emergency route to run into a business and buy something, we're sympathetic to that," he said. Police always tried to have cars moved to the closest side street. But if the closest street had no parking spaces because of high snow banks along the curbs, the cars would be moved to the next closest street, Combs said. All five police district stations and the police public information office have been given lists of cars that have been moved. The list indicates where the cars were moved from and where they were moved to. http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs...S0108/2120327/ ----- - gpsman |
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Snow means tow: City tows 100 cars
gpsman > wrote in
: > > None of the cars were impounded and none of > the car owners were given tickets, said > Cincinnati Police Sgt. Bill Coombs, of the traffic > unit. > That'll teach 'em. |
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