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May 19, 2008
When Video Advocacy Gets Government to Fix Roads
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As powerful as the written word can be, sometimes it takes the extra help of a video and a little push by the "fourth estate" to get things done in Southern California. In today's weekly Road Sage column by Steve Hymon, he features Rich Allen who made a nearly 10-minute video to post on YouTube that highlighted the terrible pothole conditions on the 60 Freeway (video embedded below).
Then the Riverside Press-Enterprise ran a story about it. In turn, both KCBS and KCAL picked up on it (same companies). "Within two weeks of the video hitting the Internet, Caltrans -- one of the agencies Allen had been badgering -- repaved that part of the freeway," Hymon wrote.
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This is community action at its best. Thanks to him, it didnt take a lost life (or two or three) for something to get done. Great move!
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Can they please do this for Alameda Street in between 7th street and the entrance to the 10? It would really help out the undercarriage and clutch of my car...
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I can't believe they finally repaved that stretch of Riverside Drive at the Fashion Square in Sherman Oaks! Those potholes were almost impossible to drive around without swerving into oncoming traffic.