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Speaker 1: Come morning, Peter ALVIDI, Good morning, Jean.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing.

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Speaker 1: Everything's good on my end. Just give me a couple

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Speaker 1: of quick lightning ground short answers on the follow up

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Speaker 1: on the snow. Most of the complaints appear to be

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Speaker 1: coming in Providence. I know that you plow some city

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Speaker 1: streets in Providence. They belong to you as opposed to

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Speaker 1: the city. What's your assessment? Was there enough coordination? Is

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Speaker 1: this Smiley's problem because the complaints are coming at a

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Speaker 1: little heavier than we anticipated.

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Speaker 2: Peter well Jee, I can always speak to the state

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Speaker 2: roads that we are responsible for. The cities and municipalities

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Speaker 2: facing their own challenge. It's a different set of challenges

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Speaker 2: on the main roads that we're responsible for. We have

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Speaker 2: a particular strategy. We've got a seasoned management staff from

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Speaker 2: the governor on down to the governor being an ex

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Speaker 2: mayor he gets snow removal. We put in place a

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Speaker 2: strategy on this storm and we stuck to it. We

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Speaker 2: executed it. The maintenance workers that are out there with

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Speaker 2: the plows stata on it. We rolled out a plan

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Speaker 2: that included pre treatment of the roadways during the storm.

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Speaker 2: The governor strategically implemented a ban he got out there

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Speaker 2: and that gooed to asking people to stay off the road.

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Speaker 2: That all helped us accomplish our strategy. I think our

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Speaker 2: folks executed it very well. They got the roads opened

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Speaker 2: very quickly. By the next morning they were passible, people

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Speaker 2: clean up, and by midday had pretty much cleared all

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Speaker 2: the roads now to pavement. I think they did a

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Speaker 2: great job. Really a shout out to my folks and

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Speaker 2: the private contractors that we've we've had out there with us.

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Speaker 2: They let me with it for forty eight hours getting

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Speaker 2: it done.

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Speaker 1: Let me just readirect you back to Providence because you guys,

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Speaker 1: I guess you do Allen's Avenue, but then the ancillary

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Speaker 1: streets off there. I mean, you're kind of involved in

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Speaker 1: the coordinated effort. Is this Smiley's problem that he didn't

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Speaker 1: get enough cars towed, cars ticketed? Just give me your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on that and then we'll get to ask to Dot.

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Speaker 2: We didn't find any of those problems on the roads

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Speaker 2: in the municipalities that we're responsible for. We're able to

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Speaker 2: clear those roads effectively. As you get further into the neighborhoods,

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Speaker 2: the issues that you're talking about. Being a former DPW director,

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Speaker 2: I'm familiar with the kind of neighborhood issues that go

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Speaker 2: along with clearing snow of this order of magnitude. It

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Speaker 2: was quite a bit of snow, and you get to

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Speaker 2: the point where, even if cars are not on the road,

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Speaker 2: you're working in tighter spaces. You've got smaller areas to

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Speaker 2: becomes an issue of there's so much of it, where

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Speaker 2: do you put it? That becomes a challenge. It takes

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Speaker 2: it takes some time to do that, even on our

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Speaker 2: wide open highways where this particular snowstorm presented that kind

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Speaker 2: of a challenge. In fact, we're out there today cleaning

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Speaker 2: up some areas and widening some areas in preparation for Sunday.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've got another one coming on Sunday. So,

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Speaker 2: but the municipalities in the neighborhood streets present a different

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Speaker 2: kind of challenge that I'm sure the mayor and other

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Speaker 2: mayors throughout the state. We were in touch with them.

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Speaker 2: The Governor was in touch with them during the entire storm,

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Speaker 2: but they have a different set of challenges that make

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Speaker 2: getting rid of this sheer volume of snow a pretty

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Speaker 2: daunting task. And look, it sounds to me when the

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Speaker 2: mayor was on and I've spoken with other mayors that

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Speaker 2: they're on this, they're going to stay out until they

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Speaker 2: get it resolved.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like they got stuck going more cars and the

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Speaker 1: carrot and stick that only works.

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Speaker 2: So I got to tell you, I got to tell

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Speaker 2: you that was such a help to us. The governor

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Speaker 2: implemented the band at precisely the right time, kept it

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Speaker 2: in place for twenty four hours, having tracked the trailers

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Speaker 2: off the road, and having I got to hand it

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Speaker 2: to the commuters in the state of Rhode Island, our

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Speaker 2: citizens that stayed off the road also made a big

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Speaker 2: difference in us being able to be effective in getting

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Speaker 2: far enough in advance, keeping them in place for a

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Speaker 2: great deal. So you know, kudos to the gunv on that.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the calls of Peter IL

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Speaker 1: eighty for three eight.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, b go hi.

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Speaker 4: Whipple Road.

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Speaker 5: I believe it's a North Providence road. It's hilly, very guarded,

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Speaker 4: You wouldn't know when that will be paved.

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Speaker 1: Could you say the road again, Whipple Road? Whipple? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: you want it paved, Peter. I know you don't have

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Speaker 1: the street list in front of you exactly the schedule is,

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Speaker 1: but anything hands.

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Speaker 2: I will say this, during the last several years, for

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Speaker 2: the first time ever the state, the governor has made

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Speaker 2: in his budget available funding for municipalities to pave their

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Speaker 2: own roads, and it's an incentive. He is providing thirty

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Speaker 2: three percent of the cost of paving those roads, and

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Speaker 2: the cities and towns then get the benefit of that

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Speaker 2: that funding by providing the other two thirds of funding.

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Speaker 2: All the cities and towns are doing that. We've paved

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Speaker 2: I think over one hundred and fifty million dollars of

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Speaker 2: it again this year. I know the Mayor of North

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Speaker 2: Providence by next week I'll ask him where Whipple is

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Speaker 2: on his list, but I'm sure it's on his radar.

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Speaker 1: Okay, they will get you an answer next week on

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Speaker 1: Whipple specifically next then go ahead, Jim and Lamb.

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Speaker 5: Go.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 6: Mendon Road and Cumberland, also known as Route one two

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Speaker 2: It's real, real bad, and I'm just wondering when it's

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Speaker 2: going to finally be six. Not familiar with the with

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Speaker 2: the kind of work that's being done out there. If

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Speaker 2: it's utility work, that usually is work that precedes us

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Speaker 2: going in and getting the road repaved. But let me check.

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Speaker 2: Let me check for you with with our folks on

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Speaker 2: what the progress of the work that's being done, to

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Speaker 2: see when it's going to wrap up and we can

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Speaker 2: get we can get pavement down in that area.

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Speaker 1: Few folks, Jim, do you know is it the utility

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Speaker 1: cutting up and laying stuff down.

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Speaker 7: There's also a water issue.

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Speaker 6: I think there's a spring or something that keeps freezing over.

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Speaker 6: It's from between Burger King and Angel Road and Cumberland.

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Speaker 3: It's it's awful.

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Speaker 7: It's been bad for five ten years.

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Speaker 6: They've been working on it for at least three years.

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Speaker 2: Let me check and see what the work is being

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Speaker 2: done there, and I'll I'll get you some information on

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Speaker 2: the progress and what you can expect.

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Speaker 1: Answer coming next week. Follow up next, Steve, Go ahead, Steve.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Peter, you ever sent Boulevard ninety five nor through Providence.

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Speaker 4: You have a lot of construction going on. You move

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Speaker 4: the lanes, so you had to move the lane striping

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Speaker 3: When you have to rip up or remove.

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Speaker 8: The lane striping, there are considerable damage to the roads

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Speaker 8: and huge pop everywhere. I think it's the same for

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Speaker 8: the reverse commute. How many entire claims are you getting

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Speaker 8: from this because there are giant holes everywhere.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not sure of the claims, but I'm certainly aware.

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Speaker 2: I drive over that on a daily basis, and I'm

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Speaker 2: aware of that. Sometimes our contractors get a little aggressive

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Speaker 2: the stripes, and we've tried to mitigate that by asking

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Speaker 2: them to adjust and calibrate their equipment that takes those

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Speaker 2: stripes up so that they're not digging as deep. I'm

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Speaker 2: familiar with the particular patches Unfortunately, we're in a cold

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Speaker 2: spell where the asphalt plants are close. But I'll make

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Speaker 2: sure that those particular divots that you're talking about our fixed,

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Speaker 2: at least temporarily to get a smooth surface, not only

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Speaker 2: for you but for me. As I ride over them

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Speaker 2: every day, I notice them. I have been speaking to

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Speaker 2: our folks about them, and we're going to get those addressed.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Jefferson Boulevard, as you come down by

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Speaker 1: Route ninety five, you can't get on ninety five south.

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Speaker 1: That ramp is closed, or just keep that money. If

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Speaker 1: you jump off easy going north and you think you're

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Speaker 1: going to go south to make it, you're not. You've

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Speaker 1: got to go all the way around. So I've done

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Speaker 1: the mistake twice.

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Speaker 2: To get you. You've got to go up to the

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Speaker 2: airport connector and get on that to get on ninety five.

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Speaker 2: Sorry for the inconvenience, but you know, we need to

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Speaker 2: fix that bridge there, and it's the only way that

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Speaker 2: we could get it fixed.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Meantime, all of the businesses now they're including your uncle

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Speaker 2: that's down there with his TVs. They they're still operating.

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Speaker 2: We made sure that we contacted them before we did

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Speaker 2: this work. There is plenty of opportunity. You can get

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Speaker 2: off ninety five and go right to those businesses in

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Speaker 2: that area as conveniently as you always have to get

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Speaker 2: back on to ninety five. You just got to go

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Speaker 2: a half mile or a mile up Jefferson Boulevard to

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Speaker 2: the airport connector. But all the businesses there have been contacted.

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Speaker 2: We make sure we coordinated with them so that they

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Speaker 2: can continue to operate pretty much unaffected during this whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, next call it all right, Ray and woodsaka goat Ray.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 3: I'm calling about the lines on the road, and I'm

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Speaker 3: not complaining about the snow because there's nothing that much

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Speaker 3: you can do about that. But at night, when I'm driving,

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Speaker 3: as you know the new cars, the lights are very

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Speaker 3: very bright, So when I drive, I'm looking at that

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Speaker 3: right that line on the right hand side of the road.

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Speaker 3: I live in one socket. Diamond Hill Road is beautiful.

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Speaker 3: It's been painted recently. It's wonderful. I was on one

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Speaker 3: on one yesterday not so good. My question is, do

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Speaker 3: you have a team or do you have people that

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Speaker 3: go around checking these lines to make sure they need

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Speaker 3: to be painted more often?

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Speaker 2: We do as a matter of fact. Line striping is

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Speaker 2: a continuous effort at and we've got restriping pretty much

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Speaker 2: program so that we get back out to areas that

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Speaker 2: have gone too long without being We've got them all

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Speaker 2: program so that we have a schedule on when they

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Speaker 2: need to be restriped. I will check on that particular

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Speaker 2: road that you mentioned. What was it again? Please rough

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Speaker 2: one on one.

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Speaker 3: But I see it all over the place. I travel

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Speaker 3: all over. And do you have a program where the

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Speaker 3: police or the state police or other people are feeding

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Speaker 3: you so that if they see a line that's getting

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Speaker 3: dull it needs to be repainted. You have anything like

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Speaker 3: that going on?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we do. Continuously. We get feedback not only from

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Speaker 2: the state police and our own folks that are out there.

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Speaker 2: But as I said, you know, we have a program

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Speaker 2: that gets roads restriped every two years at least. If

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Speaker 2: one falls into disrepair sooner we try and get to those.

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Speaker 2: But we do that out with the resources that we

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Speaker 2: have and we and that's a continuous process.

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Speaker 1: They got a hold of there. Eight twenty quick break.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with Peter H.

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Speaker 2: Mayland body.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good.

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Speaker 9: Morning, mayor yes, good morning. You know someone call about

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Speaker 9: the Whipple Hill. We do have a whipple but it's

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Speaker 9: not a hill. But I just ordered the DPW to.

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Speaker 3: Get out there and double check it.

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Speaker 9: So just want to let you know we'll we'll address it.

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Speaker 9: But we don't have a Whipple hill.

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Speaker 3: Whipple Road, Whipple Road, Yeah, Whipple and Whipple Road is

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Speaker 3: not a hill in our community.

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Speaker 9: But I just want to shore where a coal We

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Speaker 9: got a truck going right out there.

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Speaker 1: Very nice mayor action, that's what we like. All right, Peter,

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Speaker 1: get that taken care of. Get your reconnaissance on that immediately.

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Speaker 1: Next call it for Peter. All right, Kim go ahead, Kim,

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Speaker 1: go hi.

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Speaker 10: I'm calling about the light from Provident Street to Tollgate.

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Speaker 10: When you're at the light crossing over route to to Tollgate,

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Speaker 10: there's a severe delay. You get two cards that go through,

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Speaker 10: then it turns red again, going on for like a week,

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Speaker 1: We'll get it. Just go slowly. I'm getting a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the area. Just go slowly against somebody gets

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Speaker 1: a mental picture. Where is it.

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Speaker 10: Providence Street turns into Tollgate. Then you're at Route two

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Speaker 10: at the light before for us is over route too

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Speaker 10: to continue on to tollgate to go to the hospital. Okay,

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Speaker 10: the light at Route two right there, Okay, got it.

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Speaker 2: Peter, Yep, we'll have We'll have our maintenance crews out

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Speaker 2: there and our traffic folks out there to check that

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Speaker 2: signal timing and get it six for you. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So many complaints about the signal timing. And I know

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Speaker 1: you said they're robbing the copper. So the lights, the

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Speaker 1: highway lights, are they robbing the copper for this stuff too?

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Speaker 1: Is it more to it or just faulty equipment? What

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Speaker 2: No? I think you know. We've got many of our signals.

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Speaker 2: We're going through and modernizing all of our signals throughout

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Speaker 2: the state. But some of the old ones that are

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Speaker 2: in place still operate with loops that are in the pavement,

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Speaker 2: their sensors in the pavement that sense when cars are

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Speaker 2: over them. Sometimes those loops go into disrepair, they get

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Speaker 2: disconnected over time, and we need to go in and

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Speaker 2: repair those. That may be the case here. Another example

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Speaker 2: is the timing boxes themselves. The electronics that these signals

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Speaker 2: work on in some cases go out of calibration over time. Weather,

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Speaker 2: time and they become dysfunctional, so we have to go

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Speaker 2: in and repair the boards and electronic circuitry in those controllers.

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Speaker 2: So it could be one of the other. But we'll

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Speaker 2: get a crew right out there to this one and

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Speaker 2: we'll figure out what's wrong with it and we'll get

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Speaker 2: it fixed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Larry gohead, Larry go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Hello they good morning, Peter. I say thank you very

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Speaker 5: much for being on the radio here with Jeans. Wonderful.

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Speaker 5: My question is Victory Highway going through Maples Hill and

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Speaker 5: Oakland that's in Boroughbille it is and rough. What is

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Speaker 5: the anythings in playing and the planning on that.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm not sure on that particular stretcher road,

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Speaker 2: but let me get let me get my information from

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Speaker 2: my folks and our report back next week on what

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Speaker 2: the timing of the repaving of that area is going

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you to follow up to get you the specifics.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to listening, it's coming up on eight to thirty.

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Speaker 1: Pter's going to stay with us. We have to get

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Speaker 1: to the the follow ups too, right now, Bill's got

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Speaker 1: your news at the bottom of the hour.

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Speaker 4: All right, final two calls Prince Europe First Princeton grantson.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead.

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Speaker 11: Yes, Good morning, Jane, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Peter morning, Prince, good morning.

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Speaker 9: Hey.

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Speaker 11: My my concern is this at the job locked plaza

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Speaker 11: on Elwood Avenue, on the exit side, the far right

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Speaker 11: hand side, the signal lights. The right hand lane is

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Speaker 11: And I've seen it so many times where people in

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Speaker 11: people are trying to turn into the plaza are confused

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Speaker 11: and peeping the horns and getting an argument. So I

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Speaker 11: think the light should be removed from the exit lane.

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Speaker 1: Peter, you know, he makes a point. I was just

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Speaker 1: stare the other day. I had to go in there

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Speaker 1: for something. And you know what else, It's like that

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Speaker 1: at the at the TJ Max and NK Not the

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Speaker 1: one in Kwan's that the one before that, and it

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Speaker 1: used to be like that by Ann and Hope by

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Speaker 1: the airport, some kind of crazy entrance. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it is, so something's not right.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Yeah, well you know what, I'll have all

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Speaker 2: free places checked out to see what we can do

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Speaker 2: to make it less confusing. Yes, I'm familiar with those locations,

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Speaker 2: and yes, that lighting configuration can be confusing, but thanks

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Speaker 2: for the head up, and uh, we'll we'll get we'll

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Speaker 2: take we'll get some eyes on that and see what

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Speaker 2: we can do to make it less confusing there.

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Speaker 11: Okay, gentlemen, have a fine.

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Speaker 1: Game, thanks, Prince. Next caller, you've got, last caller Jim

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Speaker 1: and Warwick Jim go.

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Speaker 7: Emory g good on. I got a lot of light

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Speaker 7: Boy one seventeen of CommonWell brand spank in the road

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Speaker 7: with brand spanking new smart technology not working because obviously

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Speaker 7: the people are not smart enough to state.

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Speaker 3: So could we send it back to school, maybe give

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Speaker 3: me some more training.

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Speaker 1: That's a schecky green calling in for you, Peter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll check it out and we'll report backing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna be on the follow up list. I've

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Speaker 1: got the one from last week, Peter, let's go over it.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: For the sake of expediency, I'm gonna we're gonna alternate

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Speaker 1: because I can handle the number one. Jim from Providence said,

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Speaker 1: can you please address the signal timing on Elmwood Avenue

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Speaker 1: at Root ten in Providence to improve traffic flow onto

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Speaker 1: Number two ross from Coventry one, the Maple Valley Road

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Speaker 1: Road and Coventry will be done. The answer of Michaelangelo is.

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Speaker 2: Maple Valley Road Bridge replacement is currently on winter shutdown.

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Speaker 2: That contractor shuts it down during the winter, but the

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Speaker 2: schedule on that one had to be extended. When they

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Speaker 2: were digging the foundations, they found underground some unforeseen ledge

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Speaker 2: and rocks down there that they had to deal with.

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Speaker 2: And because it goes over a stream, there was an

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Speaker 2: the good news is construction will resume in the bring

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Speaker 2: and by the fall we'll have that bridge finished and

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Speaker 1: Rich from Bristol requested improved signage and striping along Pleasant

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Speaker 1: Valley Parkway in Providence. Rich that's the City of Providences jurisdiction.

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Speaker 1: They have contacted the city on your behalf. However, you

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Speaker 1: can contact them as well. What a smile. You always say,

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Speaker 1: to the City of Providence. P do you want to

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Speaker 1: add to that? And we got that covered.

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Speaker 2: No, our folks coordinated with them, will refer this caller

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Speaker 1: Tom from Providence shared concerns about signal timing issues after

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Speaker 2: Yes, Westminster Street, this also is the City of Providence

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Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, to study the optimization of

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Speaker 1: Right now, A little busy with snow Day from Warren

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Speaker 1: wondered when Main Street and Warren going into Bristol would

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Speaker 2: Yes, what's going on there is what we've been trying

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Speaker 2: to do on all of our projects, have the utility companies,

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Speaker 2: We're scheduled to begin resurfacing of the segment between Main

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Speaker 2: be out there doing the curbing, the sidewalks, the drainage,

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Speaker 1: I'll take the next one marked and Portsmouth wants a

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Speaker 1: signal toonic adjustment to favor those traveling on one fourteen

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Speaker 1: Corey's Lane. Portsmouth, Abbey and Portsmouth answer is, we sent

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Speaker 1: the engineers, they looked at it. Nothing is going to

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Speaker 1: Sorry to disappoint you, that's the answer. Paul from NK

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Speaker 1: wants a signal tonic adjustment to provide more time for

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Speaker 2: Answer is yes, our folks agreed with Paul and they

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Speaker 1: Okay, that concludes the services. If you can get a

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Speaker 1: dot dot net. Peter, I know you're concerned with freezing

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Speaker 1: keeping Mark Seerles thought he didn't say this. It's a

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Speaker 1: possibility that it might blow further out and we catch

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Speaker 1: I know you've got your own meteorologist. What do you

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Speaker 1: then we'll let you go to work.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think his thinking of lines with marks, it's

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Speaker 2: northeaster is that if they stall in an area offshore

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Speaker 2: that we would get. So we're watching this closely. This

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Speaker 2: our eye on it and we'll watching it. We'll address

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Speaker 2: will adjust our strategy during the next few days on

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Speaker 2: how to get the snow off the roads accordingly. Meantime. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: the temperatures at night in particularly going to be below

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Speaker 2: conditions that even with the treatment we put down, it

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Speaker 2: becomes ineffective at those temperatures. So just as giving folks

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Speaker 2: the heads up when you're driving at night or early morning,

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Speaker 2: early rush hour, you might encounter some challenging icing conditions.

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Speaker 2: Just be aware of them and drive a little more slowly.

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Speaker 2: Account for some additional commute time. Drive a little more

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Speaker 2: slowly and cautiously at night in early morning.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Peter, thanks, talk to you after the storm and

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Speaker 1: if not, next Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Gene. You have a good weekend. Be safe.

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Speaker 1: Eight