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Philly, your 311 calls are so wild they just say "miscellaneous

Your 311 requests are wild or nah?

Listen, youse know I stay on top of what’s happening down at City Hall, especially what the regular folks are asking for. And I'm not even gonna hold you, the latest 311 request data is kinda wild. What’s number one on the list for folks calling in? “Miscellaneous.” Not one, not two, but so many requests that it just gets lumped into "Miscellaneous." Then right after that, another pile of "Miscellaneous" requests. What is that, Philly? Are we just calling about everything and nothing at the same time?

It’s like we got so many unique problems, they can’t even categorize 'em. And then, topping the charts right after that is a whole bunch of "Information Requests." Folks just wanna know what’s going on, or nah? That tells me people are trying to figure things out, and maybe the city ain’t making it easy. We also got "Hydrant Request" in there, which is kinda specific. Are we turning them on for fun, or is there a real issue with our wooder?

This jawn shows us that City Hall needs to dig deeper into what "Miscellaneous" actually means, or folks are just gonna keep calling about everything under the sun.

That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here.

— Keisha Robinson-Moyer (@kee_westphilly)

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