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Sidewalk has been left impassable and in dangerous state. Electric pole support cable blocks access and could cause serious injury to someone if not seen.

It is extremely dangerous. Someone walking or riding a bike could be "clothes-lined". I do not understand why it has not been fixed as well. I was told during construction of the sidewalks that the sidewalk was moved to that side of 50th Ave. N at 19th Street, based on yard/slope conditions that this alternative placement of the sidewalk would be a compliant route to maintain safety for users based on ADA guidelines and within the allocated budget.

Issue should be reported to Duke Energy with pole identification number. This way seems like it's not getting done. Because last I saw the barricade was still there on 10/23/18

The City of St Petersburg installed this sidewalk right through a support wire for the electric pole. They should take ownership and fix the problem. It’s ridiculous this has been going on for so long. You would think in the planning stage this would have been addressed and corrected. Don’t we pay for an engineering department at the city?

Yes but we all know thing's get shoved aside and forgotten as this matter has. Everything is done by email these days. Not trying to argue with you. But I've had a family member complain about street lights being out on his street on this site and the end result here was the same as this situation (nothing got done). Then a call was made to Duke with location and pole ID and within days it was fixed. I think it was done through Dukes website. If you don't reach out to them I will. It's probably a 30 minute job for them.

That’s really not the point. We pay taxes and expect our local government to fulfill their responsibility and not leave a project incomplete. They are well aware the project was not finished properly when they put a barricade up. I would venture to say if this was the neighborhood Mayor Rick Kriseman lived in, the job would have been finished and not left for close to a year with a barricade blocking the sidewalk. Not to mention the safety hazard that someone can be clotheslined by a steel cable.

I understand your point. try and call Best Buy next time you need warranty work done on your car. In a perfect world or city things progress as we expect. Not here we have sewage pipes to worry about. Who cares about public safety.

Sidewalk has been completed. Wire crossing the sidewalk was forwarded to Duke for relocation.

Thank you

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Duke says it is not their pole guy wire is connected to. says it is telecommunications equipment . Come on guys who is responsible?

Our tax dollars hard at work. You would think when the City Engineering department was designing this project they would have identified the obstruction, contacted the proper people and had it moved. Instead, we have a dangerous condition left by the City and no one takes responsibility to fix it.

I bet if this was Mayor Kriseman’s home street, it would have been fixed immediately. What are we looking at 2020 or until someone gets hurt to complete the project?

My Last call was to city svcs specialist. She said she was working with Frontier to resolve issue. That was 2 weeks ago. Channel 8 would love this. Close to a year the sidewalk has been completed.

And the barricades are no longer there that put individuals on notice that there was an obstruction. Lawsuit waiting to happen.

I am surprised by the lack of concern from the City to resolve an unsafe situation they created. The sidewalks were installed because of the safety issue of pedestrians walking on high vehicle volume 50th Ave N. But because of the dangerous steel cable obstructing the sidewalk, you are forced into the street to go around the sidewalk obstruction.

FORWARDED TO DUKE FOR REPAIR

One year since reported on 6/25/2018
Still no action taken.
I called Duke they said it is not Duke property

Typical for how the current Mayor runs our city. The sidewalk was supposed to help keep pedestrians & school age children safe on a proven busy street, but they built the sidewalk between the pole & steel support cable creating a very unsafe condition. Now they just ignore the problem they created and take no action to correct it. Do you think this would have went on this long if it was Mayor Kriseman’s home street?

We have emailed again to the following city officials to help assist with this long time issue. We have also been emailing them since November 2018.

Michael J. Frederick
Arenee F. Smith
Daniel R. Singleton
Darden Rice
Evan Mory
Paul M. Booth

Hello ALL! It looks like after that last email, the 'guy wire' aka the wire that ran across the sidewalk has now been removed by DUKE and the side walk is now free from obstructions!

Unbelievable. Very thankful, but yet still wondering why this took a year and a half to resolve.