This trail is getting worse. There is now a barbecue on the path. Please clean this up.

The city will follow up on this.

The couches are close to the sidewalk, and are definitely on city property.

The path itself is under the jurisdiction of Laney College. The city will investigate who is responsible for removing this garbage.

I am adding a few photos of the trash. Note that there are a couple of tents nearby, though they do not block the path. I suspect that the people living in the tents are responsible for the trash.

More trash on the path

Here is a couch near the entrance to the bike path near 4th St.

Leland Moore is supervisor for cleaning up illegal dumping 434-5103.

senior supervisor Dexter English 434-5130

Public works does not have a direct contact for Laney/Peralta

As of Tuesday morning, there is a van parked just off the bike path.

As of Monday, the city does not know who is responsible for these problems. It is possible that the city can pick up the garbage on the path. It is possible that Laney has that responsibility.

Kevin thanks for putting in your time trying to get this cleaned up. It is almost unbelievable what the public is forced to do. Who is running the City of Oakland PWD the SCF users? PWD how hard is to find the maintenance/ ground crews dept at Laney???

Couches will be picked up.

The city does not want to take responsibility for the bike path

Public works is taking a report for the homeless encampment on this path.

at 23 4th St.

but may not be Oakland's jurisdiction. Will check with supervisor.

Public works is contacting Peralta College, since Laney may be responsible for this path.

Sabrina Jones is looking into this and may know more in a day or two.

An early morning photo with too much shade, showing a large tent at edge of bike path.

The second couch was picked up this morning, and there was less stuff blocking the path. The stuff was off of the path.

I suspect that the city or Peralta did some cleaning up, and talked to the residents about keeping the bike path clean.

This is encouraging.

Seven votes after 115 views talk about apathy. Good luck with getting the city or Peralta clearing this new dump/ encampment.

City of Oakland Public Works Department addressed this issue on 07/13/2016, service request #658915.

The couch has been picked up, which is why the ticket was closed.

The city will contact Sabrina Jones and find out the status of the rest of the garbage.

I mentioned that the tent city does extend onto city property via a broken fence near the path.

The Oakland Fire Training Division is on the other side of the fence.

After discussing this report with Public Works, we decided that this job would be closed, since 2 couches were removed near 4th St.

A new report has been opened to handle the case of the homeless encampment:

http://seeclickfix.com/issues/2713443

Here is a recent photo of the increasing encampment.

Thanks for fixing this issue!

Thanks for continuing to follow up on this. I did just get the following official response from Caltrans as well FWIW: "It has been determined that this location is not under Caltrans control. Please contact the city to fix the problem. Thank you."

Thanks Kevin for being persistent on this issue, now we'll have to see what happens with this encampment

Robert,

When I complained to Caltrans about flooding of this path, I received the same answer. Caltrans has given all rights to Laney, and their lawyers say they have no legal responsibility.

I still haven't found a person with Peralta who can handle issues related to the path.