Damon Lane
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Greenbelt/Treebelt Archived79 Peru St Burlington, Vermont, 05401 - Burlington Electric
Illegal tree cutting.
A neighbor trimmed the City's tree in front of my house without the City's permission. Other neighbors told me he also parked illegally and bullied the parking officer. I don't know how enforcement of the ordinance below is handled, but I would like enforcement and would think a fine or something like that is in order. Some cities levy fines of $1,000, $10,000, or more and include up to 90 days in jail for cutting City trees.
"29-3 Cutting, pruning or removing trees prohibited; exception.
No person shall cut, prune or remove a tree or shrub in a street, public park or other city property, except with the approval and consent of the board of park commissioners or of the duly appointed tree warden or city forester.
(Rev. Ords. 1962, § 3852)"
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Sweeping Needed Archived186-318 Us-2 Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricThe Riverside bike lanes, especially the one going towards Winooski, have a lot of sand in them. There are some bonus branches from tree-cutting. A sweep would help. The separated path is better but there's a broken glass on it.
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Traffic Signal Problems Archived222 Riverside Ave Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricPhantom requests to stop Riverside. I commute along Riverside and every few days see this light turn red when there is no pedestrian or car coming from the Salmon Run Access. Sometimes, I think it only looks like this because the Access gets a long green and the car is long gone when I see the light, but sometimes, like this morning, I see Riverside change from green when no one is waiting.
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Greenride bikes on public rack ArchivedCollege St Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricAgain. Greenride has a data system right? And this happens often. I would think they would check their data more than daily and they would check this rack every Saturday and Sunday morning in peak summer to bring bikes back up the hill and get them off public racks before the public needs their racks mid morning.
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Street Pavement Condition ArchivedPark St & Sherman St Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricMini sink hole forming? Looks like the material under the asphalt has been hollowed out.
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College St Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricI believe GreenRide repositions bikes, but they need to step up the efforts because at the time of this photo, the GreenRide racks were full and this public rack was nearly full of GreenRide bikes, leaving no room for more public bikes. They should avoid this. Their data system did show 18 bikes at this location, so they know a big percent of their whole fleet was here and presumably could have a alert when there are more bikes than their racks have room for.
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Traffic Signal Problems ArchivedChurch St & Pearl St Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricPedestrian countdown timer says: 20, 19, 18, 0
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Water Leak ArchivedElmwood Ave & Peru St Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricThere appears to be a water leak here, going on for several months. I believe it was previously posted, but don't see the report now. There is still constantly water on the street, near the northern-most wiggle infrastructure on the east side of Elmwood Ave. I hope it gets fixed before permanent water turns into permanent ice.
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92 Church St Burlington, VT 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricI believe nothing is allowed to remain in this area near the building. This sign is egregious, but several other businesses break the rules by blocking the sidewalk paths or stretching too far towards the central walkway.
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Parks Department issue ArchivedLavalley Ln & Maple St Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricWaterfront greenway detour unnecessarily closes 1 mile of the path that is unaffected by current construction. Instead of simply "Path Closed," the signs should say "at Harrison Ave" or "open to the Lakeside neighborhood."
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New pavement, new puddle in crosswalk Acknowledged83 Peru St Burlington, VT 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricPaving and new sidewalks are opportunities to do more than resurface. We should be fixing drainage problems, not creating them. Put it in the specs that new pavement won't puddle.
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Transportation and Parking Improvement Request Acknowledged216 Lake St Burlington, VT, 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricThere's no logical pathway for pedestrians. Depot St, Lake St, a spur of the waterfront path, and the train tracks all meet here. The train and cars have clearly delineated and relatively straight paths through. Pedestrians and bikes, who I would guess are the majority of users of this intersection, are left to invent a way to get where they want to go. I wonder how this was missed when this area was worked on a few years ago, but pedestrian and bikes passing all different directions should be considered and changes made to accommodate that. The most obvious change would be to add a sidewalk and pedestrian track crossing on the left of this photo so people can walk from Depot St and the housing around to the skate park and path north without crossing Lake St. I often bike north through here, from the park and up Depot St and find this crossing difficult because I can't see well to the South on Lake St, and cars going north often cut this corner very tight, making it hard to make a right onto Lake St before making a left onto Depot
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Icy Conditions Archived332 Pine St Burlington, VT 05401, USA - Burlington ElectricThis must already be on DPW's puddle list but this is one of the worst drain-onto-the-sidewalk situations I know of.
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Is the sidewalk plow leaking oil? Archived73 Peru Street Burlington, Vermont - Burlington ElectricAround noon I noticed an oil sheen in three puddles. I don't know where it came from but the sidewalk was plowed earlier in the day.
