This is the crew chief in charge of laying new gas lines on our street. We have suffered through 2 months of our street being blocked off and having to park more than a block away, of being told we could back down our one way street weaving through giant front end loaders and other monster machines, banging of the street from these machines that starts at 6:45 AM, and most of all a cavalier attitude from the crew chief about the people that live on the street. My neighbor has a one year old baby and was stopped by one of the crew two blocks away from home and he told her she couldn't drive to her house. A man came out of a nearby house and moved the barrels so she could get by. I guess the crew guy new when to back down! Smart for the imbeciles we've been dealing with these last sixty days. The first day of the project they came and tied yellow tape down the street with "No Parking Tow Away Zone" on it where all the people who live here had their cars. The City of New Castle , DE needs to give some sensiitivity training to the men who work in the street department. The second picture shows the hole they dug in our historic brick sidewalk to put in a giant ugly gas meter which used to be in the basement and read electronically. Now we have an ugly eye sore on the wall.
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tazda lawson 16 Aug 2013
Don is right, but good or bad the arrogance of workers like this is a common acurrance everywhereDonald Schrier 09 Aug 2013
It is hard to understand how with an economy as bad as ours, with so many people out of work, that these men can be so discourteous to the people that are paying for it and that their elected officials can have the same attitude.yves colas 09 Aug 2013
great capture of a "man at work",it will be finished soon...Stanley Layman 08 Aug 2013
Such is life in the city!Brenda Loveless 08 Aug 2013
Sorry for your trauma; this is very personal journalism.