The state of the lower bridge in particular is horrific. Every car that passes is at risk of becoming badly damaged. Please consider posting a detour until all of this is attended to.

The bridge is the property and responsibilty of the MaDOT

So is this to mean you've contacted MaDOT or are we as residents responsible for this? Is this a "we have nothing to do with it so don't bother us with it" comment? Police vehicles cross the bridges dozens of times daily, certainly there must be some way of prioritizing this. Repairs to the bridge are slated in the near future as far as I know, as part of the canal walk project I believe, how about having some of this expedited? I really don't get the DPW response to this. As much as I hate to say it, it's very "typical Holyoke". Make a complaint or raise an issue and someone will pass it off to someone else and not make any effort to resolve the situation. Certainly the DPW can at the very least detour traffic. If the Mayors office wants nothing to do with it, and the DPW wants nothing to do with it, and in my past experience getting MassDot to reply to ANYTHING is near impossible I guess the city is electing to face repair coverage for the vehicles with blown-out tires and suspension damage? My car actually got stuck in the trench on the lower bridge as you have to drive extremely slow to pass. I had to rock the car backwards to get out of it and pass in the on-coming lane. This was even covered in a Massive article, what does someone have to do to motivate some action on this, or get someone, anyone, to take some initiative? This reminds me of the time I had to practically beg the DPW to pick up recycling at my home. It took forever to get in to see the right person, when I did I was argued with and the person involved actually wanted to come in and see my space, then it took weeks for the guys to actually pick it up. They'd pick up all the other recycling in front and leave mine on the curb, leaving me to do the run-around again at DPW. Off topic, I know, but just an example of what on earth does it take to get someone to care?

yes MaDOT has been notified

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