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

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.

I find the city's answer completely pathetic.

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.