Who’s responsible? Shaune MacKinlay, City Hall, 490-4000.
Remarks: People are reporting lots of the “fix me” white painted cracks, some of which have been this way for months. But this is actually a good news story, says MacKinlay, the city’s PR person. Recently the city has acquired some new machinery and so has stepped up the crack repair schedule, which includes a lot of inspectors driving around looking for cracks to fix. Four hundred slabs have been fixed, and 2,000 more are scheduled, says MacKinlay.
This article appears in Jul 1-7, 2010.
So the city has new machinery? This picture was posted on July 1. It is almost October and the North End is still covered with white-painted sidewalk cracks. Why can’t we get new sidewalks instead of just scraping down the cracks?