Street Services Angers A Mayor

Probably not the Mayor you're thinking of, but this old dead one.

Last night I was on my way home and as I came up to my garage, a Street Services truck was blocking my garage. There was one worker snapping Polaroids of a telephone pole, while his "partner" was leaning against the truck sipping some kind of beverage. As I drove up and they could cleary see I was trying to park, they just sat there. (By the way there were plenty of places they could have parked other than in front of my garage.)

This begs a few questions:

• Why would city employees seek to inconvenience a constituent?
• Why does it require two employees to take a picture of a telephone pole? (Obviously it doesn't because remember one of the guys was sipping a drink)
• And what the hell is the city doing using POLAROID cameras? Polaroid film is horrifically expensive and everyone uses digital these days!

Now, a small incident and a minor annoyance at best, but I leave it to amongst our many readers in City Hall who have the ability to do something about these things. Lets make sure our city operations make sense okay?