{"id":552,"date":"2012-08-22T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/valdosta-lmig-resurfacing-and-transparency.html"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:09:42","slug":"valdosta-lmig-resurfacing-and-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/valdosta-lmig-resurfacing-and-transparency.html","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta LMIG resurfacing and transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe City of Valdosta almost wins for transparency
\nabout some upcoming road resurfacing work,
\nexcept the details are in some Windows-only non-web format.\n<\/p>\n

20 August 2012,
\n
\nIn the City This Week, Aug. 20-25, 2012,<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAug. 20: LMIG Work Continues Today.
\n
\n<\/a>
\nThe street resurfacing made
\npossible through a
\n
\nLocal Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG)<\/a>
\nwill continue Aug. 20 with the removal and replacement of curb and
\ngutter on a dozen designated streets in the city. Road resurfacing
\nof these streets is scheduled to begin on Aug. 27.
\n
\nClick here<\/a> for
\nmore information.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThat leads to
\n
\nProject News and Updates<\/a>
\nwhich has a link
\n
\nLMIG Resurfacing Schedule and Desiginated Areas<\/a>
\nwhich gets:\n<\/p>\n

\nYou have chosen to open<\/p>\n

\nLMIG<\/strong>
\n
\nwhich is a: BIN file (63.9 KB)
\n
\nfrom: http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would you like to save this file?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAnd that’s actually a ZIP file containing a bunch of XML files.
\nWe should trust Valdosta’s website enough to be secure
\nthat we should download random ZIP files?
\nFail!\n<\/p>\n

\nGretchen decoded that ZIP bomb and sent it in plain text, which I include here.
\nMy question is: why didn’t Valdosta simply put it on the web that way
\nto start with?\n<\/p>\n

\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n

\nStreet Resurfacing \u2014 The street resurfacing made possible through
\na Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG) will begin the
\nweek of August 20th with the removing and replacement of curb and
\ngutter in designated areas with road resurfacing to begin on August
\n27th.  This work will take approximately five weeks to complete
\n(weather permitting) and will consist of curb and gutter repair (if
\napplicable), base repair, milling of existing asphalt, leveling,
\nroot removal new asphalt road course and other related work. 
\nMotorists should use extreme caution and pay close attention to
\nboth vehicular and pedestrian traffic while driving in these areas.
\nReames and Sons Construction Company will be working in the areas
\nlisted below during the five week period.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Week 1 \u2014 August 27<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Lake Park Road \u2014<\/td>\n(Old Statenville to Bunche Drive)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southwood Drive \u2014<\/td>\n(Morningside Drive to Bethune Street)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marion Street \u2014<\/td>\n(Vollotton Drive to E. Moore Street)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 2 \u2014 September 3<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Euclid Street \u2014<\/td>\n(Forrest Street to end)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northside Drive \u2014<\/td>\n(Forrest Street to Jaycee Shack Road)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 3 \u2014 September 10<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Habersham Road \u2014<\/td>\n(Bemiss Road to Clayton Drive)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brookfield Drive \u2014<\/td>\n(Murray Road to Justin Drive)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 4 \u2014 September 17<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Country Club Road \u2014<\/td>\n(197\u2019 north of Noble Way to Trotters Way)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hillendale Road \u2014<\/td>\n(Rolling Road to Pebblewood Drive)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Week 5 \u2014 September 25<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Slater Street \u2014<\/td>\n(College Street to end)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N Toombs Street \u2014<\/td>\n(Magnolia Street to W Gordon Street)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Valdosta almost wins for transparency about some upcoming road resurfacing work, except the details are in some Windows-only non-web format. 20 August 2012, In the City This Week, Aug. 20-25, 2012, Aug. 20: LMIG Work Continues Today. The street resurfacing made possible through a Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG) will continue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,2,3,449,54],"tags":[8805,8701,8699,8702,1180,12,7,8700,8767,6,8726],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gdot","category-government","category-transparency","category-transportation","category-valdosta-city-council","tag-gdot","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-lake","tag-lmig","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}