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Several nearby streets have been repaved in the last few years, but not Thomas St, Ashfield and Anawan. Dangerous situation as bits of crumbled asphalt go flying when cars go over them.

Thomas Circle needs to be repaved as well. Thomas Street is so bad my wife and I will not push our baby in her stroller over it.

It would be just fabulous to not have to clean up 200lbs of asphalt every year after the plows are done plowing/dumping it on my corner lot. Every year you patch the same holes you patched the year before. Every year those patches end up all over the street and our yards. You have by now spent more money patching, then to just repave it.

Well put, Raymond!

I agree 100% with Raymond. I'm on corner lot and have to clear the asphalt from the sewer. The patch work does not last long it will be cheaper to repave street.

Thanks Stephen, Raymond, Mark, and the anonymous commentor for leaving comments and (I assume) voting.

Someone else posted about Thomas Street over the weekend and Marcy posted the following comment:

"Please keep in mind that Road Reconstruction/repaving request go to your ward councilor. The ward councilor for your area is Anne Beauregard (Ward 5) and her contact number is 1(774)-297-4939. Thank you."

I spoke with Ms. Beauregard earlier this year and she mentioned working with other councilors on securing funding. Not sure where that stands with other cuts to the city's budget. Either way, if you haven't contacted Councilor Beauregard, please do and please ask others to. Thank you.

I voted and I will also call the ward councilor. Thanks for the information.

Z

Thank you. You're welcome. Please spread the word.

I appreciate the input as well Hudson but I called Councilor Beauregard about this very issue last year and got the run around and as we all can tell nothing came of it. I hope calling this time will have a different result than it did last year..

You're welcome. Maybe if we all continue to reach out, it will make a difference.

I have been living on Thomas Street for 25 years. I have a disabled daughter who would love to ride her three wheel bike but cannot due to the poor condition of the road. Every year after winter the road gets practically like a river bed with stones and deep pothole. It is patched and looks like a quit in the sprig but is unsafe for my daughter to go walking, let alone ride her bike. We are pleading with the city to fix this condition so that my daughter and other residents can be safe while walking on Thomas Street.

I'm sorry to hear that Garth. That's infuriating. I'm going to attempt to contact Councilor Beauregard again today. Hopefully, I'll be able to reach her.

Hello everyone. I've had a few email exchanges Councilor Beauregard since last week. She gave me permission to share she wrote:

"I have been working on this since I spoke with you.  I am working with the city council attorney to try to change the law on streets, I am trying to get a meeting with the state senator and a US senator to get infrastructure funding and also meeting with Old Colony Planning Council which handles infrastructure to find some funding (anywhere) to move this along.  It is very time consuming and to many it probably seems like I am doing nothing.

Meanwhile more than one of your neighbors has contacted me about his concern.  One called me the other day and I have not called him back yet (two days ago) and he posted something on facebook.  A gentleman named Jason Cox.  I will continue to keep you posted and have a brief segment to keep people updated on the local community access where I mentioned about the project with the roads.  I am by no means giving up.

Sorry these things take forever.

If I was not such a pest to these people it would go on for years.  One of the councilors calculated that if he would have to be in office for 200 years to get all the streets in his ward alone done.  This current way is not working and that is why I am trying to change it."

When I asked her what the current law was, she replied:

"I am working on getting a home rule petition for changing our streets (like yours) from private to public.  After that I am working with elected officials to get funding to further this along.  I realize that your see click fix will probably bring people from the DPW to do the "quick fix" I am trying to get this to not only do the quick fix but repair it like it needs to be.  I will continue to pursue this issue believe me."

Closed.