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Norwalk: The Osborne Street Debacle Continues


by turfgrrl


September 13th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Osborne street apparently has had more work done than Joan RIvers. Unlike Rivers, the summer of digging and trenching has not yielded beauty but rather it has resulted in the bumpiest excuse for a road in Norwalk. I am only surprised that a lost WW I battalion hasn’t popped up from one of the trenches. For sometime now, fingers have been pointing at the Second Taxing District for the attack roadwork. It turns out that its been the First Taxing District.

Today the First Taxing District Trucks were in force, digging the seemingly millionth hole in Osborne street. Residents have been told that nothing will happen till the pipes settle. Perhaps the First Taxing District is trying to send a legal bill to the pipes or something. In any case, it is clear that DPW has decided that bad roads, patched erratically by sub contractors hired by taxing districts are perfectly acceptable. They have made no efforts since May, to ensure that Osborne maintain some semblance of serviceability.

Meanwhile the First Taxing District has spent its time staging a battle around Klondike park. It seems that interfering with maintenance instead of oversight is more in line with their thinking. Lawsuits against the city instead of protecting the city’s roads.

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7 Responses so far ↓ “Norwalk: The Osborne Street Debacle Continues”



  • 1 #13 of the Miserable 25 // Sep 13, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    Osborne is one of the streets that has been so butchered that you have to drive on the wrong side of the road to keep from breaking a spring. I can just picture this in a snow storm when a plow hits that mess at 30 MPH.

    Forget the film makers, call the major auto manufacturers, they may want to rent Osborne Ave to road test their SUV’s for front end, and off road survival.

  • 2 here we go again // Sep 13, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    the fire dept and highway dept responded to a spill on that street, others were told about it they didn’t do their job they worked for the city and ignored the reports, next day they found pollution in the water along the river ,,no brainer where the slick came from,,news crews showed the fire dept and our city budget being used while the contractor should of been charged leaking the hydrolic fluid into the catch basin,,but it was swept under the rug,someone out here reported such a chain of events,, too bad there wasn’t some pictures of that event.

  • 3 Mr Greenpeace // Sep 13, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    thanks EAst Norwalk Native, while we are at it maybe you can also clarify it turns into St John St maybe?

    I ask because before the last spill in the river (sat) that was covered by our dedicated news service venues their was a suspected hydrolic spill (It was red) at the corner by the new condo where they were digging in the street days before.

    Spill was reported on the corner bad enough for the highway dept to send some sand to mix with speedy dry. The fire dept reported a spill bad enough to go into the drain. Called DEP and then no boom no problem but looking at the drain its about 20 feet deep according to the DEP.

    So three days pass and rain,,well then the big spill all over channel 12 and the pictures of aggressive polution control takes place by all.I figure the 6 or so fireman, the two highway workers, the DEP the company who spilled the fluid and any one else there must of forgot what happened a few days before when they were looking for a source in the river sat.

    THe speedy dry is still crusted at the L corner when you drive by and around the storm drain and ironically enough the spill was reported and ivestigated by where the drain pipe meets the river sat..

    Ok so all I have to tout is my experience in going to grateful dead concerts but I did when I was a kid have a connect the dot book ,,I wonder did anyone else out there have one to,,?

    My point,,what did it cost sat to respond drive up and down the river call the coast gaurd send out news crews, did anyone suspect it may of been a spill a couple of days before before the rain.

    fire reports published would of helped they generated a response number, asking the highway would of gotten nowhere no one would give that info out,,and the DEP well call them and ask them of the facts..see what they say?

    The detour signs were still in the bushes near the spill the trucks from NH are gone the ones we have been dodging parked along the street for two months along the ruts that have been left to brake a tierod with are still there and the lady on East ave at the end of the street is still walking in traffic..but how odd I am the only one to see any of this,,

    must be tooooooo many Dead concerts………………………………….too many rooms (thats mushrooms for editors translated)

    seriously any one else see this?

    by Mr Greenpeace — July 31, 2007 @ 10:28 pm

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  • 4 Mr Greenpeace // Sep 13, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    the above posting was in July amazing how things have not has changed,,thanks for the follow up thread now we should get some pictures of what is still going on since July,

    This followup stuff the blog is doing is awesome job it is news worthy

    hey #13 you used spring I used tierod seems we may see each other in the repair shop,I’ll buy you a coffee

    any pictures at twelve?

  • 5 MGeake // Sep 14, 2007 at 7:46 am

    Part of the problem — at least in the Second Taxing District — is the lack of “backfill” standards for city streets. Since I was first elected, we have made tens of thousands of dollars in repairs to our water mains necessitated by substandard road patches after repairs to city sewer lines. We have reams of correspondence with the city, whose attitude is that it isn’t their problem.

    Also note the knee-jerk “it’s the Second Taxing District’s fault” for a street not even on our side of the river. Again, the city doesn’t give a damn about correcting these problems; it just ignores them and hopes they’ll go away.

  • 6 Mike Soccia // Sep 14, 2007 at 8:45 am

    “hey #13 you used spring I used tierod seems we may see each other in the repair shop,I’ll buy you a coffee”

    God forbid that a motorcycle uses that road.

  • 7 Mr Greenpeace // Sep 14, 2007 at 9:18 am

    by the looks of the work being done the other day, there was no professional closure with or without water to settle anything, no tamping machine was visible and by the looks of it dig safe hadn’t been back for the opening,,a picture may show some of this fact,,you cant dispute pictures sometimes they do tell a thousand words..

    a side note our city knew the 30th of last month about the west nile virus next to a school but told us parents by news print today about its existance, the Hour had some great comments by the teacher who is out there for 6 hours, of course the area residents didn’t seen bothered as much, The Advocate could of reported more than just news release it takes journalism to deliver a article when effecting the safety of our children,,yes my childrenas well.

    The Dead Head strikes again

    maybe the blog can highlite this subject West Nile is not something to laugh about,This is a here and now health subject,,why it took so long for news release is a question isn’t it?

    sorry to hijack the thread but obviously the condition of the streets we will be discussing months from now.

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