Aaron Golembiewski

There's a dead cat in the road.

This is a bi monthly occurrence now. There are also additional bags 20 yards down the street on the same side.

It looks like a landfill along this stretch.

It looks a bit like a small fresh kills.

As we live in an older region with smaller roadways and a continuing addiction to cars, we tend to have serious traffic chokepoints across the city. I highlight Observer Highway/New York Avenue here, but they're call across the area.

Because vehicles stuck in traffic snarls spew concentrated toxic fumes such as carbon monoxide, particulate matter and greenhouse gases (unless they are electric, hybrids of PZEVs), could we add a surcharge to our parking permits based on the type of vehicle one drives? It doesn't have to be much (in fact, as parking permits are so low, it couldn't be), but some kind of a carrot and/or stick that reminds people they they could purchase a cleaner emission vehicle would be a positive step (much like the proposed plastic bag ban that won't save the world on its own, but at least moves us forward.) I'd like to see the funds from this surcharge put right back into planting trees and other plants in these chokepoint areas to scrub the air as much as possible.

Please take a look at this information from the Union of Concerned Scientists to learn more about the harmful effects of these pollutants, and realize that they reach higher levels in the areas surrounding these chokepoints.

https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/vehicles-air-pollution-and-human-health/cars-trucks-air-pollution#.Wx_ldTNKj5Y

There is a dead cat in a garbage bag adjacent to the gate to the construction site. The cat did not die in the bag as it was there yesterday- someone added the bag after the fact (likely to shield it from view.) It does not look like any of the feral cats in the area, so I suspect it was someone's pet that was either hit by a car or killed by another animal.

Along the sidewalk, where the gate to the construction site is located, there is a dead cat in a garbage bag (which was added after the cat's demise yesterday by someone likely trying to shield the cat from view- let me be clear-- it was not killed in the bag and appeared to have been hit by a car or attacked by another animal.) Although there are lots of feral cats in the area, its markings are not consistent with theirs, so I suspect it was someone's pet.

There were shots fired at Lienau Place and Reservoir on February 15th. I have not seen any additional information. Please have the police department and city provide an update on the status of the case.

There were shots fired at New York Avenue and Griffith on February 14th. I have not seen any additional information. Please have the police department and city provide an update on the status of the case.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018/02/police_probe_pair_of_shootings_in_jersey_city.html

There were shots fired at Manhattan and Sherman on January 6th. I have not seen any additional information. Please have the police department and city provide an update on the status of the case.

See Click Fix requires that I choose a location, so I have. While our intersection was filthier than usual with litter this morning after trash pickup last night, by the time you send someone out to look, it will likely have blown away.

This remains a city wide problem, and one without a singular cause or a singular solution. When will we have a comprehensive plan to get out from under this constantly shifting mound of garbage? As far as I can tell, the city's current approach is just to hope we accept it as part of the urban landscape and/or that it blows into Hoboken and Union City (two places that really should send us a bill as they make a real effort to keep their communities clean.)

Show us a plan. Create some publicly available benchmarks. Meet those benchmarks. Retool the plan if necessary. Meet the new benchmarks. Clean up Jersey City.

There is a white bag left on the snow bank. It may have been missed due to the nighttime collection policy. Please send someone to pick it up this morning.

I've noticed a significant uptick in vehicles blatantly running red lights along Webster Avenue (along with other places in the city.) If the police department is not able to adequately curtail this behavior, we need to turn to find new ways to enforce existing laws.

Lives are at stake, especially as we slowly move toward more pedestrians, more strollers and more bicycles.

While people have sincere issues with red light cameras, they have to be a part of the discussion. The argument that they cause stop short rear end collisions is fair, but to exclude them from the discussion because of bad actors behind drivers whom stop to avoid a ticket is foolish, given that t-bone accidents are more dangerous to drivers, not to mention pedestrians with strollers have no defense against a two ton vehicle that just doesn't feel like adhering to a stoplight.

We need some solutions, Jersey City.

This bin on the way down NY avenue into Hoboken is routinely ignored in collection, allowing its contents to spill into the street.

The pickup along the south side of Ravine was abysmal. This may be due to poor effort by the contracted company or a failure of residents to properly place/separate recycling. Probably both.

But the result is litter everywhere. Please do whatever you can to educate the contracting company and our community on proper separation, placement and pickup.

I would like to know how the city is using SeeClickFix. This site could be an incredible tool that encourages the public to report problems and holds departments accountable for acting on our concerns.

When an issue is reported, a ticket is created and it's sent to a department. So far, so good. From there, some of them are addressed and closed, some of them are just closed and others seem to disappear into the ether (I have a few that have been outstanding for over a year.)

Does the city follow up? Is there someone responsible for closing out lingering tickets? Is there a way to see which departments are effectively closing tickets and which are not? And, if so, can we tie some form of compensation to this process and reward departments that are clearing their queues?

This could be a great tool. Is someone in the city actually overseeing its use? Is there some accountability here?

With the elections over (sort of), please reprimand any of the candidates whom refuse to clean up after their extensive lit dropping throughout The Heights (and, I imagine, the rest of the city.) If these folks truly care about our community as much as they have claimed for months, they'll clean up the abundant mess they have left across our sidewalks and streets.

Free speech does not given them the right to freely litter.

There is a rotting turkey carcass on the sidewalk, along with other groceries.