[Summit] Fw: National Grid phone no. for streetlights

[David Kolsky]

--- On Tue, 7/7/15, Albanese, Marisa <Marisa.Albanese at nationalgrid.com> wrote:

> From: Albanese, Marisa <Marisa.Albanese at nationalgrid.com>
> Subject: RE: [WaylandSquare] Streetdark census
> To: "David Kolsky" <davidjkolsky at yahoo.com>, "WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com" <WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 5:37 PM

> Hi David - this is a
> direct line to our call center. You will hear a few prompts.
> One will ask if you are reporting an outage and if you have
> an account number. Say no to that one and continue to street
> light outage where you can report the street and pole
> number.
> 
> -----Original
> Message-----

> From: David Kolsky [mailto:davidjkolsky at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 5:23 PM
> To: WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [WaylandSquare] Streetdark
> census
> 
> At the end of her
> reply to another report, Marisa Albanese, National
> Grid's R.I. "Manager, Customer and Community
> Management" (who spoke at our April 22nd meeting about
> the new pipe-laying), wrote this:
> 
> You may call this in to our contact center at
> any time- 800-322-3223
> 
> I
> haven"t tried (or don't recall trying) to call this
> number, so I don't know who or what answers, how it
> works, and what the likely effect will be.
> 
> Dave
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 7/7/15, Anna Browder anna.browder at verizon.net
> [WaylandSquare] <WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re:
> [WaylandSquare] Streetdark census
>  To: WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com
>  Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 11:17 AM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    
>    Back then, my electric bill gave a number to
> call
>  at Narragansett Electric.  What
> number do you call?  City
>  Hall?
>  On Jul 7, 2015, at
>  11:02 AM,
> Suzanne Kelley skelley at rcfp.com
>  [WaylandSquare] wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  I call the City
>   and they come right away
> 
> 
>  From: WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com
>  [mailto:WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com]
> 
> 
>  Sent:
> Monday, July 06, 2015 9:18 AM
> 
>  To: WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com
> 
>  Subject: Re: [WaylandSquare]
> Streetdark
>  census
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Must have pole
>  numbers
> 
> 
> 
>  Sent from my iPad
> 
> 
> 
>  On Jul 6, 2015, at 7:52 AM, Anna Browder
>  anna.browder at verizon.net
> [WaylandSquare] <WaylandSquare at yahoogroups.com>
>  wrote:
> 
> 
>  Good move!  I hope
>  National
> Grid responds faster than Narragansett Electric did
>  to my reports.  In one case, the light
> continued to flicker
>  for three years after
> my first report.
> 
> 
>  Of course, people
>  whose
> bedrooms face the street may welcome the darkened
>  lights, if not the flickering ones.
> 
>  On Jul 6, 2015, at
>  7:14 AM, David Kolsky
>  davidjkolsky at yahoo.com
> [WaylandSquare] wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  I hope
> 
> everyone had a good holiday weekend (only enhanced by the
>  U.S. women soccer players winning their third
> World Cup on
>  Sunday).
> 
> 
> 
>  Being
> someone who (without wheels) walks a lot after dark
>  from meetings and shows, I've long noticed
> how many
>  streetlights are either flickering
> (cycling on and off) or
>  just completely
> dark.
> 
> 
> 
>  I'm making a list to send to National
> Grid's community
>  relations manager, and
> would appreciate any additional East
>  Side
> streetlights which you've noticed haven't been
>  functioning as they should. The list so far
> appears below my
>  signature.
> 
> 
> 
>  There has to be a better system than relying
> on residents or
>  travellers to report
> streetlight outages (just as relying on
> 
> property owners to clear snow from sidewalks has proven a
>  clear failure over the last two winters). For
> one thing,
>  many of the failed lights
>   are in business areas and wouldn't
> normally light up
>  (or fail to light up)
> during business hours. Those passing
> 
> through wouldn't know that there was a streetlight to
>  begin with.
> 
> 
> 
>  ¶ I
> mistakenly said that the Hope Street or Lippitt Park
>  farmers' market (and the Aug. 15 Summit
> Music Festival)
>  was on Sunday, It's
> held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on
>  Saturdays,
> and from 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays.
> 
> 
> 
>  Have a good
> week,
> 
> 
> 
>  Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> *************************************
> 
> 
> 
>  Failed or
> Flickering Streetlights (with pole numbers)
> 
> 
> 
>  Wayland Avenue:
> 
> 
> 
>  5 & 6 -
> between Medway & Angell
> 
>  10 - Adelphi
> 
> 
> 15 - Elton .
> 
>  17 - near
> University
> 
> 
> 
>  Orchard Avenue 1 near Wayland
> Ave.
> 
> 
> 
>  Humboldt Avenue between Wayland and Elton:
> 
> 
> 
>  13, 15, 16 & 16.5 (or 16 1/2)
> 
> 
> 
>  Irving Avenue
> 
> 
> 
>  14 - at
> Wayland
> 
>  17 - near Cole
> 
> 
> 
>  Cooke Street 14 near Angell
> 
> 
> 
>  Angell Street 17 at Stimson
> 
> 
> 
>  Ives Street 32 & 33 between Angell &
> Medway
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>      __._,_.___
> 
> 
> 
> 
>          Posted
> by: Anna Browder
>  <anna.browder at verizon.net>
> 
> 
> 
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