fair enough, but, look, at least now you CAN. Suppose it was driving you crazy that the meter outside your office was broken, and when you tried to call someone about it you got transferred six times to people who didn't know what you were talking about and didn't care. That's what you'd be looking at in Albuquerque, and while I never called about a parking meter, I DID try to call about a road project that shut off access to my street and then was apparently abandoned for about a week. There was another way in, but much less convenient.
The city could not have been more indifferent but I was pretty upset about the whole thing, especially after we had to get a radiator fixed over this project and nobody could tell us what the project was even doing. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Casey Dougall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> <http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/03/open-311>For instance, I can >> use the same >> application to report a broken parking meter when I'm home in the >> District of Columbia or traveling to cities like Portland, Los >> Angeles, Boston, or San Francisco. This is the perfect example of how >> government is simplifying access to citizen services. Open 311 is an >> innovation that will improve peoples lives and make better use of >> taxpayer dollars. >> >> The event which will take place at the 311 Customer Service Center in >> San Francisco, California will be streamed live below starting at 2:30 >> p.m. EST/11:30 a.m. PST. >> > > > > You really think someone wants to report a broken parking meter? I mean > look what you need to do in DC... > > http://ddot.dc.gov/DC/DDOT/Services/Parking+Services/Report+a+Broken+Parking+Meter > Report a Broken Parking Meter > > You can report a Broken Meter by calling the Mayor's Citywide Call Center at > 311 <http://311.dc.gov/> or completing a service request online using the > District government's Service Request Center <http://311.dc.gov/>. > > Identify the meter by its unique meter ID number (located on the inside of > the dome of single-space meters and on the front of multi-space meters) and > describe the specific problem (i.e. coin jam, out of order, flashing fail, > out of paper, etc.) A service request will be put into the tracking system, > and you should receive a service request number. > > *Scheduled Response Time* > > Single-space parking meter: 72 hours* > Multi-space parking meter: 24 hours* > > *Excludes Sundays and holidays > > Call the Mayor's Hotline at 311 <http://311.dc.gov/> or (202) 727-1000 if > the problem hasn't been repaired by the specified date of completion. Please > reference your service request number. > ~ > > Who's got a parking meter that need pranking? Government dollars well at > work LOL > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313320 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
