You CAN fight City Hall!

Tecumseh Road West is a road I drive twice daily. Months and months ago, they did construction on the part just after the curve leading to two sets of railway tracks, 4 lanes of traffic, parking on both sides of the street and lanes that swerve back and forth, back and forth. Now... once it was re-paved they painted tiny white dots all up and down. Sometimes they came back and painted more tiny white dots. No yellow ones though. If it was dark or raining, or worst case scenario... dark AND raining you were screwed. I almost lost my new front fender more than once by almost being side swiped!

Tecumseh Road is the second busiest East/West road after the expressway in Windsor. So what does Traffic & Engineering do? Leaves it like that for weeks and weeks. I first called the Maintenance Department a few weeks ago. Spoke to a lovely woman who told me that there was work to do at one intersection so they didn't want to paint and then have to do it again. ONE intersection... I think there are about 5 in the span with no lines! (Did I mention the two sets of train tracks?) I called again, a couple of weeks ago and spoke to a very nice man who told me it should be done soon. I waited...

Last Wednesday I tossed down the gauntlet! I wrote and put The City of Windsor on official notice that this posed a hazard! Well... the phone rang about 1/2 hour after I faxed it. The gentleman who received it was walking it to the proper person in Traffic and Engineering. Phone rang again about an hour later. It was the proper guy. He tried to explain why they were waiting... blah blah blah... I told him that my letter served as being put on notice of a hazard and they could be held responsible for any accident ... more blah blah blah... finally I just said, "cut to the chase, when are you painting the lines?" He replied, "likely tomorrow." Well;

Driving home that day, at 4:45pm what's happening on Tecumseh Rd. W.? Painters and machines; that's what! It was done by Friday.

I got to work Friday at about 10:00am and Dave came up to me, chuckling... "oh, here's a message for you. Robert, from the City called. He told me to tell you that the lines are done on Tecumseh Road."

Now Michelle wants me to get them to re-pave College Avenue as it's shaking her teeth loose every day when she drives it to go to the University!

Any other requests out there? I'm making a list! hehe