While I'm on the subject of the bus! I am fully in support of BT's decision to remove bus advertising wraps. But please, could you just leave the wraps off of the windows altogether? They make it very difficult to see where one is going and when is the right time to pull the cord. Thank you!
This is another bus stop that I don't understand! The whole structure is surrounded by some kind of green cage material, except for the door which does not face the street. So if you are standing inside the cage, I don't know how well you can see the bus, but the driver certainly cannot see you. Plus, once you've decided it's time to stand up and go, you've got to hustle out of the back and scoot all the way around the structure. If this is not a complete wackadoo design, I would enjoy an explanation. But if it IS wackadoo, please warn the future bus stop installers and perhaps fix this one. It takes up an awful lot of sidewalk real estate to be wrong.
BT is supposed to install some new bus shelters, so I wanted to discuss the one near the corner of 14th and College Ave. It's more or less brand new and it's really bad in some remarkable ways! 1) When they built it, they built it at least twice. I'm not kidding. They ripped out the concrete pad and started over. I've always wondered why. 2) I like that there is a garbage can, but they installed in on the side of the shelter that the bus approaches from. If you sit on the bench, you can't see the bus approach and I doubt the driver can see you either. 3) It might help to sit on the end of the bench farthest from the garbage but you can't because a couple of months ago, someone vomited on it and the roof of the structure has done a pretty good job of preventing the rain from washing it away. 4) That roof, incidentally, does not do a whole lot to shade me from the early morning sun OR any kind of rain that falls at any angle. Not, of course, that it's possible for many people to stand under that shelter because of that bench you can't sit on. ANYWAY. I'm not begging for an improvement or anything (though I wouldn't turn one down!) but these are all just sort of design and installation issues that I think BT should think about the next time they install a shelter. Thanks!
Parking department is a money hungry power scheme in the community that drives individuals away from visiting downtown shops and restaurants. For the individuals that always pay the meters and spend hundreds of dollars a year at the meters and then forget one time and have a $30 fee is ridiculous. The appeal process is also a joke. Need to reconsider how we treat our citizens and patrons of downtown businesses.
Another week or so has gone by. More trash piled up at 2998 S. Sare Rd. in plain sight of everyone in the neighborhood. Nothing has been done about it since my last report.
Vehicle repeatedly parked on this residential permit street without a valid City permit. It is not registered to any residence in the neighborhood and is being used as long-term storage parking. License # is ZST890
At the intersection of Clarizz and 3rd, near the corner closest to the Bloomingfoods, the unit for the pedestrian button is only loosely attached to the pole.
There is a pothole in the street at the corner of Fenbrook and Sara. It started out a couple months ago about 1 foot in diameter, and shallow. It has now grown to a couple feet in size and is getting deeper. Residents, delivery trucks and service vehicles drive over it every day, and with winter coming, it is going to become dangerous. Thanks for looking into this matter.
sticks and leaves in bike lane on Washington between 1st and Dixie are getting pretty obnoxious
We put out 4 bundles of yard waste and it was not picked up. We were advised that the bundles were too large and too heavy. We have rebundled these to adjust the length and weight and they should now be within the dimension and weight limits. Please pick up our bundles. Thanks.