Letters | ANOTHER PART OF THE BARRY GROSS STORY

RE YOUR recent article about prosecutor Barry Gross and all his career accomplishments:

That should include all the pain he put my grandparents through by putting my uncle, Nick Yarris, away for 22 years for an awful crime he didn't commit. He was released from death row two years ago with the help of his lawyer, Peter Goldberger, Barry Sheck from the Innocence Project and others.

Just how many other people are waiting to die for something they didn't do?

Jason Whalen, Essington

Broad St. snarl

Since August 2005, there's been road-narrowing street work on Broad between Glenwood and Cumberland, with no signs of the construction ever going to be done.

I've been trying to tally how many extra minutes I and thousnads of others have been stuck because of this mess every day, in comparison to the recent I-78 mess.

I figure I spend five to 12 minutes extra everyday in this traffic for an estimated total of 2,380 minutes since August 2005. Not to mention the danger of driving this actual stretch. Hey, guv, how about an apology for this mess?

Robert Cohan, Philadelphia

Hard-to-get ticket info

I work as a disc jockey at a local bar and was loading up my equipment recently at 2:30 a.m., temporarily parking in front of a hydrant.

By the time I noticed the ticket, it was blowing off my truck's windshield while I was going 55 mph. I called the Parking Authority two days later to see if in fact it was a ticket I was waving bye-bye to on I-95. They told me it takes five to seven days for that information to load into the system.

Don't they have the manpower to update a computer? By the time I found out I had a ticket (I called four times) it was the 10th day, which left me only five days to pay the fine. Thanks, Parking Authority, for the prompt service.

Steven Ciasullo, Philadelphia

Milton, meet reality

Milton Street makes me sick when I realize think that he's seriously thinking about running for mayor. If he's not making ridiculously childish racial remarks or getting indicted, then he's busy dealing with something as silly as traffic violations. Good old Milt needs to get a reality check and do this city a huge favor by moving out - Oh, wait, he's not even a resident anyway!

Brian Burkhardt, Philadelphia