BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- FOX25's Political Reporter Sharman Sacchetti got results Wednesday after some Boston residents complained about Mayor Marty Walsh's decision to go ahead with the Super Bowl Parade, saying he is prioritizing the Patriots over his city's people.
Neighbors on one street told Sacchetti that they've been trying to get someone out from the city to plow, but weren't able to. So Sacchetti asked Walsh why he had the routes cleared for the Patriots and not the people.
He made her a promise, and delivered.
Eighty-one-year-old Peter Cipriano trudged through snow to take out the trash Wednesday because the East Boston side-street he lives on still hadn't been plowed.
"We depend on the city to come here every time it snows but as you can see it hasn't been plowed at all," Cipriano told Sacchetti.
His daughter says she believes the mayor neglected Lamson Court because he was too focused on holding a parade and clearing the route for the Patriots. And she's not happy.
"I understand, alright, Super Bowl, yeah big deal," she said. "But like he said, you know, what about us?"
Another area resident Charles Cheffro said he called the mayor's office and they told him they were planning to plow, "but they never came down."
So Sacchetti talked to the mayor herself.
"Let me just be perfectly clear. Last night we removed over 150,000 tons of snow from the streets of Boston. Less than 10 percent of that snow came from Boylston Street," Walsh said.
The mayor also said he didn't favor one street over another, and certainly not the Patriots over the people of Boston. He also said having the parade Wednesday was the right decision for Boston.
"I think my criticism, if I didn't have a parade, would have been far greater than having it," he said.
So what will he do to help the people in East Boston like Cipriano?
Walsh says that was the first he'd heard of the 81-year-old and said he would get someone over there as soon as the interview with Sacchetti was completed.
"Yeah, no that's the first I've heard of it so as soon as we're done with this interview I'll make sure that happens," Walsh said.
And 90-minutes after the interview, he got a plow out to that street and homeowners called Sacchetti to thank her.
Walsh also said that starting Wednesday night, the city will be ticketing homeowners if they don't shovel their sidewalks.
