Saturday, August 24, 2013

REPAVING: A NECESSARY DISRUPTION POORLY HANDLED

We were among several streets in town getting repaved this week. a great improvement, yes, and now the street looks terrific.

However, the communications on this effort were poor to bad, with a flyer sent around juSt a few days before telling residents the street would be closed to all traffic for an entire day yesterday.

This required residents to either keep their cars in the driveway or get up early before 7 a.m. and relocate them, not a great problem.

To its credit, the police allowed cars to be parked on the street overnight last night and avoid a ticket if residents called and gave their license plate number and location. Excellent.

It would have been nice if the flyer alerting residents had also noted this. It did not.

Still, for those who like to plan ahead, some earlier notice would have helped. For folks perhaps moving or otherwise needing to get in and out of their driveways with the car, this completely shut down the plans.

One would think planning is done for such projects at least weeks ahead of time, and residents could have been advised weeks ahead of time.

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