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Just text one of the keywords below to HOLMES (465637) and we'll remind you to move your car. That's it!
TOW CAMPUS - for OSU campus alerts
TOW HARRISON - for Harrison West alerts
TOW ITALIAN - for Italian Village alerts
TOW NEIL - for Neil Ave alerts
TOW GERMAN - for German Village alerts
TOW EASTGATE - for Eastgate Garden alerts
TOW BUSINESS - for Central Business District alerts
Alerts will be sent the day before and the morning of street-sweeping in each area.
Standard message charges apply
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About the Aficionados
We are two guys who hate tow trucks and remembering stuff. Yury Tsukerman and Vitaliy Levit are the brains behind this operation. Check out our respective domains:
Yury Tsukerman
Vitaliy Levit
Evangelists
Welcome Mattie Reitman, a committed and outspoken critic of the City towing policies.
Here’s an excellent flyer he put together:
And a letter to the Dispatch, “Towing companies like this time of year” (in fairness, here’s the towing company’s Nuremberg Defense, “Towing company just following rules“).
You can reach him by email at notowcolumbus (at) gmail.com.
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Press & blog coverage
- University District Campus Update
- The Lantern ("Texts sent as street sweeping reminders") + a bonus article on the co-working space where this was conceived
- NPR (WOSU) ("Street Sweeping Text-Based Alert System")
- Mobile Mammoth ("New SMS Service Keeps Tow Truck Away")
- Pat Snyder ("Texting: the new salvation?")
- jimmybuttons ("get text alerts for street sweeping days, etc. ingenious!")