We recently moved from a warehouse in Emeryville to a warehouse juuuuust across the border in Oakland. Naturally, the first thing I did was write a poorly worded letter to the city, vaguely detailing our litter and pothole problems near the new ‘haus. The next morning (this morning, in fact) I received a reply:
Thank you for contacting the Public Works Agency Call Center regarding the email below. Our street cleaning crew is at the location cleaning up litters and the service request for that is registered as XXXXXX. Your service request for pothole repair on the YYYY block of Hollis street is registered as ZZZZZZ. Please contact us at (510) 615-5566 if you have further questions.
Who knew complaining to the right people about a problem would help fix it? Here’s hoping they actually come down and do the work, and that it stays clean! My theory is that people dump more garbage where there is already a pile, so maybe cleaning it up will resolve the situation.
Afternoon update: the sidewalks are clean and the potholes have been fixed, not even 24 hours after my complaint! How long until the picture below returns to its garbage dump-y state?
