Such Classiness! Such Taste! Such Respect! Such Attention To Detail! Such Governance! This New Mayor Of Ours Is Really Killin' It, Isn't He?

 

Rather than replacing the recently broken $19 one-sided plastic scannable paid parking sign in front of Lightforms on Columbia Street with another one (or, as has been done elsewhere recently, with a new $29 two-sided sign), the damaged portion at the bottom was cut off, removing the blank space below the text, and the sign was replaced.  This approach to "replacing" broken $19 signs (that don't go missing!) -- obviously at the hands of a slob at DPW and likely okayed by Captain Parking David Miller, perhaps a slob himself -- allows the bracket secured to the old meter pole to obscure text at the bottom of the shortened sign. Add shim made from a ruler, some on the front which obscure additional important information on the sign, and voila, you've got several plastic signs along a sidewalk that might as well have the words WE DON'T CARE written on them with magic marker!  Along with FU!  (The sign that went missing in front of the Hereafter was replaced with a $29 two-sided sign!)

It's all so pathetic!  These pictures were taken two days ago in Columbia Street's 700 block near the traffic triangle that Mayor Joe Ferris wants to improve (or at least that's what I overheard him say at a local bar just prior to his election).   

Doesn't that shim essentially say Fuck Off, Jerk?
Can't you hear Rob Perry saying that?  This is the 
new two-sided sign in front of the Hereafter.

HPD Captain David Miller must have approved this.
If he didn't, there's even more to be concerned with,
isn't there? 

Broken city?  

The word MALIGNANCY comes to mind.  As if City Hall wants Hudson to be broken.  That can't be true, can it?  HPD, DPW and the Mayor's Office are on our side, aren't they?  They're looking out for us, aren't they?

Another parking sign "REPAIRED"! If text is
 obscured, the sign has been "repaired," not replaced!

Two scannable parking signs were recently installed on the city-owned fiberglass streetlamp pole on 6th street next to the DMV entrance.  The lovely hole at the base of that pole has been ignored by Rob Perry for at least two years, allowing damaging snow, salt, dog pee and rain to get inside and, of course, beckoning a child's hand or two to grab a few colorful live electric wires that anyone can see and easily touch.  The sticker above the hole was put there by National Grid early last year or late in 2024.  While the hole was there, though a bit smaller than it is now!  It reads, "Lighting maintained by City of Hudson."  Thanks, Grid!  Instead of telling (reminding?) Rob Perry of his department's responsibilities when the lights atop the city-owned poles were no longer Grid's responsibility, they paid for dozens of stickers and paid someone to secure them to the bases of all of our downtown (non-wood) streetlamp poles that DPW has never not been responsible for.  Lot of good those stickers did us (and Rob Perry), ay?

You gotta wonder how often our new mayor has walked past this streetlamp pole in the past few months and not noticed the gaping hole at its base.  How about over the past two years?  The base of the streetlamp pole, inches from the curb, is badly and conspicuously broken, isn't it?  How much more broken will Rob Perry and Mayor Ferris (are they both careless slobs?) allow the base of the heavy pole to become before the entire lamp pole falls over and lands on someone's head, like the mayor walking to work or a child walking hand in hand with their mother?  How much more broken will the city become before it falls over and the blame game begins?

Let's face it, these are all huge red flags indicating that something is wrong at City Hall.  Really wrong and damaging.  Like a malignant tumor that can't be excised!