Mayor Platt,

I just set-up a watch area for you in Cherry Hill Mall.
It looks like you were only being made aware of issues in the other townships.

If you want to send us a list of the townships you were receiving alerts from: team@seeclickfix.com

I want the road fixed right away. The repairs in the past have not worked for more than a month. My tires pick up the tar and the stones fly all over the place. I'm a senior citizen and with the taxes I pay, I don't think that's too much to ask.

This has been an eyesore & disaster area for years! I've had to have front end alignment on my car several times because of this mess. Got to be one of the worst roads in SJ.

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Mayor Platt - Please fix our neighborhood's roads! This section of Overbrook is one of the most heavily traveled roads in our neighborhood - everyone uses it to enter Colwick when coming from the mall area. And not only is Overbrook awful, but the first section of Media between Overbrook and Ambler roads are just as awful! We have been complaining about these two sections of roads for years, and all that is ever done is filling them in with stones. Well, about a week after they are filled in, the holes are back and now we have to worry about kicking up the stones and hitting people out walking when we drive by. Not to mention the damage that is done to our cars! Please DO SOMETHING about these streets! It gives an awful impression of Cherry Hill!

my kids and i live in colwick. we love our neighborhood! after the terrible fall on media, i am writing to express my concern! this road is in horrible condition! aside from the wear and tear on our cars, our bodies are going to be hurt! many colwick residents walk, jog, and ride these roads. this section of road is one of the most commonly used. please consider this as a high priority and fix our roads!

I too live in Colwick and am sick of the condition of Overbrook Drive. There are so many potholes now that we can no longer avoid them. There is no driving around the holes when they cover the width of the entire street. Stones kick up everywhere and ricochet off bottoms of our cars leaving damage in their wake. And heaven help the people who dare to walk down the road while a car is driving by - you will absolutely get hit with flying stones. It's disgusting that we could pay such amazingly high taxes and have roads in this condition in our very own neighborhood.

Mayor Platt, we implore you to fix this problem. Thank you.

Mayor Platt, As residents of Colwick, we are appalled to see the neglect of the roads in our community. We are paying high taxes, and take good care of our homes - but many of the roads are true eyesores - and dangerous! We, as well as our neighbors ask that you please fix (not just patch) our roads!

The roads is our neighborhood are disgusting considering the taxes we pay. They've doubled in the ten years I've been here. I have replaced the entire front end on my Explorer. I think those SUVs are made for these conditions and it still has been ruined!! I would be embarrassed to say I was Mayor and have people see what has happened to Cherry Hill Roads on your watch. Please make the effort, find the money and fix our roads. Haven't we saved a lot of money with the green initiatives??

Mayor Platt,

Please hear our concern for Overbrook & Media Roads in Colwick. The unavoidable potholes are a disgrace and a hazard to the many walkers, joggers and children on bikes who use these main neighborhood roads all seasons of the year. The stone-fill only serves as a temporary band aid and it sounds like a hail storm when your vehicle drives over them. Make the wise investment to fix them right the first time instead of wasting the time of our public works crew again and again throwing more stones in ever-growing pot holes.

Its a terrible first impression of one of Cherry Hill's oldest and finest neighborhoods!

Another picture of the extent of the damage; they're absolutely unavoidable.

We don't need band-aids over the pot holes on Overbrook and Media in Colwick we need the road re-surfaced. It's a hazard and a disgrace to have our roads, main roads into Colwick, in such condition.

You have already repaved the other end of Media a couple of years ago. For some strange reason, you stopped in the middle of Media. The other end of Media is horrible, especially near Media and Ambler. Full of rocks and is always being filled in with more. They only last about a month!! If you turn into our development off of Maple onto Kent, Media is nice and new and smooth, until you get about half way down. Its like you have hit a different town. PLEASE fix our roads!!!!!!!

Mayor Platt

I have lived here for over 30 years. I have called the city street office the past 4 or 5 years to have Media
Rd repaired. We see the city come a put stones with tar in the holes which are gone in a week. These stones get carried onto my driveway only to ruin it.
My driveway is at the foot of the holes on Media.
MR MAYOR IT IS TIME TO FIX OVERBROOK DR AND MEDIA

We had hoped you would show up at our Halloween parade, as you have in other years, but there was no election this year so you didn't need to come for votes. I bet your street is perfect and your neighborhood as well. Come on Mr Mayor. You have our outrageous taxes. Now take care of us

I have to say I am sympathetic to budgets and understand times are tough, but our beautiful neighborhood is disgraced by its streets. It is to the point where it can damage cars and the loose fill that gets used creates even more of a mess. I have not been to every residential street in Cherry Hill, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that there are none worse than Overbrook and Media.

For some reason, half of the streets were repaved a few years back and are beautiful. Now its time to finish the job. Please stop ignoring the neighborhood aside from the years you need votes.

Overbrook and Media are a disgrace to our neighborhood. They need to be fixed immediately.

A POOR entrance to such a nice area, COLWICK.

Let's see our High Tax dollars work.

Another picture looking North on Overbrook Dr not too far from the intersection.Taxes in Camden are much lower than Cherry Hill but you'd be hard-pressed to find ANY road in Camden that looks this bad! Our home values are definitely affected by this situation...

Mr Mayor,

please take a ride over or have the Director of Public Works come and look at the two roads mentioned here. I live in Colwick and the condition of these two roads is getting worse every day. We're not talking about one or two small potholes, we're talking about literally dozens and dozens. These two roads which are very heavily traveled have gotten so bad I actually avoid them and take a longer route to get in and out of Colwick.
Thank you for your anticipated attention to this matter.

Mr. Mayor,

Patch upon patch just doesn't work anymore!
it's time to repave this section and a similar section located on Media Rd. I'm sure the cost of resurfacing is much cheaper than a potential lawsuit as the result of an accident due to the extremely poor road conditions!

Fix our roads Mr. Mayor. It is dangerous for the many walkers, joggers and children who enjoy our beautiful neighborhood each day. Surely some of our tax money can be used to repair these roads.

Picture of Media Rd.
In a community that takes such pride in their landscaping blemished roads such as this, "Media Road", make you wonder! In this pic you can see the previous patches & roadside gravel & stones that are left behind, that's why they need to be done right & repaved, not patched. If we are late paying our taxes we'd be penalized; the township should be held responsible for this mess & be penalized or held accountable also...

I am tired of trying to dodge the terrible street conditions on Media Road and Overbrook Rd. Someday it is going to cause an accident because of all the weaving having to be done by us drivers. With the high taxes we pay in our township this matter should be taken care of! Please fix our roads!

Please publicly announce a commitment to repave these road sections in early spring 2010.

This is just what we all wanted; more stone & tar patchwork along with promissory notes. If the residents of Colwick refused to pay their taxes until the township upheld their promise to do the job right, we would face foreclosure & all of us would lose our homes to a sheriff's sale. Years ago these roads were all cement, then someone got the bright idea to cover the cement with a couple of inches of asphalt; we've been paying BIG bucks for that mistake for years now! Every year now they show up & do their magic with the patchwork & it costs all of us a bundle in the long run; they don't do this crap for free you know. Our taxes keep rising & the quality of service keeps going down. They even stopped picking up our trash 2x's a week like they used to in the summer months! Something stinks in Cherry Hill & it's not the trash on a hot summer night...

I ride my bike almost every morning at 6:30 AM. I go west
on Media and turn left on Overbrook. There is only a small path in two sections of Media that I am able to ride without hitting pot holes and that is on the wrong side of the road.
It is very dangerous to ride on the streets in the neighborhood either due to pot holes or depressions. The depressions are where asphalt has been used to patch where the utility companies have dug and not repaired the road properly.
In October my wife contacted the Cherry Hill Township and asked when would the roads be re-surfaced. She was told her the schedule was:
Overbrook 2011
Lenape 2014
Media 2017

Cherry Hill re-surfaced four blocks of Media a couple of
years ago. Not only re-surfaced but replaced the curbs
sidewalks and planted new trees at no cost to any homeowner.

Now the rest of Colwick needs a facelift, and we can't even get the roads fixed.

Mr Mayor,

As a resident of the Colwick neighborhood, I am concerned that the poor road conditions on the primary entrance, Overbrook Rd, is diminishing the charm and quality of the neighborhood. As an older neighborhood, it needs immediate city services to maintain a community with a quality of living living on par with the newer neighborhoods. I appreciate the town's challenge to fund competing priorities and so recommend that the neighborhood's streets be reassessed which most likely will support an accelerated repair schedule beginning with the repair of Overbrook Rd. for early this year. I am most appreciative of the past good road repair on Media Rd. 2008, but the current "patch as you go" is not keeping pace with the roads rate of deterioration. Thank you for supporting our neighborhood in maintaining its quality of living.

Respectfully Submitted,
Reinhard Zapfe
19 Lenape Rd

Mr Mayor,
As residents of Colwick, we are appalled to see the neglect of the roads in our community. My children can't ride their bikes on the sidewalk because most of them are so bad, but now our streets are bad...You tell me where our children can ride their bikes and get some exercise. We are paying high taxes lets but our money to work in our own neighborhood, not just yours.

They are out right this very moment filling in the holes at the corner of Media and Ambler!!!!!

Dear Bernie,
This issue is NOT going to go away! As long as any Colwick resident feels that all you are doing is sweeping this under the rug and it will be forgotten because of your temporary patches; you're wrong. The issue here at hand is not the temporary fix of several potholes, it's the condition of the roads in Colwick overall. We are a very strong community that believe that we are being shortchanged by a township that charges us highly for the privilege of even living here! It's a disgrace to look out the front windows & believe what's out there! These streets in this neighborhood are a DISGRACE!!! For you to even have the nerve to send your street crew out & slap us in the face again with this tar & stone method of repair is an insult to ALL of us. To think that you would consider fixing Media Rd in 2017 is a disaster in itself! These are main arteries in & out of our community & they look like HELL!
You make sure that you include little innuendos in our tax statements that suggest that these taxes aren't final & may be going up in the 2nd half of the year; whatta joke! We're NOT getting what we deserve & pay for now & you're thinking about raising them!!! Social Security froze our incomes this year because of the recession & yet you are considering a raise in taxes! Where's that money supposed to come from; robbing banks?
I've been here for 40 years & I can't remember the last time that the streets of Colwick looked 1/2 way descent! According to 1 comment on this dispute, you don't intend to repave Media Rd until 2017; are you CRAZY! This is a disaster area NOW! If you think that we as a community will put up with this for another 7 years. you're NUTS! If we were to let our grass grow over a certain height & blight our neighborhood, you'll send someone out to present us with a citation to improve conditions or face a fine or penalty imposed by the township for not living up to their standards, but you are allowed to let our streets go to hell & no one is at fault! This must be some sort of a joke on your behalf!
There are a lot of senior citizens in Colwick that have been here for many years & we all have the right to vote; think about that... Many will probably be in nursing homes by 2017 but we still have a voice in our community now...

I agree that the only way to fix this right is to repave Overbrook Dr. & Media Rd. Unfortunately, most of the senior citizens of Colwick that have been asking the township for this for years while paying exuberant taxes, will be dead by the time this happens

Colwick streets still look terrible! The quick fixes have to go or our taxes should be lowered because we the tax payers aren't getting what we want or deserve...

Acknowledged by Cherry Hill InJersey.

Now that the snow is beginning to recede ALL of the potholes are back! This means more quick fixes have to be done at the taxpayers expense! They almost lasted a month!

Jus let the township buy the Colwick residents new Hummers to drive on thru the issues, this will keep it quiet for awhile, and possibly end this conversation that can't possibly be fixed until spring at the earliest!

You're suggestion that we equip ourselves with Hummers to navigate this neighborhood is right on; that's exactly what they use in Baghdad too!

This is Media Rd, 3/2/10, today, less that 1 month after more temporary repairs! We need these streets repaved correctly.

Overbrook Dr today, 3/2/10. Compare before & after shots! We're just throwing taxpayer's money away on the tar & stone fixes!