Lynn

This pothole was reported starting 4 years ago and is mentioned weekly with NO ACTION. SeeClickFix, the Mayor and the City Council "budget and plan" to repave every 36 years. I've been waiting more than 23 years for Oakland's Mayor and City Council to fill DEADLY potholes like this where parents drop off kids at Cleveland Elementary School on Montclair and Cleveland Avenues. I saw a car almost hit a parent this morning. 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. I wish they would 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 in the generic pothole response 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. Montclair Avenue is in the City's 5 year paving plan, but Cleveland is not. Will Cleveland Elementary school parents really have to wait more than five years to safely drop off their children at school?