Is Our Fair City Headed In The Proper Direction?

In July of 2020, over 6 years ago, two truck route signs each were installed above the intersections of 3rd & Columbia and State/Columbia & Green.  The former were meant to prevent trucks and tractor trailers headed north on 3rd approaching the turn on Columbia from continuing north past Columbia toward and onto State Street. The latter were meant to prevent trucks and tractor trailers headed south on Green Street from turning off of the truck route onto State (to then head all the way to 3rd to turn south there).  At council meetings and via emails for months before those four signs appeared, I made a big stink about the issue of errant trucks and tractor trailers on State Street, reminding the city what they were ignoring and not doing properly or at all.  

How Are Things Over At The Pocketbook Business Complex? Great! If You Can Get There!

The two "temporary" (there's that word again!) A-frame signs that we've been so fortunate to have grace the northwest corner of 6th & Warren 24/7 for the past several months are associated with two businesses at the complex three blocks to the north. Yesterday's wind was not nice to those signs, even the still-standing metal one that weighs at least 40 pounds. Upright or not, the signs are a clear code violation.

Don't Worry, It Was Just A TEMPORARY Week Without The Parking Bureau! (Is The City Clerk's Office Next? How About The Police Department?)

 

According to the automated email response I got ten days ago from the Hudson Parking Bureau (with no personal name associated with it), today should be the day that the "temporary" closure of the Hudson Police Department's new Parking Bureau ends. (They're working out the kinks!) The apparently not-so-important bureau was closed all 5 days last week, plus the previous Friday, with the vacation possibly beginning the day before, on Thursday the 17th.  (Someone was there on Wednesday the 16th.)  The sign that has been on the window of the bureau's office for the past 10 or 11 days does not give any indication as to why the offices was closed or when it might reopen.  Who the heck is in charge over there?  Our four police detectives?

Who Is More Incompetent, City Hall or Galvan? Or Is It A Tie?

It happened within 6 or 7 weeks of Galvan's contractor creating the new sidewalks surrounding their hotel project at 4th & Warren and letting us little people walk on them.  It happened within 25 days of HUDseen writing about the obscenely dangerous situation at the northern end of our new sidewalk on 4th Street.  And it happened within 3 days of an email from me to mayor Ferris asking why the end of that sidewalk was still such a dangerous obscenity available for anyone to fall off of after so many weeks.  "It" is the dumbest shit imaginable.  (If I were to print Ferris' email reply to me, you might think I had made it up.  Maybe another day if I have time.)

It's Official! We Have A Parking Captain! But "How The Heck Were We Supposed To Know?"

If, like me, you've been wondering who is supervising the city's ambitious new paid parking system since HPD flipped the switch early this year, there's no need to wonder anymore.  Just as I assumed all along, the person who we are all counting on to make the parking system a smashing long-term success is the second-in-command at HPD, Captain David Miller, the same fella I've been somewhat facetiously referring to lately as Parking Captain (or PC) Miller.  I'm afraid it's not a joke anymore. But, really, in the grand scheme, it is a joke. It's got to be!

The 7-Inch Sidewalk Cliff Not Tall Enough For The Public Works Board!

 

Tiff, Gary, and the gang at the PWB require a 9-inch cliff minimum before they act. 

Can't You See A Child Slamming Their Forehead or Eyeball Into This Thing?

Of course you can!  And then what?  The parents sue the City of Hudson and Galvan?  Sure, why not!