closed #193383
Excessive Growth
19th and N Wash.
- Case Date:
- 9/5/2024
Wet Garden at corner of 19th and N. Washington is overgrown with weeds. Looks horrible.
Wet Garden at corner of 19th and N. Washington is overgrown with weeds. Looks horrible.
I had my car predatorily towed by Tow Time Towing and Recovery on 22 May, I believe in the afternoon. I woke up this morning needing to get to work, and my vehicle was gone. I panicked and assumed it had been stolen only to find it had been towed due to failure to display a parking permit – despite the fact that the parking lot was nearly completely empty, and I was not obstructing any parking. Additionally, I was parked in my parking place, but after driving, I forgot to return my parking pass to the mirror. The pass was removed because it obstructs my view while driving. I have seen that the cap cost in Bloomington for towing is $135 and yet Tow Time has insisted I owe them $170 for the tow. After explaining the situation they said there was nothing to be done. I have since not been able to get to work due to my vehicle being gone so unexpectedly and will have to walk over two miles to the impound lot to pay to retrieve my predatorily impounded vehicle. There were no warnings I was in violation, and this has caused a considerable disruption to my work schedule and put a very significant financial strain on me given the unexpected and, in my opinion, excessive nature of the fine for what was not an illegal action and was little more than a small error in forgetting to re-display my parking pass. I would appreciate any assistance in this moving forward, and I hope by filing this, I can assist in the prevention of predatory impounding like this moving forward.
The painted lines on the south side of the intersection of W. Third St and S. Cory Lane are faded and unusable. North bound traffic often backs up due to left turning traffic taking both lanes. Please repaint them asap.
Please repaint the lane lines on the south side (on Cory Lane) of this intersection. Traffic backs up when cars do not use the left turn lane and park in the middle, because then no one is hitting the sensors.
The lane markers on the south side of the intersection are so faded that traffic often backs up from cars trying to turn left parking themselves in the middle of both north bound lanes. Please repaint these lane markers so that traffic will go into the correct lanes.
The lane marking lines are completely gone on Cory Lane, on the south side of the intersection with W. Third St. This is the fourth time I have reported this. No lines means that no one is in the correct lanes causing backups for cars wanting to turn right.
Ever since W. 3rd street was paved, the light at Cory Lane and W. 3rd stays green way too long for the one or two cars that need to turn left onto W. 3rd or go straight into Culvers. Let the pedestrians push the crosswalk button if they need 45 seconds to cross the road. But don't make us all suffer if there are no pedestrians and one car needs to turn. Shorten the light please.
While I appreciate the effort to create a memorial to the Somme Battle of 1916 along the west side of the 2000 block of S High St (see Townsend, the contractors), can I ask they at least try to be accurate in their depiction of the event. The layout of the random cut logs left to die as martyrs are clearly in opposition to the historical record. Try harder. [[This is an eyesore. Got it?]]
The green light is out on the signal at 7th and College. It is the signal that is facing East on 7th
There is a retaining wall located between the houses on S. Sweetbriar Circle and S. Henderson St. I realize that the wall is on the private property, but was wondering if the city had any details about how the wall was constructed or if there was a specific code that the builder was supposed follow in order for the city to permit the wall.