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Public Advocate Extraordinaire...JK, but seriously (Updated 6/23)

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I have run into a lot of folks during my day job who complain about speeding vehicles--even school buses--down their quaint side-street residence.  Because I'm assessing the curb ramps, they assume that I'm responsible for additional measures of safety, such as speed bump installation; however, I am not.  But, given my knowledge of public relations and my varied experience in composing documents of all sorts--some even of the legal variety (by legal I mean formal looking contracts that only Judge Judy would entertain, no offense and all praise to her prominence)--I could get the ball rolling in a certain direction. Upon the third or so person, I started thinking of ways we could force the government's hand at addressing this seemingly ubiquitous city-wide issue.  During my conversation with this elderly gentleman (I will call him Mr. X, not to be confused with the professor).  I suggested to him that he acquire names and signatures around his neig...