ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A growing sinkhole on a residential street has a northside woman fed up with the run-around at City Hall.
Jane Scott lives in 800 block of McLaran Avenue, where she says a two-foot deep sinkhole "the size of a car" has been growing for three years, despite her repeated calls for help to City Hall.
"Every time I call, this same gentleman comes out and all they do is put a steel plate over the hole and the hole continuously grows," Scott said.
Scott says the pavement beneath her parked car is now collapsing into the hole, and she's afraid to get behind the wheel to try to drive it away.
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Earlier, she says, a commercial vehicle almost got sucked into the hole.
"The UPS truck has fallen off into the hole, and the plywood is the only thing that saved the UPS truck," Scott said.
Scott says her calls for help have brought visits from MSD, the City Water Department and the City Street Department. But each time, she says, they all blame it on someone else.
Scott says she's called her alderman Lisa Middlebrook and Aldermanic President Lewis Reed, but isn't getting anyone to call her back.
On Tuesday she was busy trying to call for a tow truck to pull her car to safety, not wanting to get inside the car and have it fall deeper in the hole.
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