Signs? What Signs? And What Else Is HE "Forgetting"?

Fifty-four weeks ago, on August 3rd, 2024, two cars met at the intersection of 4th & Columbia after the driver on 4th Street ran the red light. (I overheard the driver say that he "didn't see the red light.")  The car with the green light, traveling east on Columbia (it's a good thing it wasn't a tractor trailer ON THE TRUCK ROUTE), careened over the curb near Helsinki, knocked over sign pole with 3 signs on it, narrowly missed a tree, then wound up back in the street.  That car was likely also totaled, with its axle being bent by the impact with the curb.  DPW removed the signs right away and, a month or two later, installed a white stop line for 4th Street traffic at an intersection with its fair share of collisions.  (Don't you love how it took another crash there to get a stop line installed!  Thank goodness for the crash!)

Over one year later, DPW still has not replaced the three signs that were run over and eventually taken to the DPW garage (and possibly put in the scrap metal bin).  Apparently, at least one person at DPW felt that none of the three signs on that pole were needed to begin with.  And while the signs didn't make the street any safer, you still have to wonder:  If Rob Perry is able to forget about, or is uninterested in, replacing a street sign or three that are knocked over, what the hell else is he "forgetting" about or uninterested in doing?   

Screenshot of Google maps from 2023.

Apparently, at least in Rob Perry's mind, all three of
the signs on the ground were unnecessary to begin with,
and the careening car did him a favor.
(August 3rd, 2024)

The cone stuck around for a few months

One year after the signs were knocked to the 
ground and DPW took them away

Could Rob Perry also be forgetting to explain to the council why two large portions of the entrance to the city on South 3rd Street have been a crumbling mess for months because of a faulty subbase that he has been aware of for years, and that the patch jobs DPW perform there are not actually solving the underlying issue, just covering it up temporarily? Why does he continue to forget to tell the council that at some point DPW will have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to fix the serious problem that is two feet below South 3rd just 8 years after Colarusso repaved the street?  Is he "forgetting" to mention all of this because of how awkward it would be for him to do so?

Is Rob Perry forgetting to take care of the issue 
that is causing 3rd street to crumble?  Or is he 
just not interested in dealing with it?

This was patched late last year or early this year.
It was a waste of time and money as the mess quickly
 returned.  Rob Perry is not dealing with the problem,
just the effects of the problem.  This is not the way things are 
done in the real world.

Patched a month or two ago, even though the problem
lies well below the surface of the street.  It will soon begin 
to fail, just like the other one to the north failed.

Prior to DPW's recent patch near Union. 

A few weeks ago, no more than two seconds after I took the picture of the sidewalk with the missing signs at 4th & Columbia, I heard the close honking of a horn.  I looked up to see a white van turning onto 4th Street headed in the wrong direction.  It was a car waiting at the red light on Columbia whose horn had blown, trying to alert the driver of the van of the dangerous mistake they were making.  The honking was in vain.  Without any 4th Street traffic in its way - and with parked cars on both sides of the street facing his way -- the driver made it to Prison Alley and immediately turned right to head west, the opposite direction it had been traveling on Columbia.  It was clear to me from the driver's lack of hesitation that he was not lost.  He made no mistake; he knew exactly where he wanted to go, how he was going to get there, and what he had just gotten away with.  This was not the first time I've seen someone duck into an alley after intentionally driving the wrong way for a half block on a one-way street.  It probably happens more often than anyone can imagine.

There is one small ONE WAY sign at 4th & Columbia.  If that sign were to get knocked over, do you think it's possible that Rob Perry would "forget" to replace it? 

Turning into the alley, a continuation 
of the short cut.