Abandoned road signs

I called 311 a little more than 3 months ago about several abandoned road signs scattered up and down Polk street. The person on the other end said they will notify the department of signs. Should I call 311 again?

It's funny that there is a sign to watch for elderly, but right below it is a trip hazard to the same people especially when it was covered with snow. I slipped on it when trying to park my bicycle when it was covered with snow.

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Permalink Reply by We all have an inner Beast... on March 29, 2013 at 6:55am

Maybe after a week or so, you should just pick it up and "donate" it to Working bikes, or some other "institution" like that.

Just a thought.

Especially, since they don't give a crap about it.

 

 

Respectfully,

 

Manny

Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on March 31, 2013 at 7:40am

If I had a pickup truck, I would gladly take them to a friends large party lot in the west loop.

Trying do do things the right way though, I sent what I thought to be the 42nd ward an e-mail with a picture attached, they then told me it was in the 4th ward, so then the 4th ward tells me it is located in the 2nd ward till 2015.

Still no speedy response from the blighted 2nd ward. GRRR!

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on March 31, 2013 at 9:15am

Last year or the year before there was a couple abandoned construction signs right out in front of Alderman Colon's office in the 35th ward for about 9 months before someone finally did something about it  They were blocking 2-3 bike racks and/or the sidewalk that whole time.

If that happens right in front of an Alderman's office I don't think anyone is coming to clean it up unless a bum takes it and tries to cash it out as scrap metal.  Do you have a scrap metal place nearby?  That'd be your only hope or just picking it up yourself and throwing it into a dumpster. 

Permalink Reply by Mike Schwab on March 31, 2013 at 11:07am

Pick them up and lay them in the street?
Or drop them up at the ward office or the CDOT office?

 

Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on April 1, 2013 at 9:18am

I went so far as to even send a message to the 2nd ward's FB page. Alas no response.

So I started googling the 2nd ward and it seems it is stuck in a jerrymandering clusterbomb of unclear boundries and potential lawsuits regarding the slicing and dicing of the location.

Ahh, the joy of politics.



h' 1.0 said:

2nd ward office has been a run-around giver and a ball-dropper in all of my experience with it.

Juan 2-8 mi. said:

If I had a pickup truck, I would gladly take them to a friends large party lot in the west loop.

Trying do do things the right way though, I sent what I thought to be the 42nd ward an e-mail with a picture attached, they then told me it was in the 4th ward, so then the 4th ward tells me it is located in the 2nd ward till 2015.

Still no speedy response from the blighted 2nd ward. GRRR!

Permalink Reply by Julia 3.5/7.5 mi on April 2, 2013 at 9:43am

We have a "detour" sign an a sandbag sitting over near 60 E Balbo from the same project. I leaned it against the parking lot fence next door. I'll gladly drop them off at CDOT or a ward office if they'll take them!

Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on April 27, 2013 at 7:53am

My newest on street art installation titled "Collecion de mierda tirado".

Permalink Reply by Juan Primo on April 27, 2013 at 10:29am

It's a statement on the isolation of city life.  The stark penal oranges, the dog walker imprisoned in a chain link lot, do not enter, the bare trees, the blank wals.  Collecion de mierda tirado is an important work.

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