[SCA-BMDL] Sca-bmdl Digest, Vol 67, Issue 9

Libby libbyparker1 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 15:22:35 EST 2011


OMG!!!   HOORAY!!!!  ahem...see below regarding the pothole at the
Washington Blvd practice site:

Hee Hee,
Libby

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From: Urbanic, Wendy <Wendy.Urbanic at city.pittsburgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:01 PM
Subject: FW: Forwarding Mayor Feedback Form Ticket #2100 - from
heather.howard at city.pittsburgh.pa.us
To: maris.caldwell at gmail.com


 This was patched today.



We appreciate you bringing it to our attention.



Thanks!



Wendy Urbanic, Coordinator

311 Response Center

412.255.4784

Fax:  412.255.2789

wendy.urbanic at city.pittsburgh.pa.us


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Libby <libbyparker1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I believe this is the site that Myfanwy was referring to:
>
> If you'd like to read the article about the site it is:
> http://news.cs.cmu.edu/article.php?a=2272
>
> The site to upload photos can be found at: http://rodasproject.org/#/
>
> I already placed repair requests at all four of the other sites mentioned.
> I hope we can get a timely response from the city pothole team...I'm really
> looking forward to "The Throwing of the Sharp and Pointy Things!
>
>  Libby
>
>
>
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>>   1. Re:  Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot. (Elss_of_Augsburg)
>>   2. Re:  Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot. (Ruth Morrisson)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:55:15 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Elss_of_Augsburg <elss_of_augsburg at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot.
>> To: BMDL SCA <sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
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>> Also, try this one - the Mayor's pothole hotline:
>>
>> http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/mayor/html/pothole.html
>>
>> They say, "It is our goal to address pothole requests within 5 working
>> days.  Please submit your information on the form below.  We appreciate your
>> help in keeping our streets safe!"
>>
>> Let's see if that's true!
>>
>> Elss
>>
>> --- On Mon, 3/7/11, Shawn MacIntyre <medicmacintyre15219 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> From: Shawn MacIntyre <medicmacintyre15219 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot.
>> To: sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 4:30 PM
>>
>> Sorry, I probably should have said; the Practice Site is a section of
>> Highland Park that I don't believe has an official name. The best way to
>> comment would be to state the Parking Area nearest to the intersection of
>> Washington and Allegheny River Blvds.
>>
>> Thanks for everyones help.
>>
>>
>> TH Lord Liam MacanTsaoir (SCA)
>> Dean of Aethelmearc War College
>> In Omnia Paratus
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 3/7/11, Erin Kelly <tupan4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Erin
>>  Kelly <tupan4 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot.
>> To: sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 4:10 PM
>>
>> Thanks, Liam.
>>
>> Is there an address or official name for the park land we use there? I
>> want to be specific as possible. (This space is still officially part of
>> Highland park, right?)
>>
>> ERIN
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Shawn MacIntyre <
>> medicmacintyre15219 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings to All;
>>
>> Very soon, Archery, Thrown Weapons, Fencing and Heavy Fighter practice
>> will return to Washington Blvd. Last Year, many of us asked the City of
>> Pittsburgh to do something to repair the then 18 inch deep hole at the
>> entrance to the parking lot which makes it difficult to get in or out of the
>> lot itself. When I wrote to the Mayor's Service center regarding this
>> problem Last
>> Summer, I was advised that there was a plan to make that repair in the
>> fall of last year.
>>
>> I had the opportunity to drive past the site yesterday and the 18 inch
>> deep hole is now deeper and wider. I would like to encourage as many people
>> as possible, and most especially City Residents to contact the Mayor's
>> Service Center? as well as the Councilman for that district Patrick Dowd. I
>> have provided links to their pages below.
>>
>>
>> Patrick Dowd's Comment Area
>> http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/district7/html/district_7_feedback.html
>>
>>
>> Mayor's Service Center
>> http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/mayor/html/311_request_form.html
>>
>> Mayor's Office Direct
>>
>> http://www.pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/feedback/?f=19
>>
>> Thanks for your help, I'm sure this will do well to save us and other
>> residents in Tires, Axles and Ball joints.
>>
>>
>> In Service,
>>
>> Liam
>>
>>
>> TH Lord Liam MacanTsaoir (SCA)
>>
>> Dean of Aethelmearc War College
>> In Omnia Paratus
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>> Date: Mon,  7 Mar 2011 23:40:31 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Ruth Morrisson <myfanwy at consolidated.net>
>> Subject: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot.
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>> Greetings from Myfanwy!
>> Here's a related note: I heard an interesting thing on the radio today, on
>> KQV.
>> Every so often they do live interviews with various people and this
>> afternoon
>> they talked to some CMU professor about a project where you can take a
>> cell
>> phone photo of potholes you see in the city and then upload it to a
>> website
>> (sorry -- I didn't catch the URL).  The GPS in your phone transmit the
>> pothole
>> co-ordinates to Google Maps and shows the pothole as a red dot on the map,
>> then (after the City has gotten them filled) the dots are changed to green
>> ones.
>> The interviewee was a Professor of Economics (?) and Policy Management.
>>  The
>> idea for the project came from a graduate exchange student from Chile
>> (apparently, in her country they have contests every year for Biggest
>> Pothole!)
>> and then other people did the coding for the website.
>> If you Google "pothole project" you can find articles that were in the
>> _Pittsburgh
>> Tribune-Review_ and in the _Post-Gazette_.  The project is called "Rodas"
>> (for
>> Road Damage Assessment System) and it's apparently done through a Facebook
>> account.
>> ---- Original message ----
>> >Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:55:15 -0800 (PST)
>> >From: Elss_of_Augsburg <elss_of_augsburg at yahoo.com>
>> >Subjectt: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot.
>> >To: BMDL SCA <sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
>> >
>> >Also, try this one - the Mayor's pothole hotline:
>> >
>> >http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/mayor/html/pothole.html
>> >
>> >They say, "It is our goal to address pothole requests within 5 working
>> days.
>> >Please submit your information on the form below. We appreciate your help
>> in
>> >keeping our streets safe!"
>> >
>> >Let's see if that's true!
>> >
>> >Elss
>> >
>> >--- On Mon, 3/7/11, Shawn MacIntyre <medicmacintyre15219 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >  From: Shawn MacIntyre <medicmacintyre15219 at yahoo.com>
>> >  Subject: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot.
>> >  To: sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> >  Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 4:30 PM
>> >
>> >  Sorry, I probably should have said; the Practice Site is a section of
>> >  Highland Park that I don't believe has an official name. The best way
>> to
>> >  comment would be to state the Parking Area nearest to the intersection
>> of
>> >  Washington and Allegheny River Blvds.
>> >
>> >  Thanks for everyones help.
>> >
>> >  TH Lord Liam MacanTsaoir (SCA)
>> >  Dean of Aethelmearc War College
>> >  In Omnia Paratus
>> >
>> >  --- On Mon, 3/7/11, Erin Kelly <tupan4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >    From: Erin Kelly <tupan4 at yahoo.com>
>> >    Subject: Re: [SCA-BMDL] Washington Blvd driveway and parking lot.
>> >    To: sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> >    Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 4:10 PM
>> >
>> >    Thanks, Liam.
>> >
>> >    Is there an address or official name for the park land we use there?
>> I
>> >    want to be specific as possible. (This space is still officially part
>> of
>> >    Highland park, right?)
>> >
>> >    ERIN
>> >
>> >    On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Shawn MacIntyre
>> >    <medicmacintyre15219 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >      Greetings to All;
>> >
>> >      Very soon, Archery, Thrown Weapons, Fencing and Heavy Fighter
>> practice
>> >      will return to Washington Blvd. Last Year, many of us asked the
>> City of
>> >      Pittsburgh to do something to repair the then 18 inch deep hole at
>> the
>> >      entrance to the parking lot which makes it difficult to get in or
>> out of
>> >      the lot itself. When I wrote to the Mayor's Service center
>> regarding
>> >      this problem Last Summer, I was advised that there was a plan to
>> make
>> >      that repair in the fall of last year.
>> >
>> >      I had the opportunity to drive past the site yesterday and the 18
>> inch
>> >      deep hole is now deeper and wider. I would like to encourage as
>> many
>> >      people as possible, and most especially City Residents to contact
>> the
>> >      Mayor's Service Center  as well as the Councilman for that district
>> >      Patrick Dowd. I have provided links to their pages below.
>> >
>> >      Patrick Dowd's Comment Area
>> >
>> http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/district7/html/district_7_feedback.html
>> >
>> >      Mayor's Service Center
>> >      http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/mayor/html/311_request_form.html
>> >
>> >      Mayor's Office Direct
>> >      http://www.pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/feedback/?f=19
>> >
>> >      Thanks for your help, I'm sure this will do well to save us and
>> other
>> >      residents in Tires, Axles and Ball joints.
>> >
>> >      In Service,
>> >
>> >      Liam
>> >
>> >      TH Lord Liam MacanTsaoir (SCA)
>> >      Dean of Aethelmearc War College
>> >      In Omnia Paratus
>> >
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>> Ruth Morrisson
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