Coming Soon to A Town or City Near You!

The coincidence of the never-ending shenanigans and embarrassing dysfunction going on in the adjacent town that we here in Hudson happen to share a zip code with is not lost on HUDseen. 

Sure, This Makes All The Sense In The World! Sure, This Is Good For Hudson! Sure, There's No Dysfunction At City Hall Or AT HPD To Be Concerned With!

If there are two things we can count on here in Hudson, it's that parking is a mess and City Hall can't pay attention to anything.  Consider the following as (further) evidence of these two seemingly intractable problems. 

Priorities Inside City Hall (And Out Front)!

New $700 pedestrian crosswalk at 7th & Columbia?  Check!  Refreshed $600 crosswalk across Front Street at the train station that, according to Rob Perry, was originally installed a few years ago by Amtrak? Check!  Two metered parking spaces removed with bright yellow paint to make the intersections at each end of Park Place safer for pedestrians?  Check!  Check!  (Done on Monday.)

Forsaken City

It was about 6 weeks ago that I first noticed that the public trash can in the public park of the 300 block of State Street was no longer upright.  Contrary to what I assumed, it turns out that the can wasn't even secured to the ground that whole time.

Say Hello To Your New $700 Pedestrian Crosswalk. You Paid For It, Now Go Walk It! That Is, If You Dare! *

Sometime this past week, DPW installed fourteen and a half white decal lines at 7th & Columbia to create a long crosswalk where one never existed.  Ain't it pretty?  If we're lucky, the lines that take the most beating will last all of two, maybe three, years.  Each line (the one at the far curb is just a half) measures 18 inches by 6 feet, and they are all melted into the pavement with a propane gas heat gun.  The cost of each line, including installation labor, gas, and whatever else is necessary (like four DPW pickup trucks idling nearby), is about $50, though it very possibly could be $60 or more.  We'll stick with $50 until further notice.  

Look What The Demolished 309 Union Revealed!

If the city's speed limit was "20 miles" 100 years ago, why shouldn't it be the same now?  Who decided that 20 miles per hour was too slow and that the limit had to be increased to 30 (and recently dropped to 25)?

Would It Kill You, Rob and Frank?

I took the lead picture on Wednesday, March 11th of this year, a few days or weeks after DPW replaced a portion of the wood bench that is popular with a certain clientele of the 7th Street Park.  (By the way, neither Michael Madison nor evidence of his presence have been spotted there this year.)