Municipal malfunction aka “On Patrol” uses ahme to get ‘da gubbmint’ to fix the city. I now call on the Website Nazi to round up his huge team of website developers to fix the “Still Broken” section of On Patrol! I bitched about this once upon a time, and it’s still broken. It’s like ten thousand spoons, and all I need is a knife! In case there is some trouble locating said “On Patrol” delinquents;
Published December 13, 2007.
Status: Broken
What’s Wrong?: When we said we wanted a public outdoor skating rink, we didn’t mean on the sidewalks of Bloomfield Street.
Published November 29, 2007.
Status: Broken
What’s Wrong?: That’s not a mirage—there’s a river running through the West End Mall parking lot.
Published November 01, 2007.
Status: Broken
What’s Wrong?: If you’ll look to the fountain near the Public Gardens’ new entrance on Spring Garden, you’ll see the wonder and majesty of flowing water. Here it comes. Like a geyser of majesty, folks…about to gush forth…very, very soon…uh…hmm. What the hell?
Published October 11, 2007.
Status: Broken
What’s Wrong?: This sign on Queen Street near Spring Garden is all like, “I’m gonna lie on the ground, dude,”
Published June 21, 2007.
Status: Broken
What’s Wrong?: What’s wrong: This bicycle has been locked up near Lord Dalhousie Drive since last fall.
This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2008.
Did you read the part on top? I mean this part:On Patrol hereby call on residents of Halifax (the greater municipality and environs) to help fix our city. If something in your neighbourhood is broken or if one of our problems has been fixed, report to Patrol Superintendent LaPortno at 422-6278 ext 502 or email: onpatrol@thecoast.ca.Check back to follow up past problems.Adding, that I just checked and the email link was killed a couple of weeks ago. But up until then it was fine, and no one was sending emails about it. It’ll be fixed tomorrow. If we had someone checking up on all the On Patrols, they’d be doing nothing else. We appreciate you notifying the correct people, as instructed. Thanx.
Hey tim, why dont we have city meetings on how to deal with these things. The people should prioritize this shit. They will get addressed….. in 2012
Well, believe it or not, for as much grief as I give the city (politicians and staff), I find that of the cities I’ve worked in/lived in, Halifax actually is better than most when it comes to fixing things– once they’ve been pointed out to them. Often, people bitch about things, but don’t actually point them out to the right people.(I’ll avoid talking here about potholes, because 1) Halifax and Nova Scotia are almost perfectly located climatewise to get the worst possible weather for potholes and 2) I don’t really give a shit about them. Not part of my world. YMMV)Also, we have some big plans for the On Patrol feature. Give us a bit of time, as usual…
Alas, Tim, i agree with you that people here do not understand the science of potholes and complain about them. You migh have seen before that i mentioned that you cant really complain about them here, the change in tempreture is so crazy that the freezing/thawing here combined with the high accumulation of snow ( making the need for more plows than normal) make this POT HOLE HEAVEN. People blame the government, when actually, the government does a damn good job considering how the conditions here for pot holes are many many many times worse than any city this size in canada. So it appears we disagree on the Canada games thing, but agree on the pot holes and the money spent thing.
Alas Homie… Call me an alasshole, but there’s a figure of speech, that really doesn’t get nearly enough airplay in modern day social intercourse… And “Hark”, there’s another word we should all really try to use more often…So anyway on the “science of potholes”, I was talking to a friend of mine who happens to be a highly skilled pot-hologist… “Lo and behold” he pretty much confirmed everything you stated here… So all this time you were pretending to be an expert on everything else on this board,,, you were holding out on us with the potholes…Now Miles was mentioning that Ex-Hali is the go-to-guy for all things bus related, and I was thinking we should each select a speciality on which our word is undoubted… (I haven’t come up with one for myself yet, but I am working on it and I am open to suggestion).Maybe you can be The Homie PhD ( Pot Hole Doctorate)… Henceforth, ye shall be known as Dr Homie… whenever the topic of potholes is raised on this site… Alas…
I love you more and more everyday Floyd… lmao
Aw shucks CatLady, your making me blush now…