Comments on: A Powerless Mayor?

By: MIKETOUHY

MIKETOUHY — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:11:50 +0000

I think it’s best we take care of the immediate city releated structure and let the RTA/Metra take care of their structures though in a way it’s probably not a bad idea.

The fact they just rebuilt the Edison Pk staion instead of fixing up the old one you gotta wonder about them.

By: MIKETOUHY

MIKETOUHY — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:28:10 +0000

Looks like there’s another meeting tonight where you can say what you feel..

By: hoover

hoover — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:34:05 +0000

Anonymous 7/1/08 @ 7:45 a.m. makes a good point. If we can’t get better sewers, better streets and better electric power for what we already pay in taxes, then there is no reason to even consider taxing and spending bundles for a new police station or all those other non-necessities. There are times when I wonder whether our mayor, city mgr. and council are singing from the Todd Stroger tax and spend hymnal.

And by the way, those steps and railings at our main METRA station are pathetic, as is the parking lot along Summit. If METRA won’t fix it, either sue them to do it or do it ourselves because its all a disgrace.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:45:59 +0000

I’m a 15 year Park Ridge resident who moved here from Daley City. I own a portable generator for one main reason: I need to keep my sump pump running so my basement doesn’t flood because our sewer system sucks. Add sewers to the list of things Frimark hasn’t done, just like his predecessor, Mike (Uptown Redevelopment) Marous didn’t do, just like Ron (I Hate O’Hare) didn’t do.

Listen, Mr. Frimark. Stop wasting your time and our money on stuff that is a whole lot less important than electric power, flooded basements and crumbling streets. No more talk about a new police station. No more talk about a homeless shelter for bums who don’t live here. No more talk about more townhomes and condos. No more talk about library expansion.

Stop talking about all this other crap and FIX OUR DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE NOW!!!!!!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:10:12 +0000

I love these Blogs! There are some things that I read that I think are a bit unfair but that is the diversity of opinion. On this topic I am 100% on board.

Mr. Mayor, I understand that this is a difficult fix and there are a variety of players involved but I am seeing no progress.

When I moved to PR 5 years ago, virtually all my neighbors warned us about flooding and power outages. Nothing has chnaged in 5 years.

Like one of the above posters, I have lived in a variety of different places (urban and rural) and I have never experienced anything close to this!!!

Mr Mayor, Is it acceptable that everytime we have anything close to bad weather, the entire town holds out collective breath???

By: KaiserSosay

KaiserSosay — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:56:57 +0000

Happy-Go-Lucky,

I wouldn’t bet on less storms. We’re still early in the Summer, I think THE storm last year was in August, so we have a lot of runway ahead of us.

Guess we all should be gassing up our generators now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:29:44 +0000

Of the 24 houses on my block, three have permanent natural-gas driven generators and another 12 have portable gasoline-powered ones. Since graduating college I have lived for at least 2 years in 8 different towns (suburbs of bigger cities) in 6 different states – including Mississippi – and have never had worse electric power than this. And I also don’t think any of those towns had as many crumbling streets as this one, either. Which is too bad, because in all other respects it’s a great town with an almost Norman Rockwell feel to it – before they added those monstrosities on Northwest Hwy, I should add.

By: happy go lucky

happy go lucky — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:24:25 +0000

As far as I can tell the ONLY thing that has changed since last year …. is the weather. Not as many severe storms. If there were you can bet it would be the same ‘ol same ‘ol.

By: KaiserSosay

KaiserSosay — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:13:28 +0000

Has anything actually changed since last summer?

Aside from the dog and pony show that Com Ed did with the Mayor, have there been ANY changes or improvements to the power delivery infrastructure of Park Ridge?

Anything?

By: fred

fred — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:07:07 +0000

You guys pointed out awhile ago that somebody’s got to start talking about burying the cables or else trimming the trees way back. We also need to know that the transformers, switches and other mechanicals that serve our grid aren’t antiques.

ANd Frimark should be the guy whose leading this charge.