It appears that Mayor/Public Safety Director Michael P. Summers plans to continue this same charade this year. That is: ensuring Wilbert and Edgewater are patched before anything else.
Let it be known that as of 4/7/17 last week, Wilbert and Edgewater all the way from Nicholson to Parkside had been patched. This was not just a few patches here in there, this was a full patch job, with nice, smooth, packed-down asphalt all over.
This part of Edgewater gets very little traffic when you think about it.
Meanwhile, these streets have been un-touched, even though they have or had medium to large-sized craters in them at the time that Edgewater was patched:
Lincoln near Garfield & Delaware
Riverside south of Hilliard
Atkins south of Hilliard
Warren south of the railroad tracks
Victoria south of Hilliard
Newman south of Detroit
Lakewood Ave.
Athens near Lakeland
Quail south of Madison
Franklin near Newman
Clarence north of Detroit
The list then goes on. With the exception of a few, I am pretty sure most of the above streets get much more traffic than this section of Edgewater and Wilbert.
Does anyone really believe for a minute that Edgewater was just patched before any other street two years in a row by chance? I sure don't. My belief is that the mayor or one of his friends called and screamed. If I call and scream, will my street get patched right away? Barring the resident being a mayor friend, if a resident of Newman, Waterbury, or Brown calls and screams, will their street get patched?
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Ms. Marx, where do you stand on the mayor and friends obviously getting special treatment in regards to pothole patching?
Mr. Nowlin, where do you stand on the issue?
On a final note, I will add that if your vehicle or yourself are damaged by a pothole: take the following steps:
1. Take photos of the pothole and damage immediately.
2. Make a public records request to City Hall for pothole complaints in the area of your incident (most potholes have been reported to City Hall)
3. If the pothole that caused the damaged was reported, call City Hall and ask for a damage claim form.
4. Fill out the damage claim form, including the photos and the pothole reports, and send the form to City Hall.
5. If City Hall denies your claim, you can take them to civil court.
If the mayor and his friends want to be selfish, as it appears, that is fine, but don't make the rest of Lakewood suffer.
