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If Lakewood seems bumpier than any other town to you, you are right, While most of us that drive daily suffer from the potholes in the Lakewood streets, few of us have demanded that members of the Township Committee do something about it, and as far as I know they have done almost nothing to fix the problem, and Lakewood is probably the bumpiest town in Ocean County.
Hundreds of residents who drive on the roads, or head to BMG and use 6th street, 7th and 8th streets, from Princeton Ave until Private Way, are for years faced with the fact that the roads are full of potholes. BMG is the largest school in Lakewood; the minimum would be that all roads surrounding its campuses be properly paved yearly and lit properly to accommodate the few thousand students.
We have hakoras hatov for many things the committee did, but they need to do more to gain our full confidence.
A taxpaying resident just had to pay $775 dollars to repair his car after hitting a pothole on 4th street between Monmouth and Park Ave another road used by hundreds of residents.
Maybe the township should compensate residents that were damaged by the pothole roads in Lakewood.
To successfully sue the following must be proven:
That the public entity had actual or constructive notice of the dangerous condition in enough time to have corrected it before the accident.
That the measures taken by the public entity, or the failure to take any measures, in response to the dangerous condition were palpably unreasonable.
Also take into account the the judge is provided with the following guidelines:
A public entity like the defendant must constantly exercise its judgment whether to seek or to provide the resources necessary to hire personnel, buy or repair equipment, build or maintain facilities, and, in general, decide where, when and how to provide adequate governmental services. In exercising its judgment and making those choices, a public entity is frequently faced with competing demands, not all of which can be satisfied at once or perhaps at all. A public entity does not have the duty to do everything that might be done.
“Maybe the township should compensate residents that were damaged by the pothole roads in Lakewood.”
Only if the Rabbonim agree that such a proposal is proper in light of creating a Chillul Hashem
Only if the Rabbonim agree that such a proposal is proper in light of creating a Chillul Hashem
A Chillul Hashem is only made when someone isn’t following Halacha. Unless there is some Halachic reason why someone cannot sue a municipality for damages, there is no Chillul Hashem.
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