Submitted by CoolAbdul t3_ze7e7k in WorcesterMA
(blatantly stolen from r/Louisville)
Submitted by CoolAbdul t3_ze7e7k in WorcesterMA
(blatantly stolen from r/Louisville)
Constant road closing with no warnings.......oh wait
As a pedestrian in this city this is honestly one of my biggest wishes. If they would only enforce crosswalk laws too I would be a happy person!
Defund the snowplows.
I would do absolutely nothing. They're doing great at this already!
Sanitation pickup now only occurs every third Tuesday
this would do the opposite of anger and frustrate me
Thing the big dig. But. In Worcester
Leave all of the roadkill in the roads, so passers by can keep track of the passage of time through the decay of their local roadkill.
Or Until the animal is finally flattened and ground into the road, only leaving a smudge mark.
I have been watching a dead beaver? Woodchuck? decay for 3 weeks now ๐
Please no. I live on bell hill.
Iโd enjoy a new flavor of comic relief.
Yeah but based around driving in Worcester this will piss off a lot more people than it makes happy.
The rotary on grafton street in front of the Pizza Hut, thatโs widened out so much that only one car can go thru. So good luck to emergency responders and big trucks because the sidewalk is also widened out at the edges of the blocks so thereโs no passing anywhere at all or anywhere to swerve to the side
That would actually be amazing for the city, once it's completed. 290 cutting the city in half is really bad urban planning.
Putting 290 underground and freeing up a ridiculous amount of space for parks and pedestrian friendly walkways? Don't threaten me with a good time.
Close 290
Reverse gentrification
Remove the drawstring from the trashbags.
Give all city workers police powers. All of them. DPW, kindergarten teachers, librarians, lunch ladies...you name it. Raise property taxes and initiate a special tax for renters. Use the money to create a slush fund that will pay out settlements for beatings of innocent citizens. Also, grant them a cut of each ticket they write. Also they can write a ticket for whatever they want. Just make something up. They can write you a ticket for eating a ham sandwich in public.
I know it seems like I am changing more than one thing, but I'm just fleshing out the idea expressed in the first sentence.
Demolish another skatepark
Raise taxesโฆ.never mind they are already doing that.
Never fix any of the potholesโฆ. Never mind the are already doing that too
Raise the cost of trash bagsโฆ.I think they did that recently
Spend 10 years fixing one spot on the highwayโฆ they are currently doing that.
I think Worcester is doing a good job pissing off people on their own
Oh I want it as a well. Just the project alone would sour people for the next 13 years
Exactly what I came here to say!
Iโm guessing you already reported it, but for others
I would triple the number of traffic lights on route 9. Of course to do this, I would need to block the road for 8 hours a day for the next 3 monthsโฆ
So more perks and walkways people wonโt use?
And make them even thinner!
Truly evil move.
We could use the carcasses to fill the potholes.
They briefly did 10 years ago. A plainclothes officer would see a car coming, start crossing, and any violators would be pulled over.
But then people started complaining about the $250 fine and threatened to sue because it felt like entrapment.
I saw them get three cars with one attempt on Hamilton St!
All intersections are now peanut-shaped.
Yeahhhh thin em up real good.
290 is pretty good at doing that all by itself.
Restrict the 190 entrance from 290, claim the work will be completed in a month, but do the Masshackerama "don't kill the job" thing.
And the bags are smaller, more flinsy, and cost more
Where is it? I might come by and pick it up.
I officially change the spelling of the town to Wouhstur.
I wouldn't have to do a damn thing
Back to twist ties!
They keep making those changes anyways, it seems like
Work really hard to get a deal with an ISP that isn't Spectrum. But instead it's Comcast...
aka the 70s
Do not disclose which side. Flip a coin every morning, tow accordingly.
Also make it one way, direction chosen by the same method, but a separate flip.
put in another roundabout like say next to the old RMV and kirch liqours
a coworker who i consider an honest guy was complaining about it. he got a ticket.
he said the cop would saunter into the road at the last second causing the driver to slam on brakes and swerve. coworker insisted he was not speeding and i believe him. the ticket was for failing to yield to pedestrian.
if that's the case they probably stopped to avoid being sued when they inevitably cause an accident.
these types of "gotcha" tactics are great for writing tickets and "raising awareness" but do absolutely nothing to improve safety and in many cases make things less safe.
They got me for that just a few years ago so they definitely still do it. The cop was โniceโ and โonlyโ gave me a $40 ticket โinstead of a $250โ, so maybe thatโs why people donโt complain anymore
i recently learned that if a raccoon drops dead on your property they won't come get it unless you shovel it onto a public way.
I had to sterilize my garden spade after rolling a 25 lb corpse 5 feet to the sidewalk. they collected it that day.
another time I reported a raccoon hit by car dying in the gutter of lake ave and the corpse was there 4 days later so idk how they operate.
how would we tell the difference?
Build an even bigger baseball stadium to evict and oppress homeless folks even harder. Wait Worcester gov already did that.
Dig up a road and expose all of the manholes covers 8 inches off the ground then leave them like that for 2 months.
Soccer stadium off park avenue
Coffee shops are no longer allowed to have drive-through.
I used to work on Hamilton St, where they had much needed weekly enforcement stings. One of the officers told us the enforcement stings prompted a wave of complaints (including someone they got three times in a week!), and thatโs why they stopped. We had a brief period of time where people slowed down, and then it went back to being dangerous.
Make the use a random number generator to control the length of light times on traffic signals
WPD set up across from where I worked on Hamilton St. There was a family that lived there that had a son in a motorized wheelchair, and daily drop offs from the school bus were hazardous from people ignoring the crosswalk and the bus lights and sign.
From what I saw, they made sure to step out with a block to spare, not last second. So many people speed on that road, forgetting itโs 25 mph in the city, so it might seem it was โlast second.โ
A few times they caught multiple drivers at the same time because there are two lanes and both would blast on through. They even managed to catch someone passing a stopped school bus with lights flashing and stop sign extended while he went through the crosswalk. That guy went ballistic and was lucky he wasnโt arrested.
Iโve been hit by cars three times in my life (crosswalk violation, doored, wrong way driver). Worcester drivers are a menace.
Mine do this automatically.
Does the government in Worcester really regulate trash bagsโฆ.
No worries. With construction delays and cost overruns, itโs likely to take more like a year.
Thanks for this. I LOLed hard enough to startle my cat.
Bring back the Paris Cinema.
City: put your trash out at 7:30am, not the night before, to avoid pest problems
Also City: comes at 7:05
Hang on... That's already in practice...
Chandler Street is next for this wonderful reconstruction
Changing the pronunciation of the town from Wih-stir to War-chest-er to appease the tourists!
OP, you can't make the best comment on your own post, too much.
Omg, and donโt you DARE think about putting it out at 6:30am because thatโs the same as leaving it out all night.
We put ours out the night before and have never had an animal rip our bags open. Fuck them. (*I need to go knock on wood now because Iโm sure I somehow just jinxed myself into a hefty fine)
There would probably be an increase in strokes with the number of people losing their shit over the expenditures and inconvenience.
People in Worcester really seem to hate progress.
So, keep things the same is what youโre saying?
The polar bear has to go. ๐๐คฃ
"People in Worcester really seem to hate progress."
Truer words have never been said.
easy. iโd fire myself.
No I'd be down for this, sounds fun
Sorry but they donโt actually work. Many studies on it, I used to have the same belief as you, till I looked into the reality of it.
Fuck a red light camera. Cars and pedestrians shouldnโt ever interact.
Increase the price of city mandated trash bags and lower the number of bags in the packs
Looks like Verizon is coming ๐
No no. Love progress. Hate progressives ๐
This might get us the ability to ticket via camera drivers who run through the school bus flashing lights!
Verizon is coming, announced yesterday.
Build another Ballpark on the other side of the city
At the same time, I hate having to listen to beeping and construction 24/7 outside my apartment. If they were filling in some of the damn potholes on the road, I wouldn't mind so much, but I haven't even noticed any positive change for the trouble.
Ikirio t1_iz4rfbh wrote
Traffic light cameras to ticket people that run a red light