Street Construction Gives New Meaning to "Uncoordinated"
A frustrated letter from a reader: I live at the corner of St. James Place and Atlantic Avenue. Today, construction crews started digging up the street yet again – I think it’s the third time in three years. I asked the crew what was going on and they said that they’re first testing the water…
A frustrated letter from a reader:
I live at the corner of St. James Place and Atlantic Avenue. Today, construction crews started digging up the street yet again – I think it’s the third time in three years. I asked the crew what was going on and they said that they’re first testing the water pipes and then plan on digging up more of the street to replace water pipes. I said “The street was just paved. Does that mean that there’s no coordination between street paving and water mains?” The guy replied with a smile, “Yes.” I was pretty horrified by this – what a waste of tax dollars. I noticed them digging on Waverly as well. I’d like to try to find the most productive way to suggest to the Bloomberg administration that coordination of road work may save lots of unneeded spending. Thoughts?
It actually seems like the kind of thing that would get Bloomberg’s goat.
This is all very organized corruption. It took over 3 years to repave Fulton Street from Classon down to Vanderbilt and they kept digging and repaving the same blocks dozens of times. I’d love to think complaining to Bloomberg would help but does anyone really think he cares about anyplace other than Manhattan? If he or any other Mayor ever had, Atlantic Avenue wouldn’t look like Baghdad. And its REALLY bad the further toward Queens you go
“Some of those DOT guys even chew tobacco.”
You certainly have high standards for your construction crews.
They did the same thing last year on Dekalb in Fort Greene. Repaved the street and then dug it up to lay new lines / wires / pipes. The bike lane in front of Brooklyn Tech is a total disaster now.
It just might work, but call 311 and have the operator route the complaint to the appropriate agency.
Or email Mayor Mike directly:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
Supposedly streets that have been recently resurfaced are not supposed to be opened except for emergencies.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/permits/protectedst.shtml
In actuality maybe just about everything is classified as an emergency though.
Dave is in bed frequently, to hear him tell it. 🙂
Huh! Draw blood.
“I saw a large grinder machine sitting on Remsen off of Court this am”
His hair was perfect
I saw a large grinder machine sitting on Remsen off of Court this am and was thinking the same thing…they just paved the street less than 6 months ago…WTF?