The City of Oakland Public Works Agency has received this issue. It is registered as service request # 507827. 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.
Please note that this pothole caused a serious cycling accident on 3/11. The new metal plate is a significant hazard for cyclists and to avoid it, you must ride into the oncoming lane. The path back into the proper lane runs directly over this pothole. I spent two days at Highland and suffered five broken bones after hitting this pothole. It is a major hazard that needs to be fixed immediately.
The City of Oakland Public Works Agency has received this issue. It is registered as service request # 511967. 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.
Posting a photo with the incident report is supposed to help ID the problem so the problem gets fixed. Something very basic is not working here.
If we have to supply a photo of the problem, OPW should post a photo of the fix, or provide some other concrete, traceable reason why they are closing an issue.
I am SOOOO tired of the message crying about how big their backlog is. If they would start firing things, instead of adding more and more bike lanes and road diets, they could eliminate that backlog in a year or two.
The street behind out house where we park, Merriewood Lane has not been services or repaired for almost 25+ years. Backlog my butt, that is just incompetence in management.
That should say "fixing things" not "firing things", although maybe they need to start firing people if they cannot fix the rotting infrastructure of this city.
There is 7 million available to fix potholes City-wide over the next several months. Please fix this pothole. The overall street looks in bad condition, probably has a Pavement Condition Index score of 25 or lower (100 is perfect) and should be repaved.
I've been waiting more than 23 years for Oakland's Mayor and City Council to fill DEADLY potholes where parents drop off kids at Cleveland Elementary School on Montclair and Cleveland Avenues. Park Boulevard and so many other major streets are also full of DEADLY potholes and accidents waiting to happen. I've reported on this useless site (SeeClickSit) multiple times. NOTHING but more potholes and deeper potholes and more accidents and DEADLY swerving where children are getting out of cars to go to school!
What will it take for the Mayor and City Council and City staff to do more than pat themselves on the backs for an "improved" budget that doesn't even begin to correctly identify and then address priority problems? Do any of them even know how to budget? How many broken axels, damaged tires, or accidents do us citizens have to pay for outside of the City's budget process? Will it take fatalities? Will it take lawsuits? Citizens in Mexico City just won a class action lawsuit against the City for not budgeting correctly to address the magnitude of pothole accidents. Yes, there were fatalities. When will Oakland's Mayor and City Council have the guts to tax the big developers and their big corporate donors and create a REAL budget that has sufficient REVENUE to address the REAL scope of the problem? These are the same folks who pat themselves on the back for 10 new tiny sheds to house the 9000 (not 4000) human beings living on the cold streets of Oakland. Please stop talking down to us and asking for our patience. Get REAL.
Oakland.net states the City has "831 miles of City-maintained streets, NOT "300+ miles" as stated above by SeeClickSit. PLEASE state the magnitude of the problem correctly. Oaklandca.gov says Oakland has a "network of 2300 lane miles" and "39% of streets are in Good to Excellent condition; 38% in Fair condition; and 23% in Poor condition." I challenge Oakland's Mayor and City Council to show us ONE full street in "Excellent" condition after one year of paving since new paving is usually torn up by big developers or by utility companies (water, electric) for poorly timed "improvements" within one year of paving.
I just spent $2000 to fix my axel thanks to the inability of Oakland's Mayor and City Council to appropriately budget for the scope of the DEADLY problem the City is facing. I've waited for 23 years for pothole repair (not even street paving) in front of a so-called "priority" school where parents drop off children every morning. And now, the City says their new and "improved" paving budget will let them pave 23 of Oakland's 831 miles of street every year! I'll help the City's budget experts with the math. That means we all have to wait 36 years to have our streets made safe enough to drive on... as long as the paving is done well-enough to last 36 years.
15 تعليقs
تم إقراره City of Oakland (تم التحقق رسميا)
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.
Ray (ضيف)
calonergan (مستخدم مسجل)
Dear DPW,
Please do address this service request #507827 as soon as possible; Oakland can't afford more payouts due to injured cyclists, like this: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_25386897/oakland-pay-cyclist-3-25-million-pothole-crash
Thanks for working hard to keep Oakland safer!
--DPW fan
Mike Moran (ضيف)
When in crisis, triage- plug the worst holes first. This is right up there. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
مغلق City of Oakland (تم التحقق رسميا)
calonergan (مستخدم مسجل)
calonergan (مستخدم مسجل)
فتح Ray (مستخدم مسجل)
تم إقراره City of Oakland (تم التحقق رسميا)
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.
Phil carter (مستخدم مسجل)
Posting a photo with the incident report is supposed to help ID the problem so the problem gets fixed. Something very basic is not working here.
If we have to supply a photo of the problem, OPW should post a photo of the fix, or provide some other concrete, traceable reason why they are closing an issue.
Owen Rubin (مستخدم مسجل)
I am SOOOO tired of the message crying about how big their backlog is. If they would start firing things, instead of adding more and more bike lanes and road diets, they could eliminate that backlog in a year or two.
The street behind out house where we park, Merriewood Lane has not been services or repaired for almost 25+ years. Backlog my butt, that is just incompetence in management.
I find the city's answer completely pathetic.
Owen Rubin (مستخدم مسجل)
Nicholas J. Vigilante (مستخدم مسجل)
Lynn (مستخدم مسجل)
I've been waiting more than 23 years for Oakland's Mayor and City Council to fill DEADLY potholes where parents drop off kids at Cleveland Elementary School on Montclair and Cleveland Avenues. Park Boulevard and so many other major streets are also full of DEADLY potholes and accidents waiting to happen. I've reported on this useless site (SeeClickSit) multiple times. NOTHING but more potholes and deeper potholes and more accidents and DEADLY swerving where children are getting out of cars to go to school!
What will it take for the Mayor and City Council and City staff to do more than pat themselves on the backs for an "improved" budget that doesn't even begin to correctly identify and then address priority problems? Do any of them even know how to budget? How many broken axels, damaged tires, or accidents do us citizens have to pay for outside of the City's budget process? Will it take fatalities? Will it take lawsuits? Citizens in Mexico City just won a class action lawsuit against the City for not budgeting correctly to address the magnitude of pothole accidents. Yes, there were fatalities. When will Oakland's Mayor and City Council have the guts to tax the big developers and their big corporate donors and create a REAL budget that has sufficient REVENUE to address the REAL scope of the problem? These are the same folks who pat themselves on the back for 10 new tiny sheds to house the 9000 (not 4000) human beings living on the cold streets of Oakland. Please stop talking down to us and asking for our patience. Get REAL.
Oakland.net states the City has "831 miles of City-maintained streets, NOT "300+ miles" as stated above by SeeClickSit. PLEASE state the magnitude of the problem correctly. Oaklandca.gov says Oakland has a "network of 2300 lane miles" and "39% of streets are in Good to Excellent condition; 38% in Fair condition; and 23% in Poor condition." I challenge Oakland's Mayor and City Council to show us ONE full street in "Excellent" condition after one year of paving since new paving is usually torn up by big developers or by utility companies (water, electric) for poorly timed "improvements" within one year of paving.
I just spent $2000 to fix my axel thanks to the inability of Oakland's Mayor and City Council to appropriately budget for the scope of the DEADLY problem the City is facing. I've waited for 23 years for pothole repair (not even street paving) in front of a so-called "priority" school where parents drop off children every morning. And now, the City says their new and "improved" paving budget will let them pave 23 of Oakland's 831 miles of street every year! I'll help the City's budget experts with the math. That means we all have to wait 36 years to have our streets made safe enough to drive on... as long as the paving is done well-enough to last 36 years.
مغلق City of Oakland (تم التحقق رسميا)