getting City tree trimmed?

[jd-science.livejournal.com]

Looking for advice... I put in a request to 311 over two months ago to have a City tree in front of my house trimmed. I've followed up 3 times to 311 and once to an individual DPW employee. The only responses I've gotten are that my request has been sent to DPW.

Has anyone ever had a situation like this and dealt with it successfully? It's apparently not allowed to have a private company come trim the tree, so I'm a bit stuck. 311 has generally been helpful, but in this case I'm getting pretty frustrated.

Thanks!

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[gruene.livejournal.com]

Also, at the risk of being "old Somerville", you might want to try calling your ward alderman. Part of their job is to expedite these sorts of things.

[jd-science.livejournal.com]

I admit, I did loop in my alderman. Going to give it a few more days and see if that DPW drive-by results in any action...