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The County Road 19 Construction Project!

The upcoming road work on CR 19, Waverly Avenue , is the direct result of a three year campaign of cleverly orchestrated emails, originating from the “Patchogue Beautification Committee (PBC)”. (A committee empowered by the Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce (GPCC).

The work on CR 19 may also includes removing the fence at Patchogue Lake , and turning the area, into a pedestrian mall that would flaunt our lake instead of hide it! This Patchogue Lake portion of the project requires the cooperation and involvement of Patchogue Village at some level.

If this County Road 19 project were “left alone,” it is a certainty, that it would not have been implemented. The road construction portion of this project did indeed have the dynamic support of the PBC!

It is always a pleasure to watch “Master Tennis Players,” interact with skilled and deliberate actions, in order to win the game! It is also a pleasure to watch equally skilled merchants and municipalities, act out their own rituals that very closely resemble the strategy that one would use in a tennis match!

A series of over Thirty, short emails were played back and forth between the Patchogue Beautification Committee, and the County of Suffolk (COS).

The game started with Philip Butler ”lobbing” an email at the County of Suffolk . Now a lob in a tennis game is meant to distract your opponent so that you can again attack, before he could figure out what happened! Keep in mind that these emails usually had no more than ten words in them. These emails were designed to be short and concise, using the old “Kiss” Theorem, “Keep it simple stupid,” as their template! There is wisdom in the old ways!

After about eight emails were sent back and forth, the county started to use a well known Tennis technique called Shadowing! Shadowing is “going through the motions, without actually doing anything!” The PBC responded with an email that resembled a “Drop Shot” that is commonly used in a tennis game. A “Drop Shot” will land at your feet, where it is impossible to use any countermeasures.

Somewhere around email number Twenty five, the county sent back a few emails that behaved like a “Tennis Slice Serve.” A slice Serve in “Tennis” is sent with a spin on it; the intent of the spin is to have it change direction, when it hits your section of the court! Yep! This strategy works for both Tennis, and emails! Now this was not enough to deter our Patchogue Beautification Committee!

At email Twenty Eight the Patchogue Beautification Committee brought out the “Big Guns,” by expediting a “Tennis Smash Shot.” They selectively inserted this CR 19 issue, into emails that were sent to The County of Suffolk, which were about completely different subjects.

In “Tennis” “Love” means zero or nothing! This issue if left alone, by itself, would have yielded a score of “Thirty/Love.” Because of the efforts of our Patchogue Beautification Committee, the score is Thirty One/ Thirty, in our favor! We won the contest with the County of Suffolk, and CR 19 construction will begin on April 20, 2009.

The second stage of this project that involves Patchogue Lake, and the Village of Patchogue, is still considered by many, to be worthwhile, and deserving of consideration.

Hey! It’s nice to win once in a while!

Anonymous said...
Unfortunately, most roads I have driven on that have been resurfaced lately, appear to be deteriorating much faster than older road surfaces. Let's hope this is not the case here.

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