The following is an ‘Ask The Mayor’ question submitted to TLS, and the Mayor’s response. Email your questions for the Mayor to [email protected].

Question:

Firstly, Thank you for the opportunity to bring issues, both big and small to your attention.

When traveling south on new hampshire ave, over the 70, New hampshire narrows to 1 lane as it approached locust street. This often causes traffic to back up by the bottleneck. Perhaps the right lane can turn into a right turn lane for locust street and then narrow to 1 lane after that intersection. As someone that lives in the area (In lakewood at the tr border) I see many cars do turn right onto locust, so perhaps this can ease the congestion?

On a different note, by the July 3/4 heat wave/ power outage approximately 10 houses on my block (including mine) had a power outage on July 2. When JCP and L came on site, we were told that the fuse blew and it needs a new transformer. They will put in the request and for now just turn the fuse back on. The next day, July 3 the power went out again. When the crew showed up, they had no idea that this happened the night before. They replaced the fuse with a bigger fuse, but told us its a “band-aid “and they are putting in the request for a new transformer. They said hopefully sometime that night it would be replaced. Well that evening was the big storm and they clearly were busy with outages everywhere. So far our power is holding, I’m just wondering if we can get it fixed before it blows again? Who do I address this concern to?

Thank you again for your time and attention.

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good morning,

That stretch of road belongs to the county. I know they have some plans to address parking & turning lanes. I’ve forwarded your request to the county engineer so they can weigh in on exactly what is going on there.

I also reached out to the head of JCPL to see what’s up with the repair

Thanks,

Ray

Question:

Dear Mr. Coles, just wondering is the parking lot on 2nd street on schedule for resurfacing? It literally feels like a wave pool!!

Response from Mayor Coles:

Good news. The contract to repave this lot have already been awarded. Hopefully it will be complete sometime this fall

Take care

Ray

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