When it comes to enforcement of restrictions during the winter months, here in Brookfield they have two different standards.
As reported in the Jan. 21 Landmark ("Brookfield puts in call for more road salt") Village Manager Ginex stated that police wrote 748 tickets so far to residents in violation of parking restrictions.
Now, what about the businesses that clear the parking places for their customers and pile the snow on the sidewalks? How many tickets were written for that?
Every winter, instead of writing tickets for that violation, Brookfield spends thousands of dollars and brings out dump trucks and front-end loaders and hauls away those piles of snow. How much money does the village of Brookfield collect from the businesses for removing those illegal piles of snow? I'll bet not one red cent.
Ogden Avenue is now cleared so that pedestrians don't have to walk in the roadway, but what about 47th Street from Maple Avenue west?
Ted Schwartz
Brookfield
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