Tampa Adult Entertainment: Hyde Park street’s squeaky wheel gets results
Monday, March 8th, 2010Seminole is a nondescript two-block street that connects bustling Wood Avenue and Cummins Highway in Hyde Park. For years, no one paid it much mind: not the drivers who zipped along it on their way somewhere else, not the troublemakers who loitered on sidewalks taking swigs from bottles, and not the city, which seemed to have forgotten it was there.
Residents had long kept quiet about the cracks in the sidewalks, the wayward chickens, even the suspected prostitutes who roamed the night.
But Seminole is silent no longer. Residents, calling themselves The Gatekeepers have become very noisy, capturing the attention, and cellphone number, of their city councilor, Rob Consalvo, and of City Hall. Suddenly, things are getting done. Sidewalks have been repaired and stop signs installed to slow drivers. Even the chickens that roamed the street clucking and leaving droppings in yards are gone.
See the full article from “Boston Globe”