From city Communications Director Brett Broesder:
As part of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch’s continued efforts to make Bridgeport better every day, public works crews have been repairing roads and fixing potholes throughout Bridgeport following an incredibly difficult winter that wreaked havoc on the city’s streets. So far this season, crews have already repaired nearly 2,000 potholes.
Bridgeport has once again enlisted the Pot-Hole Killer, an innovative system that is quicker, safer and more environmentally friendly than traditional crew-based efforts to help repair roads in the Park City.
Along with the Pot-Hole Killer, Bridgeport is also using a Durapatcher, a pothole repair solution that uses spray injection technology. Durapatcher is a cost efficient and effective repair method that allows you to fill more potholes in a day with less labor.
“In Bridgeport, we’re using innovative technologies to repair our roads quicker and more efficiently following a long, difficult winter making our streets safer for those who live and work in the city,” said Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch. “Bridgeport is getting better every day, thanks in large part to the efforts of our crews who are working hard to improve our roads.”
Residents can report a pothole directly to the city’s Roadway Maintenance department using the BConnected smartphone app, calling the BConnected hotline at (203) 576-1311 or online at www.bridgeportct.gov/bconnected.
Hope they get to Glendale off Main. Looks like two sinkholes about to happen by two manhole covers.
It’s been an incredibly difficult winter for PWD employees who are still owed O.T. for hours worked. Management can’t keep track of employee’s O.T. hours. Weeks go by before employees get paid, if they get paid the correct amount they deserve. Management does not care. They just tell people see me tomorrow, see me on Friday, I’ll get back to you. If you talk to the man in charge he tells you go back and talk to the foreman who’s been dropping the ball for the last three weeks. Great job repairing the potholes, guys!
Tell your union to get off their asses and file an unfair labor practice. Tell your union to contact the state wage enforcement bureau. File an unfair labor practice. Do a work rule work slow down. Just get your union to do their jobs.
Maybe skip the video production/PR campaign and substitute “more quickly” for “quicker” in your latest drivel-cast (hint: you need an adverb here, Brett: “In Bridgeport, we’re using innovative technologies to repair our roads quicker …”).
And maybe instead, just fill the potholes, pay the road-crew workers what they’re owed when they’re owed it, and fire the PR guy?