Just saw a Tufts Construction Truck towing a large trailer turn onto Autumn from Winter, then turn right onto Kenmore heading the wrong way toward Main. The city needs to address this. It's dangerous and yet so easily avoidable.

Stop it

Yes, you should. It's hard to know for sure that it's the same person when someone posts anonymously. But there are themes that are common to numerous anonymous messages on this site that would suggest that many are coming from one person. None of them make any substantive comment of any value and instead merely demean the concern raised and frequently personally insult the reporter. Much of the language and phrasing is common as well. Numerous people have been subjected to it. As I have said before, even as you hide in anonymity behind a keyboard, it reflects far more on you than on me, and only helps to underscore the problem that we have in this city posed by those who will reflexively resist progress and the creation of a better and safer community. Our city government is failing its residents. I'm far from the only person who feels that way. I will continue to advocate for a more responsive, representative, and effective government. And when I see something blatantly unsafe going on in my community, I will report it.

I live where this work is and the construction has benefited my home and family. Please stop using the site as a way to attack the city. There isn’t any issue from the construction and you’re obviously just making trouble. Thanks to the water department for their work in this terrible heat and for making a difference in our neighborhood. Perhaps those complaining could spend some time on cleaning their own property which is a mess

No problem

Thanks for fixing this request!

I also live here (I doubt you actually do). And I very much support the work getting done. The city ignored the lead situation for far too long. The work was long overdue. And I agree with you that the workers worked very hard and deserve credit for their efforts. But this has nothing to do with the work or the efforts of the water department -- or whether this benefited you. This is about traffic planning and enforcement, and public safety. There is no way that anyone can objectively say that the situation was handled in a sensible manner. Even the workers and the engineer at the sites on Main were frustrated by the lack of a detail and by the city's explanation that there were no officers available because of the NG lockout. They finally got a detail there. But on Autumn, especially at the end near Winter, the situation has been both chaotic and dangerous. During all of this I have observed a collision at the corner of Autumn and Winter while traffic was rerouted. I have seen multiple vehicles speed past the stopped traffic on Autumn on the left as if it is a one way. I saw one such driver nearly cause a head on collision when he got to the intersection with Winter. And yesterday, one vehicle after another turned right and headed up Kenmore the wrong way as direct result of the poorly placed cones and lack of signs to instruct drivers. All of that is on top of the already ever worsening situation on Autumn and the surrounding streets as cars come flying through the neighborhood to cut the corner at Main and Winter. Yet despite living here for nearly 20 years, I have yet to observe a single traffic stop or a single officer engaged in traffic enforcement in this neighborhood -- ever. That is despite multiple promises to residents from MPD to provide some enforcement. If you think that is acceptable, that's your business. If you think it's just fine that our police department writes between 1/4 and 1/2 of the number of citations of all of our comparably sized neighboring municipalities, while cars come tearing down these streets at 40+ not entirely undeterred by the lack of enforcement, that's fine as well. But I live here too. I have a family. And I don't think is acceptable at all. This city desperately needs a traffic planner to avoid exactly the sort of chaos we've being dealing with. That is hardly a controversial position. In fact, there is broad support for out even among members of city government. The city also needs to step up traffic enforcement city wide. Again, this is nothing controversial and is a position shared by city councillors and even by the city's own auditors (see the city's 2016 management letter). Again, if you don't care to sorry those things, that's fine. I do.

As for my house, it's actually as well maintained as any property on the entire street (new siding, new fence, new railings, landscaped, etc.), which is saying something because I think almost all of my neighbors do a great job maintaining their properties. It's not number 18 BTW. I input that as the location of the problem. Sorry. But your ad hominem insult kind of missed the mark there.

Such long winded nonsense. Why the disdain for the city you live in?

I have no disdain for the city or its residents. Just the opposite, in fact. I most certainly do have disdain for those city officials who collect their salaries and fail to meet their responsibilities to the taxpayers. The city and its residents deserve better. That is the opposite of disdain.

What is clear is that you don't want anything better for the city or its residents. You want to maintain the status quo and to continue business as usual. What has that gotten us other than one scandal after another? I can't know given your anonymity, but perhaps you are one of the relatively small group profiting from it, at the expense of everyone else. Refusing even to admit and address the problems is true disdain for the city and everyone who lives in it.

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I'm shame of you, Anonymous. You are abusing anonymity on this site. Anonymity is mean for privacy, not for one's irresponsibly.

Well said Love, so well put.