Trying to pin down some information on the construction on Fair Oaks from about Woodbury to — well, north as far the eye can see, Altadenablog attempted to call the County Services Toll-Free Help Line (linked thru the Altadena Town Council page).  The 1-888-924-HELP line only gets an ad for another phone number, and then bounces you to ATT, where you’re chastised for not making a call.  We’ll keep trying, but a help line needs to be helpful!

Same results when we called Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Works 24 hour line on their website — same cheery female voice promoting another phone line.  Out of curiosity, we called the number she was promoting.  When we connected, there was a bad 70’s porno soundtrack and another recorded female voice who began, "Hey, sexy guy …"  We didn’t continue, but we bet we weren’t going to get road closure information from her.  Your county tax dollars at work, sexy guy.