City of Oakland Public Works Agency addressed this issue on 09/26/2012, service request # 426756.

Thank you Pub Works very much. I do wish the speed of the pickup was faster but we are now happy. ---- As our Police services now primarily service the hood and now Pub Works who at one time would respond much faster to a sidewalk blockage such as this. Our taxes go somewhere in O (likely the hood) while the people collect welfare, drain police services, flood jails (where the State pays $40K per year for each prisoner and ONLY $9K for each student), and the vast majority of International Blvd business pay zero taxes (cash business). Something wrong with the place.

Wow, Love of Oakland! Well said. Being the way things are, I am doing my part to at least try and make our part of town look good. I pick up the trash along Redwood Road from Mountain to Crestmont, and along Campus from Redwood to the college. (some of the people that go there are pigs! They just throw everything out the window). I also do tree and bush trimming along Redwood Road, as well as pull weeds, like I did this evening. Just trying to do my part. None of my neighbors seem to give a damn.

P.S. I had reported this before you but they consolidated our reports.

Thanks Frank. I agree on the neighbors not caring. I have pulled weeds on the islands before Terrabella and Campus/Sereno Circle. My neighbors pretended they did not know me as they drive by.

We should start a volunteering campaign where we ask many to get involve and demand the city divert traffic on the days we do the Public Works job as it is dangerous to pull weeds on Redwood!

Finally, I have asked for garbage cans to be placed in this area. I was told that Pub Works and AC Transit are removing cans throughout various parts of the city as people are now doing curbside drop offs of their home garbage!

What a mess and when will it end?!?

Love of Oakland - it won't end. People are just pigs. I lived in Martinez for over 10 years before moving here and it was the same there. A neighbor from Ridgemont, named Art, does similiar cleaning. He belongs to a group called Keep Oakland Beautiful. I am in the process of joining. Do you belong? The contact person is Christine Ralls, Sr. Clean City Specialist. Her E-mail is: CRalls@Oakland.net, and her number is 238-6260. Are you going to the Feet In The Laurel tonight? We meet in front of Ace Hardware at 7.