Bus drivers and cabbies griped on Wednesday about battling unplowed, dangerous roads.
“It’s rough. It’s very, very bad out there,” said Stan Winslow, a 50-year-old MTA bus driver in the Bronx. “Sanitation just isn’t getting the job done.”
Jimmy, a bus driver whose route goes down Second Avenue, was angry at how untouched the Upper East Side was — and blasted Mayor de Blasio.
“We were told not to go down Second Avenue in Manhattan, because it wasn’t plowed yet,” he said on the Curtis and Kuby show this morning. “What a mess. I think de Blasio does discriminate against neighborhoods. We’re a 45,000 pound bus coming down Second Avenue. We can’t turn it around like a Volkswagen.”
On the Upper West Side, M5 bus driver Debra Williamson said she had to battle the rough weather on her route today, and wanted salt trucks to have started earlier.
“All the way down Riverside Drive, there was packed ice,” she said.
Hacks were also upset about the pace at which roads were dug out from snow.
Green cab driver Florentino Martinez, 57, said it took him three hours to travel from Washington Heights to pick up his cab near Yankee stadium.
“When I took the cab to Manhattan, it was crazy,” he said. “I was slipping and sliding.”
One yellow cab driver found himself stuck at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and 43rd Street—and was helped out by good Samaritans passing by. His wheels were spinning, sending snow flying until he could start moving again.
“This is madness,” he said. “Why is it not cleaned?”