[Summit] street sink-hole

[Hope for Health]

We've been noticing for some time that 4th Street from North Main
up is very bad - and the place you mention is the worst.

Two thoughts: 

1. Maybe Monica or someone else from Miriam Hospital
could complain about it - someone trying to get to the hospital
might have severe damage done to them by the jolting of hitting
this hole.

2. Maybe some pressure from SNA directed to Mayor Tavares would
have an effect.  I was a few years back in getting Mayor Cicilline
to have a No Parking to Corner Sign put in at 4th & Hope after 
I had an accident there because of a car blocking my view as I turned.

Blessings,

Liberty G

--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur <marthur at ric.edu> wrote:

> From: Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur <marthur at ric.edu>
> Subject: [Summit] street sink-hole
> To: "summit at sna.providence.ri.us" <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011, 10:16 PM
> On 4th Street half way up the block
> from North Main, there is a kind of a sink hole in the
> pavement that seems to have been the result of improper
> street repair work after National Grid dug up the streets
> last summer. In April, a car broke its axle in the hole.
> Between that driver, myself, and others nearby I know the
> issue has been reported to the city quite a number of times,
> yet there has been no response. Every day I hear dozens of
> cars and trucks bottoming out it in and in fact it makes
> that part of the street entirely unsafe to drive in. And in
> my opinion, this is more dangerous than an ordinary pothole,
> since even if you are going quite slowly you can't tell that
> the problem exists until after your car bottoms out on the
> way out of the hole. Even if there is some reason that the
> issue can't be repaired at the moment, there should really
> be a traffic cone or something to mark the spot and prevent
> drivers from driving there (though with parking on the
> street, that would reduce traffic to a single lane--but
> still, better than breaking an axlel!)
> 
> So on the one hand, consider this a warning so you'll know
> to look out for it. On the other--any suggestions for
> getting some sort of reponse--even the temporary traffic
> cone kind--from the city?
> 
> --Mikaila
> 
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