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My husband and I just came back from a walk on Q-Ave and almost at the intersection of Q-ave and East Grand, contractors are installing u-verse. the last van was parked on sidewalk so that I had to roll my baby carriage (WITH BABY!!) onto Q-Ave. I spoke to the driver of the van who told me that there was a police officer right there who was "directing" traffic. I said something to the police man and he said that people would park on the street if their cars didn't get hit. WHAT??? So...according to the police...its more important to keep cars safe than people/kids. I wasn't aware of the new policy on sidewalks. YAHOO New Haven.
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ben (Guest)
Is there an issue that can be fixed here?
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
FairHaven H (Guest)
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David Streever (Registered User)
I think this should be held open until the City replies--and AT&T as well. I just added AT&T to the list of people getting notified.
I just saw it on the NHI & think we should keep it there a little longer, especially with the nonsense of our extremely negligent city failing to pave Whitney even in our "boom years".
David Streever (Registered User)
Heather Findlay (Guest)
Streever,
Open it shall stay...I agree that the City and more importantly the PD should be responding since an officer was the one who also told me to use the street to pass instead of the sidewalk! At this point I don't expect much from either the City or PD...they have this "Safe Streets" program, but who exactly are they trying to keep the streets safe for????
It seems like these problems are growing...maybe because there are more active citizens actually calling the City on this stuff??
David Streever (Registered User)
Hey Heather,
yes largely I think it's more active citizens :)
The City Hall staff I know are over-worked & not able to respond to everything, so only the stuff we harp on gets through. low signal to noise ratio.
Street Smarts is a good program! but it just has to be used by everyone. I think that is off to a good start--and of course, it's one department behind that, and another behind this ;-).
mike (Guest)
I apologize in advance to seeclickfix if this sounds like political blogging.
joey (Guest)
He is on Overtime and they are the master,they can and would demand a new Officer,he would have been blacklisted
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Joe E (Guest)
They are concerned only with the small group of elected officials and their contributors or business associates in your ward ,Or the ward they are patroling and pulling OT at. Like State Rep Staples and his long time real estate supporters, Does your Ward Alder sit on the Human Services Bd ? you can spot many a cop up there with the Mayor Appointed leader with 5-6 alders denying or approving jobs. They forget just what their job is and play strong arm ward political thugs.
The City needs a stronger Iternal Affairs unit that makes a strike against unerasable, it can bring some much needed accountability into the department.
Still hats off to the few good cops out there,unless being honest is just to look for a buyout from the corrupt system .....
JC (Guest)
The officers on the New Haven Police Dept. are sure not what they used to be. I have a couple of families on my block who think it is perfectly OK to put their children in the street to play basketball. This has become another "acceptable" mode of behavior in our society. As kids we were never allowed to play in the street and traffic was a lot lighter then. When I phoned the police and worked with them to get this blocking of the street addressed and to get these kids out of an unsafe place, they acted like I and my other neighbors were the problem. The New Haven Police do NOTHING to enforce the ordinances. The neighborhood is like a park and has deteriorated because of selfish neighbors and the non-committal police and politicians in New Haven. It is so easy for me to heaven forbid hit one of these kids with my car that it horrifies me. I am selling my house and will be moving very soon now.
I think that the police Lieutenant who let me and my other neighbors down should move to New Haven. I have a nice house I will sell him. Then he too will have the luxury of paying high taxes to live in a "park" in a town that has taken a drastic nose dive in recent years.
Police officers should have to live in the town they work in. Many of these officers are not invested in New Haven or what goes on here and thus have become lax in their enforcement of the law.
joey (Guest)
Another part is that the neighborhood realtor groups are behind and involved with the harrassment. They are rewarded for their thuggery remember.
If you sell your home than it is hip hip hooray for the big landowners that already own a lot and will outbid any joe schmoe.
They want to own the whole block to create blight then build condos and/or a living gated community.
Realtors that prowl your area will first obtain a sales commission from your departure.
One can rent it out and reside in a utopian paradise of the burbs ,then the City will up it's brutality with inspections.
Become your own agent i suppose and watch for straw buyers.
Sorry to hear i'm not the only one who is at the crap end of the citys schtick
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