Dear Mr. Mayor:

I came to your office recently to personally follow-up on my numerous unanswered letters, and to make a future appointment concerning the on-going Narragansett Blvd. paving issues those letters address. The road has been in major disrepair for nearly

40 years,

the last eight years under your administration.

Instead, I was met by Jeff Barone, Director of Constituent Affairs, and Robert Coupe, City Administration Director, who proceeded to rattle off the usual reasons why there is no plan to pave the rickety, unsafe 0.2 mile of boulevard between Bluff St. and Sefton Dr., despite the fact that your own Engineering Department Survey reports the road substantially below standard. Neither official would allow me to make the future appointment that brought me to your office that day.

For more than a year my neighbors and myself have written letters, emails, testified at a City Council meetings, and spoken to numerous city officials; all with the same lack of responsiveness. The answer is always the same, basically inaction, and with no legitimate reason why reasonable repairs cant be made. Ken Mason, Director of Public Works actually told me that repaving Narragansett Blvd. would only encourage speeding.

Mr. Mayor, you will soon be leaving office to assume the governorship. However, I am wary that if your vision for the state has no greater leadership than the poor record of road neglect in Edgewood, I fear your state leadership will not measure up.

Come on, Mr. Mayor, you were a Trump supporter. Let’s make Edgewood great again.

Lets repair one of the most heavily trafficked, bumpy roads in one of the city’s most iconic neighborhoods. During Reconstruction, it took the U.S. only 10 years to lay the first transcontinental railroad track – more than 3,000 miles.

Yet, 150 years later, Cranston taxpayers, who recently approved a $20 million highway improvement bond, cant get 0.2 miles of road paved because it would only encourage speeding?

Surely, a very poor legacy to leave as you seek higher office.

Frank Justin

Sefton Dr.

Cranston