Save A Life, part 2

VosIzNeias is asking for calls to get those cellphone twoers installed on a stretch of NY state highway that has seen at least two recent deaths due to lack of cellphone coverage. The request is to call now:

Mr. Michael Balboni
Deputy Secretary of Public Safety for the State of New York
518 474 3522

VIN got some heavy press coverage for this campaign in the New York Daily News and in the Albany Times Union:

An aide to the Spitzer administration’s public safety czar, Michael Balboni, said she has received “hundreds” of phone calls today from people who say they want cell towers installed on the Northway.

Most of the calls are originating from Brooklyn, the aide said, although some are coming from Montreal.

Many of the callers have Jewish last names, which stands to reason, since the Orthodox community has been pushing hard on this issue since the death in January of one of their own.

Alfred Langner was on his way back from a wedding in Montreal with his wife, Barbara, when his car slid off the Northway in Essex County and wasn’t discovered for more than 30 hours. His wife watched him die of hypothermia because she couldn’t get a signal to call for help.

Today’s campaign is being championed by an Orthodox Jewish blogger who has made this issue something of a cause celebre.

Comments

[Modern Jew]

b7Oh yes I will call but I willinsist they don't take calls on Shabbat or on Yom Tov if the caller is frum-in other words no non-kosher calls from the Kosher Nostra while they are outta site

[mayer]

I called, we all have to do it, they said they got all day calls so they had to switch to a special line.

Go Shlomah Shamos you rock!!

Keep it up every one let's join Vos Iz Neias and do the same for the nashumah.

Let's make tomorrow another day of 100's of calls.

Thanks

[Isa]

??
Huh maybe I am stupid or something
Call a public official to get a [private] cellphone tower erected? A cellphone tower is erected with private funds and it usually only has one brand of service per tower e.g ATT tower, Verizphone tower etc. SO even if a cellphone tower IS erected will YOUR brand of cellphone connect to that tower? Possibly NOT, One needs perhaps up to FOUR cellphone towers before one has a resonable chance of getting a connection.
Before my move to Texas I traveled the roads of deserted Interstate in places like North Dakota and I did it before cellphones.
Don't tailgate don't speed

[Isa]

??
Huh maybe I am stupid or something
Call a public official to get a [private] cellphone tower erected? A cellphone tower is erected with private funds and it usually only has one brand of service per tower e.g ATT tower, Verizphone tower etc. SO even if a cellphone tower IS erected will YOUR brand of cellphone connect to that tower? Possibly NOT, One needs perhaps up to FOUR cellphone towers before one has a resonable chance of getting a connection.
Before my move to Texas I traveled the roads of deserted Interstate in places like North Dakota and I did it before cellphones.
Don't tailgate don't speed

[Isa]

Now I understand why two entries appear.
I hit the "Post" button once and nothing happens (maybe I didn't really hit it)so I hit it twice and wait type in the anti spammer code once and then I see my two entries