ST. LOUIS – Most neighborhood streets throughout the city are snowpacked and icy.
McRee Avenue off Tower Grove Avenue in south St. Louis City hasn’t been plowed.
Residents in the Botanical Heights neighborhood started a GoFundMe page to get their streets plowed by a private company because of the icy conditions.
A woman FOX 2 spoke with who lives off near Hampton Avenue has seen the same issues around her house.
“We’re fortunate right here, we live on the snow route. So we’re a little spoiled because, you know, just taking side streets to get away from some of the traffic on Hampton. And they’re absolutely, nothing is plowed,” Ellen Bell, a south St. Louis City resident, said. “I was just thinking, ‘How do people get out of their houses?’ It’s, you know, how many days in? And they’re still not plowed.”
Now it’s a political talking point. There is a candidate for mayor who is making this a campaign issue, saying that he’s going to plow them if they’re elected.
“It’s crazy that that would be a political issue. I mean, I wouldn’t say that it would draw me to vote against somebody who I thought I was going to if they said they weren’t going to, but that’s definitely an interesting perspective that I didn’t think of,” she stated.
To make matters more complex, the St. Louis’ Streets Department cut its snow removal budget in half for 2025.
“I don’t know what the solution is, but I think this big snow maybe will kick things into gear so that they can figure out what to do moving forward,” Bell said.