Over Two Years Later, That Stop Line On Paddock Place Continues To Reveal Our DPW Superintendent For Who He Really Is!

7 months after DPW Head Honcho, Rob Perry, clearly fed disinformation (lied!) to Vicky Daskoulidi and the entire common council as he spoke at a council meeting regarding his plans to remove a stop line on Paddock Place -- then did his best to remove the line -- it is now back to 100 percent visibility in the street and once again being ignored by all motorists approaching it.  Black, white, what does it matter -- it's not a stop line if there isn't any stop sign to read, is it?   

Progress in Hudson, it's really, truly happening!  You just have to get out there and find it!

Now what will our DPW Superintendent's voice on Zoom say to help everyone, including Vicky, understand what is going on in the street over by the tennis courts in the 5th ward near the school?  Will our $117,000 DPW Superintendent repeat the same disinformation he offered in July to Vicky, her comrades and the public about the stop line, or will he create a fresh batch of falsehoods to come spewing out of his mouth like vomit?  Or will he say and do nothing with the hope that no one notices that his unwanted stop line has returned to its former bright whiteness and utter uselessness, confusing drivers who approach it?  Stay tuned, folks, it's only going to get stupider!  We all know that clowns never die!

Here is where HUDseen left off most recently in this most embarrassing of unnecessary sagas, as told in an article from September:

At last July's council meeting, in response to a question from Daskaloudi, Perry said this about removing the stop line with no stop sign at its side:  "We're just going to put the crosswalk over top of it.  You won't notice it.  It'll blend in."  Except that this never happened and, actually, anyone with vision could still "notice" (and SEE) the line after the crosswalk was installed.  After his failure, Perry never bothered to mention to Vicky or the council that things didn't happen as he had said they would.  But he had a plan B up his sleeve, as all miracle workers do.

Since Mr. Perry's new crosswalk didn't line up anywhere near the unwelcome stop line, Perry's solution to obscure the annoying white decal we paid at least $126 for two years ago was to just paint it black.  Here's what that simple but unexplained backup effort looked like then, sometime in August, I believe.  (Behold the verdancy, too!)

Problem solved.... for now!  (Perry never
mentioned that this was his solution to the problem
of the white stop line that never should have
been installed in the first place.)

Fast forward several months and here's what that once-white-then-blackened stop line looks like today.  Unobscured!  Freed! Revealed and back in action!  Rob's dream a reality!

Without a stop sign, can this poor, lonely
unwanted white line be called or
considered a stop line anymore?

How many times in the coming years will we pay DPW to paint that white stop line black?  Of course, because the black paint protects the white line, when it inevitably fades away within a few months we once again have a still-fresh white stop line that we paid at least $126 for in 2023 in the hopes of making the intersection safer for schoolchildren and drivers.  Even Rob Perry, taking home over $117,000 a year, can't make that damn line disappear, try as he may. 

Maybe this year Rob will promise Vicky that he will hire a sandblasting company to come remove the line once and for all, no "blending in" or black paint being needed.  Of course, the entire council will nod their heads (or just continue to nod off) and none of them will think to ask Perry why this needs to be done and how much it will cost the city to hire a sandblaster to remove a heavy-duty white decal that cost us more than $126 in April of 2023 to install in the street.  Instead, they will all thank our Great Communicator Whatever on Zoom for his hard work and dedication to Hudson while Tom Depietro will praise Perry as a local hero and bow to him, maybe even present him with a medal of honor.

Today, this car did not stop before turning right.  Do 
you think the driver considered stopping at the line
located ahead of the crosswalk?

Or maybe Perry won't tell anyone he's hiring a sandblasting company to remove the 12-foot stop line he can't remove on his own.  Rather, he will just make the arrangements, get it done, and hope no one asks him a pesky question or two about why he had to hire a company to remove a 12-foot, $126 white stop line decal on Paddock Place and how much it cost us to finally get the line removed after two years.  He certainly doesn't want to be asked something along these lines: 

"Rob, how much time, money and effort have you wasted on this one god damn stop line and that stop sign you installed and then removed summarily and without explanation?  And have you learned anything from your ridiculous and embarrassing mistakes?  Where else are you screwing up but taking no responsibility for your mistakes and not telling anyone about them?  Last question:  Are you okay?"  

No, don't count on any council members or Tom Depietro bothering Perry with questions about his bizarre, bumbling and wasteful ways of getting things done.  It just ain't gonna happen, not with the useless council we have now.

If you want to read any of the previous six (six!!!!) articles about the Paddock Place stop sign/line debacle, just type Paddock in the search bar above, hit search and all the articles should show up.  The first article about this embarrassing display of civic dysfunction was published on February 16, 2023, just over two years ago. Two fucking years and Perry still can't get it right.  It's beyond unbelievable.  It's frightening.