Friday afternoon Doreen Szymanski of the city’s Department of Transportation returned the message I left Wednesday, asking whether the city ever cleaned off its grungy street signs. (See my Wednesday posting, below.)
If you see grungy signs, she said, call the city’s 3-1-1 number to report it. “It’ll probably show up in my office,” she said, and she’d flag it to the attention of the city’s Operations Department.
But no, she said, there’s no system for cleaning the signs. When streets are repaved the workers routinely replace street signs that are older than two years, she said. But at the current pace of repaving, you might not want to rely on that, especially if the sign is getting unreadable.