From the NY Post:The mayor turned up with Staten Island Borough President Jim Molinaro and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan to heave a few shovels full of asphalt into a four-inch crater on Slater Boulevard in the Dongan Hills section of Staten Island.
After a few photos and a few more accolades, that normally would have been that -- except for the presence of Tobia Barbato, 72, a retired butcher who lives on the street.
He complained to reporters that his block hadn't been repaved in 42 years, and desperately needed a total overhaul. Besides, Barbato said, the very same pothole had just been filled.
"Pothole filling is nothing," he said. "They filled it in two weeks ago, and after two weeks the same thing again."
City officials insisted that couldn't be the case because their records show no crews visited the site. But Barbato's account was backed up by a neighbor.
"I saw it," said Paul DeFresco, pointing to his eyes. "It lasted about a week, then all the stones jumped out of the whole thing because it wasn't filled too well."
The story ended happily, however.
After reeling off statistics spotlighting the productivity of pothole crews -- 15,000 filled since Saturday -- Bloomberg noted that the city paves far fewer streets than it used to because of budgetary concerns.
Sadik-Khan whispered to the mayor that Slater Boulevard would be repaved this year.
"Why?" he asked.
"It's on the schedule for repair," she said.
Well, now it is, anyway.
7 comments:
Hey...that's Mayor Bum-turd's golden crap nuggets they've filled that hole with...the same kind that Mike's been shoveling into our mouths for 2 terms.
Somebody should whisper to him too that he's recieving an F for managing a city and hopefully different groups will get together and call for his impeachment in public often enough and write about in great detail.
See how the MTA hearings gathered attention the last few days. People mentioned bloombergs name at those meetings and it was heard. His ad's from the "election" on the MTA are total PR lies of course.
Somebody should whisper to him too that he's recieving an F for managing a city and hopefully different groups will get together and call for his impeachment in public often enough and write about in great detail.
See how the MTA hearings gathered attention the last few days. People mentioned bloombergs name at those meetings and it was heard. His ad's from the "election" on the MTA are total PR lies of course.
Ja, BloomKhan, shofels it, uf korse. Hahhr, Hahhr. Vere? In der hole uf der pot? Hahhr, hahrr.
DOT doesn't know how to fill a pothole.....lazy idiots!
Yeah like they paved my street a couple years ago only to have big potholes show up only 1 year later. Filled them and they came apart 6 mos later. Then they came and stripped this section down completely again and repaved it. Guess what? It's happening again! I hate shoddy work!!!!
Can't he wear jeans and workboots to make the photo op look real? Nice dress Sadik-Khan, every DOT worker must be cringing!
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