The Community of Salem

Open Issues: 155 • Closed Issues: 1,886 • Acknowledged Issues: 101
Watching issues created after: 2019-04-27

Our community needs to do the best to support the city of Salem and help them navigate any problems in need of fixing. Time For Change! let's help our city navigate issues that need to be fixed.

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  • 6 Cottage St Salem MA 01970, United States - City of Salem
    New owners turning a single family home in an R1 residential neighborhood into an illegal 3 family They have added 2 additional kitchens Construction going on all hours of night They had a compressor and table saw running at 3 Am last weekend They have numerous contractors coming from NY every weekend No permits with plumbing electrical etc going on This is not acceptable and this is not a multi family zoned area This is not simply someone trying to sneak an in-law in the basement It looks like they are building a rooming house At least 5 additional bedrooms have been added
  • 44–50 Ocean Ave Salem MA 01970, United States - City of Salem
    Traffic signal not working for days now
  • Wilson St Salem, MA, 01970, USA - City of Salem
    So many people are upset, and I agree, with the Wilson Street bike lane. What no one has done is to present a solution aside from abandoning the entire project.
    My solution, take away the poles and add a rumble strip, EXACTLY AS YOU DID ON FORT AVENUE WHICH WORKS INCREDIBLY WELL, without giving drivers the sense of being squeezed in together. This solves the emergency vehicle needing to pass, the snowplows ripping or damaging the poles, while still providing the driver with a warning system that they are off the road.
    And yes, just today I almost got sideswiped by a landscapers truck and trailer crossing the double line into my lane. Scary...
  • 10-14 Old Rd Salem, MA, 01970, USA - City of Salem
  • Lafayette St @ Ocean Ave Salem, MA 01970, USA - City of Salem
    Sign knocked down. Remaining metal sticking out of pavement to stab someone.
  • Cottage St & Greenway Rd Salem, MA, 01970, USA - City of Salem
    This is the third request sent to please put a traffic officer here to prevent people coming into the neighborhood to cut through the Wilson/highland light. There is signage in the neighborhood and with all the traffic passing through it is making it difficult and dangerous for people in this neighborhood to exit onto highland, particularly when turning left off greenway. Please put police on greenway to enforce signage especially between the hours of 7-8:30. I’ve yet to see anyone come and enforce this despite numerous request. The construction on highland only exacerbates this issue.
  • Sidewalk Repair Acknowledged
    10 Meadow St Salem MA 01970, United States - City of Salem
    I am requesting a sidewalk repair of the area in front of my apartment at 10 Meadow street.
    I have been living here since 2009 with my disabled daughter. She uses a wheelchair for transport, and because of the severity of the cracks in the sidewalk, I am physically unable to get her wheelchair over this area, as well as 2 large cracks closer to our driveway. I also have to walk out into the street to go past the area in front of next door #12, as the roots of the tree have raised the concrete up and cracked there as well. This is leaving me with no choice but to enter the unsafe street. I can not walk left or right to get up or down my street.
  • Jefferson Ave & Wilson St Salem, Massachusetts, 01970 - City of Salem
    Crossing this street is a hazard. Again today I hit the walk light. Waited. Tried to cross and the cars completely ignored the red and yellow signal. I am done with this! I have to walk to get to the store I don't want to get killed because the city won't get control of this. We need a constant police car in the area and more then walk lights actual traffic lights with cameras seriously. And for those whom are against it they are the ones.speeding and not stopping day and night not caring if they kill anyone. Salem needs to care for it's regular citizens also not just the tourists.
  • Lafayette St @ Ocean Ave Salem, MA 01970, USA - City of Salem
    walk light is not working again. either the button doesn't cause it to change at all or it changes for about 5 seconds and then changes back
  • 6 Cottage Street Salem, MA, 01970, USA - City of Salem
    City investigated an illegal apartment 4 months ago. Owner was told they could not rent it . As of 1-23 it appears they have a person living in the apartment. House is zoned R1. I have reached out to the building inspector and ward councilor and am waiting for a response. I would appreciate a response as to what the city intends to do. Thanks
  • Sidewalk Repair Acknowledged
    54–60 Jefferson Ave Salem MA 01970, United States - City of Salem
    I'd call this sidewalk to repair but there's hardly any sidewalk left to repair Garbage everywhere, blocked by overgrowth, old cones forgotten It's the whole block too down to the hospital parking lot cracked and blocked and covered in garbage A real mess
  • Willson St Salem, MA, 01970, USA - City of Salem
    With all the traffic backing up on Willson St for Covid testing, wouldn't it be a good idea to remove the bike barriers and allow all the additional cars to line up in that lane? Right now, once the lot is full, cars have no place to go. Creating an additional lane would help the traffic flow.