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How to Use the Blog, #1
One way I envisioned the blog helping people help the community is to have blog entries serve as prompts, leading to blog readers taking action based on the prompt in the entry.
A means to action that requires little effort.
In other words, you could be active and effective in your community without leaving your chair, if you read the blog and follow the prompts.
For instance I posted an entry in February about the pothole situation. No one responded except Roy.
That was a prompt, and if blog readers had responded to that prompt we might have had all our potholes in Mt. Hope fixed by now.
I should have explained this concept at the outset of the blog, and I meant to include it in the FAQ, but there are only so many hours in the day. Sorry.
Anyway, we can try it again, we still have the potholes, and we can begin by listing potholes and the actions we took in the comments box to this post.
Identify a pothole's exact location, call it in, log in the information in the comments box of this entry. Then we monitor the data and the progress of our efforts by the ongoing comments to this entry. Fun. Fun. Fun.
Link to DPW: DPW phone to report potholes 467-7950
Thanks. Here is the original February 26th, Entry.
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Name That Pothole! Fix 'em!
Tired of your car incurring damage from potholes the City of Providence has failed to fix in a timely manner? So is City Council President John J. Lombardi, and he has asked the Department of Public Works (DPW) to deal with the “plague of potholes” as he is quoted in ProJo’s Feb. 23rd , Metro Edition.
Click on our Media Websites for ProJo.com or Government Website. for the City of Providence and the DPW.
Let’s list the all the worse potholes in Mt. Hope and get the DPW to fix them before anymore of our front end tie-rods and tires are damaged.
Click on the comments tab below this entry, or use the entry box on the right side of the Mt. Hope Blog/Forum to create a new entry, and we will compile a list of potholes needing the city’s attention.
You can also contact the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services by clicking the link on our Home/Navigation page.
Or you can e-mail or call Ward 3 City Councilor Kevin Jackson: click on Vital City Links then click on Kevin Jackson.
John Twomey
Posted at May 27, 2005 11:40 AM
I just called in two potholes to the DPW number, 5/27/05: the big one on Cypress, across from the KFC parking lot, and the one at the bottom of my street, right at the corner of Locust and Knowles, that tears up my front-end each time I turn right off of my street.
They took down the info and put them on the list to be fixed. The one on Cypress may be linked to some construction or repair of piping.
Posted by: John at May 27, 2005 12:52 PM