So your closing a public street to traffic ,You know the thing that the roadway is intended for ? So lets just put up barriers at every enterance to the city so people have to walk and that will reduce accidents .

Dude, piss off already! Conversation is over.

You're very welcome, o00A00o,

Damn dude why are you so hostile lmao, chill out.

I also commented on a public forum that I think standards of quality matter and I don’t actually give a shit what you say.

I’m just commenting on a public forum, you’re the one who became defensive when I made an observation about my experience eating wings in the city. I didn’t personally attack your mother. I even said in my original comment that I didn’t expect you to make repeat visits, you just chose to latch on to other parts of my comment.

I find it hilarious you are writing novels. Make your own quest and set your own boundaries pal. Kindly stop reading if you don’t like my methods.

Cool post! Thanks for the update and communication, DOT.

I agree, and OP got super defensive when I pointed this out.

Oh yeah, that's a great example!

For reaching out to community associations, that's definitely something we do to some degree. Neighborhood facebook groups are another good resource.

Unfortunately, adding different individuals and groups makes a complex web of communication. The idea of getting some level of communication or data directly from the city DOT, which can quantify, collate, and highlight trends is so exciting because it lets us get more meaningful data, that's higher quality, with some expectation of consistency, without needing to navigate a network of complaints and hearsay gathered from a network of different sources.

Btw, do orange stickers means something is getting towed? There’s been a heroin brothel trailer in a no stopping zone on Buena Vista Ave in Hampden for two weeks that I noticed finally has an orange sticker.

I eat wings from Rocket to venus at least twice a month. Price is insane these days but I always enjoy the wings. Havent had undercooked wings there in years. I got to get back to ibar

Claddaghs wings might have the most underrated wings in the city, especially with their football Sunday 30 for $30 deal (which used to be like $20-25 prior to pandemic).

I don't think anyone wants to yell but the only time we've ever had any long DOT promised installation ever occur in my community it was because we threatened to sue or complained loudly enough someone finally listened.

Trying to work collaboratively? Yeah. My community is doing that right now and is about to lose a $50k grant DOT wrote a letter of support for because DOT is over a year late on even answering emails when they were supposed to install their part of the grant already.

So, it's going to have to come down to being loud and mad again.

Great breakdown... However you made the classic mistake of going with the standard/sloppy/soggy choice of a wet Buffalo sauce... Rather than the far superior old bay dry rub with Buffalo dipping sauce on the side.

I guess the plan was to get her a platform to deliver their rhetoric, and it worked.

We’re working hard at being more responsive; as well as talking about all the good stuff we do.

We do a TON. But we don’t always talk about it enough. We’re working on getting better at that.

Unrelated to the specific post, but I appreciate you guys communicating thru here. There have been a couple posts that have been helpful/useful info.

Yes; send them to us and we can at least look them up.

I have the 311 references numbers, multiple reference numbers, in my desk at home. I will send them to you, thank you for the help. Like I said the local leaders love the new big trucks, my guess is those companies make campaign donations. The pedestrians, cyclists and car users suffer. Even the infrastructure suffers, street signs knocked down, areas of Caton Avenue disintegrated from the heavy trucks. I have a file of the reference numbers I can share. Thank you.

This is interesting! I have heard folks in my neighborhood say that Google and Waze route people through Medfield via Grandview Ave when 83 is slow. Is that the sort of thing you’re looking for?

If that’s what you’re looking for, and you haven’t already, perhaps reach out to community associations. Those groups will likely know if GPS routing is an ongoing issue in their area.

Hold on a sec, let me ask my wife….

Maybe we should put more of those benches that say, “the city that reads”, at the intersection.

The police department could start issuing traffic violations again. Then over time people would learn you can't just ignore the laws.

We do not like being yelled at. Please don’t encourage more people to yell us, it doesn’t help.