Polotsk service cleaning streets sprinkled with sidewalks for pedestrians chemicals intended for treatment of roads. But it does not protect against ice that leads to injury of citizens, sometimes fatal.

In December 2014, when there was no snow, Polotsk cleaning services scattered along the roads and pavements white icing mixture. Along the avenue Francis Scorina walkway filled with white powder. The impression that the snow fell. Polotsk residents had to walk in the evening, chemical reagents, which caused outrage. Citizens began to complain to the municipal services and executive committee. On one of these complaints came a written response from the Deputy Chairman of the District Executive Committee Alexander Mikhalevich. From the answer it is clear that pedestrian sidewalks sprinkled reagents designed to highways and city authorities consider it normal.

Here is what Mr. Mikhalevich: "Polotsk Regional Executive Committee, having considered your complaints received on the phone" hotline ", reports that in order to ensure timely and high-quality clearing snow and ice from the streets of the city of Polotsk special base for the sanitation of the city is working on bedding deicing agents roadway and sidewalks. These works are carried out in accordance with the technical normative legal acts (TAP-100-2011 "Procedure for organizing and conducting winter maintenance of roads" and STB 1158-2008 "Materiapy icing for winter road maintenance. General specifications."

Polotsk resident Oleg outraged by the actions of public utilities: "In the evening it was impossible to walk along the avenue, everywhere was scattered white powder as the chemical attack. People walking their dogs, were forced to wear them on their hands to avoid being poisoned. What else is very outraged - heaps of this reagent were emptied under the trees, which can lead to tree death. Let's see what will happen in the spring, they will survive. "

Citizens complain about poor cleaning sidewalks of snow. Polotsk resident Elena: "This is the first winter I can remember, when absolutely no sand sidewalks ... and very bad road ... clean."

Fallen snow in January few places are cleaned on sidewalks and in the courts. Utilities practically stopped paying wipers for snow removal. Pedestrians gradually trample down the snow and ice formed track. When the thaw begins, the sidewalks are transformed into an ice rink. So was and 13 January after a night of rain at one degree when Polotsk residents came in the morning by a terrible ice. On this day, many are not able to avoid falls and injuries.

At the very crowded bus stop near the train station in the morning a man died. His body lay on the sidewalk long, covered with a film, while police conducted investigations. Although the authorities say the death of a stroke, but the citizens of death associated with a fall on ice. Guess confirmed by the fact that after the death on this site utilities urgently clear snow and ice from the sidewalk.

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Alexander Morozov