State of your Street address - WNYC - The Brian Lehrer show
Today on the Brian Leher show, he had an awesome segment called the State of Your Street Address. As I listen to talk shows more and more I think what is the purpose and what was the effectiveness. These are some of the complaints people called in:
Effectiveness / Con: Most of the callers where from well-to do neighborhoods, thus most of the complaints were trivial and out of touch in my opinion. Or they highlighted exactly what it means to be a New Yorker.
For instance if it had snowed and the Dept. of Sanitation hadn't sprayed the city in salt as a precaution people would have been up-in-arms. So, taking a jab and saying Mayor De Blasio prep Park Slope because that's were he is from is petty. Down in the no-where of the South Bronx we too J-walked across glittery sandy streets in anticipation of a snow storm.
Brian Lehrer's most logical solution contact your council member. Listener's most logical solution create a coalition and stay on top of your council member. Number 5 was the only praise that was reported.
- Folks are cutting down street trees for varies reasons and leaving the tree stump in the ground.
- In certain neighborhoods roads haven't been paved in years, and there are large potholes which are a danger to walking pedestrians and cause traffic accidents
- One family is buying up the apartments in a multi-family Brownstone
- Constant construction in Lower Manhattan - decreases the quality of life
- Neighbors not Picking up after their dogs and bird poop on municipal meters
- Constant flooding and sewage overflow - This finally was address
- Dept. of Sanitation workers spreading salt on the streets and it didn't even snow
- Neighbors not cleaning up after their dogs
Effectiveness / Con: Most of the callers where from well-to do neighborhoods, thus most of the complaints were trivial and out of touch in my opinion. Or they highlighted exactly what it means to be a New Yorker.
For instance if it had snowed and the Dept. of Sanitation hadn't sprayed the city in salt as a precaution people would have been up-in-arms. So, taking a jab and saying Mayor De Blasio prep Park Slope because that's were he is from is petty. Down in the no-where of the South Bronx we too J-walked across glittery sandy streets in anticipation of a snow storm.
Brian Lehrer's most logical solution contact your council member. Listener's most logical solution create a coalition and stay on top of your council member. Number 5 was the only praise that was reported.
Comments
Post a Comment