The City of Oakland Public Works Department has received this issue. It is registered as service request #586780. Thank you, in advance, for your patience as we work through a backlog of pothole service requests. Unfortunately the City does not have enough funding to repave all streets in poor condition. With limited funding, our response to resurfacing requests is limited to minor pavement and pothole repairs only. Our Street Maintenance Department will assess your street and determine whether temporary measures might be appropriate. Please understand that this work may be limited to pothole or other minor repairs, and that we have many similar requests. We will do our best to respond in a timely manner. The backlog of streets in Oakland needing pavement currently is $435 million and growing.
At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm 5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates, or contact us directly at 510-615-5566.
That has to be one of the worst pothole accidents I have ever seen. I wonder how much that will cost the City? It would have been far far cheaper if they had just paved the street.
Merrimac, a small street with half as many residents and businesses just off Telegraph near 27th, has had numerous complaints of deep potholes (maybe three potholes, at the most near one end of the tiny loop). Oakland gave those complaints the same tired response. Yet, somehow their street has been repaired after only a few months. Why is there such blatant favoritism happening and why is Jingletown having to hold the short and of the stick?
Please fix the potholes - with the influx of monied peoples coming over from SF shouldn't we have an app for this already??? If we can get a little money maybe from the Brooklyn Basin people???
Oakland is getting Gas Tax money to fix potholes. There will be a blitz to fix potholes from 6/15-7/31. The money is now available, Public Works has decided we are not worthy of street repairs, even though our neighborhood has had a building boom from 2005-2009, increasing Oakland's property tax revenues by the MILLIONS!
We now have over 2300 residents in a 4x4 block area and we are in another building boom which will bring in 123 new living units and close to 250 new residents.
Nice job putting together the Hollywood photo of children lying on the street. There are bad streets all over the city and Chapman is certainly one of them. However blaming Public Works is not the answer. You need to write your council person until they make some money available.
Gallo has been contacted , numerous times, he just smiles and nods.Gallo told us to get 10 Public Works reports, we made 35.. No Action yet. As a representative for our neighborhood , Noel Gallo is worthless.
Looks like you guys are talking to all the right people. It's not much better in my neighborhood (San Antonio Park, D2.) I have been asking my council person Guillen to get streets repaved between E 18th and E 21st. It's like Baghdad in places. So you're not alone.
Gallo is non responsive, we have submitted over 35 reports to Public Works, again no response or we are told we are an industrial neighborhood. Oakland collects taxes from our neighborhood but we get no services in return.
I am a person concerned with peace and justice issues for many decades. But sometimes my expectations of government sink to I would vote for anyone who would fill the potholes and enforce the no call law.
Apparently we finally got DPW off their collective butts. They were out there today fixing some of the holes at Chapman and Lancaster.
Word is:
"Welllll it worked! I was told by the guys out there today doing the work, that they were emailed a copy of that photo by a council member and told to get down here this week. apparently they'll be here today, tomorrow and Friday until it's done. "
Yay to all who helped and C who organized.
Too bad it took such a tragic event to finally get the attention of the city.
1057 views, 26 votes and DPW coming out? That is a success. I'm going to assume that this report bounced around OPW, maybe all the way t Brooke Levin, ( who received an email with the report embedded).
I spoke to many who had problems getting to SCF. I have found that when I am on my pad and sometimes phone, my comments and votes don't register. I always have to re-visit the site to make sure my activity made an appearance.
I am proud of my neighbors who had the energy to get outside and take action, instead of just siting at a computer punching keys.
The site of one of the worst bicycle accidents in Oakland history... and DPW fixes the next 2 blocks. Come on public works... fix the 2800 and 2900 blocks!
Thanks for fixing the other streets but please tell me that you are coming back to fix the worst part which is Chapman between Derby (where work stopped) to 29th... the pictures from this accident were taken along that stretch of Chapman and the potholes are deeper and consistent. Please keep going!!!
This block has not been fixed. Come on DPW... get it together and fix it before you try to close it. You fixed the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Chapman... NOT the 2900 or 2800 blocks.
The City of Oakland Public Works Department has received this issue. It is registered as service request #589829. Thank you, in advance, for your patience as we work through a backlog of pothole service requests. Unfortunately the City does not have enough funding to repave all streets in poor condition. With limited funding, our response to resurfacing requests is limited to minor pavement and pothole repairs only. Our Street Maintenance Department will assess your street and determine whether temporary measures might be appropriate. Please understand that this work may be limited to pothole or other minor repairs, and that we have many similar requests. We will do our best to respond in a timely manner. The backlog of streets in Oakland needing pavement currently is $435 million and growing.
At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm 5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates, or contact us directly at 510-615-5566.
The block where all the neighbors protested was NEVER touched! Try again DPW Chapman is a lawsuit just waiting to happen.
Attached is a photo taken yesterday, the pothole is 10'l ong x3' wide and 2.5" deep. All the gravel in the foreground is from the deterioration of the street. The 2900 block of Chapman has an inch deep of loose gravel along the side of the road
Due to the danger to cyclists, along with the fact that OPW repaired a different stretch of the street, this issue is being submitted to Oakland as a "TOP 10" for immediate attention under an agreement with the Bike East Bay Hazard Elimination program.
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At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm
5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates, or contact us directly at 510-615-5566.
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cleanjingletown (Registered User)
Oakland is getting Gas Tax money to fix potholes. There will be a blitz to fix potholes from 6/15-7/31. The money is now available, Public Works has decided we are not worthy of street repairs, even though our neighborhood has had a building boom from 2005-2009, increasing Oakland's property tax revenues by the MILLIONS!
We now have over 2300 residents in a 4x4 block area and we are in another building boom which will bring in 123 new living units and close to 250 new residents.
WE ARE GETTING SCREWED!
Kent Lewandowski (Registered User)
sheeeesh! (Registered User)
"You need to write your council person until they make some money available."
We have been talking to them for over 2 1/2 years... got any more suggestions? The first SCF post on this was in December of 2012.
Why is it that some streets seem to get paving... hills... others in the flatlands... get ignored?
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
Kent Lewandowski (Registered User)
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
sheeeesh! (Registered User)
" It's like Baghdad in places."
That would be a step up for us... it's more like Somalia or West Africa here.
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
Candy (Registered User)
sheeeesh! (Registered User)
Apparently we finally got DPW off their collective butts. They were out there today fixing some of the holes at Chapman and Lancaster.
Word is:
"Welllll it worked! I was told by the guys out there today doing the work, that they were emailed a copy of that photo by a council member and told to get down here this week. apparently they'll be here today, tomorrow and Friday until it's done. "
Yay to all who helped and C who organized.
Too bad it took such a tragic event to finally get the attention of the city.
David Coleman (Registered User)
sheeeesh! (Registered User)
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
1057 views, 26 votes and DPW coming out? That is a success. I'm going to assume that this report bounced around OPW, maybe all the way t Brooke Levin, ( who received an email with the report embedded).
I spoke to many who had problems getting to SCF. I have found that when I am on my pad and sometimes phone, my comments and votes don't register. I always have to re-visit the site to make sure my activity made an appearance.
I am proud of my neighbors who had the energy to get outside and take action, instead of just siting at a computer punching keys.
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
chuck (Registered User)
sheeeesh! (Registered User)
There go our speed bumps...
I won't miss them!
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
sheeeesh! (Registered User)
JingletownPeace (Registered User)
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
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calonergan (Registered User)
Reopened sheeeesh! (Registered User)
WTF...
This block has not been fixed. Come on DPW... get it together and fix it before you try to close it. You fixed the 3000 and 3100 blocks of Chapman... NOT the 2900 or 2800 blocks.
PLEASE FIX THIS ISSUE!!!!!
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At your convenience, please review the following information regarding the City of Oakland Street/Sidewalk Maintenance Program:
Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Streets & Sidewalks http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/s/SST/index.htm
5-Year Paving Plan http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/EC/s/STS/OAK030328 Please check back for status updates, or contact us directly at 510-615-5566.
cleanjingletown (Registered User)
Are you @#$%&*^%$ NUTS?
The block where all the neighbors protested was NEVER touched! Try again DPW Chapman is a lawsuit just waiting to happen.
Attached is a photo taken yesterday, the pothole is 10'l ong x3' wide and 2.5" deep. All the gravel in the foreground is from the deterioration of the street. The 2900 block of Chapman has an inch deep of loose gravel along the side of the road
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