Philly, your City Hall is just confusing us now
Listen, I'm not even gonna hold you, sometimes I look at the City Hall reports and wonder if they just throwing darts at a board over there. You'd think with all the stuff going on in Philly — the potholes eating tires whole, the trash situation, houses falling down — you'd see some clear priorities. But according to the latest 311 service request data, the top two categories are just listed as "Miscellaneous" requests. Not one, but two.
What even is "Miscellaneous," youse know? Is that like when you call up and say, "Yo, this jawn ain't right," and they just write it down as 'other stuff'? I'm tryna figure out what kind of problems get filed under that. Is it a broken fire hydrant on Girard, or is it someone complaining about the squirrels in Rittenhouse Square?
It feels like they need to tighten up how they track these calls so we can see what real issues are bothering regular folks in West Philly and all over. How we gonna fix things if we don't even know what the *things* are, or nah?
That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here.
Keisha Robinson-Moyer, MiTL Sports Desk Philadelphia
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