Public Works has received your request (#17-10-0002) and assigned it to our Maintenance Division to respond within the next two weeks. We maintain 44 bus shelters throughout Alameda, and receive numerous requests related to their maintenance. Your electronic submission goes a long way to helping you and Public Works track the request. Thank you in advance for your help (and patience) in maintaining Alameda’s bus shelters.

Alameda is becoming a living getto right before our eyes and no one seems to notice or even care. It all started with low income housing

I think a better solution would be to keep the bums out vs. providing a housekeeping service for them.

1. The bus shelters should be maintained regularly regardless of where the filth is coming from;
2. The homeless people occupying the various bus shelters are not residents of low-income housing, they are residents of no housing, which is why they live in a bus shelter;
3. The city of Alameda is spending money on an outreach program, these homeless folks should be contacted by the outreach program based on the numerous reports by residents that the bus shelters are used as homes;
4. The police should be going by to stop public urination, public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, drug use, etc., in or near the bus shelters;
5. Most of the Alameda bus shelter homeless appear to be mentally ill; and would be very unlikely to be eligible for any low-income housing inside of Alameda, because their disorganized lives do to lend themselves to the good credit ratings and steady incomes (even if low) required to get them into Alameda's low-income housing;
6. This is a quality of life issue and safety issue for Alameda's, and I agree it is getting worse and worse.

Your request (#17-10-0002) is now a work order, assigned to staff. Thank you for helping to keep Alameda a great City. This is an automated response. If your request is an emergency, please call 911.

Thank you for submitting this request (#17-10-0002). It has been addressed and is now closed.

The city needs to do a much much better job of keeping both issues in check. I really dislike these generic computer generated responses that often don't address the issue being reported. Also, issues are continually closed even though the issue has not been resolved.

Dear verified city of Alameda official: I am reopening this issue because you have not finished your job. Please don't use the phrase "it has been addressed and now closed." I don't think you realize how offensive that boilerplate answer is to Alameda residents. We understand that answer was probably one of the standard choices available as a one-button reply when SeeClickFix started, but SCF has evolved into a way for city governments to be transparent, and save time by being transparent, and get credit for the work by being transparent. You, city of Alameda verified official, are using the old style of secrecy, brushing off residents, and shutting them up and shutting them down, probably without intending to do so.

I am perfectly capable of keeping you busy for hundreds of hours with public records requests about what you have done and failed to do. Why should I have to do that? Why would you want me to do that? Would you really like to be outed as the individual city of Alameda employee that says "$^^*^% off, residents of Alameda, I don't have to put a picture of how I did my job, and don't have to say how I did my job. You worthless residents can go by this particular bus shelter and see for yourselves, all 400 of you who are interested in this issue, and you worthless residents can keep doing it every time a resident or two or ten or fifty reports an issue. I don't work for you residents, you work for me, &^(&^&*&*&."

Can't you just say: "Public works went by and cleaned the shelter on ____ date. In the future, we will ask the bus company to clean their own shelters. We will have the Alameda police remove and offer services to the 10 or 12 homeless persons we are aware are living in various bus shelters. We ask that Alameda residents continue to report sticky or stinky bus shelters on SCF, as it saves us hundreds of hour per year inspecting the shelters. Thank you so much, Alameda residents, for relieving us of one of our job duties, so we can focus on the cleaning part instead of the inspecting part. Of course, in the future we will relieve Alameda citizens of one of their unpaid job duties, asking us repeatedly what we did, or going to the particular bus shelters and performing inspections. We intend to tell you right here on SCF what we did, when were did it, and maybe post a photo of our success. Soon we hope to be as adept at SCF transparency as Jesse the tree inspector, and Kerry the dumped junk remover, and the PW "we beat expectations every time" sign replacers, and Ken Jeffries the fire preventer, and dozens of other Alameda employees who post one sentence about their work, or one photo and one word: "Done."

Please, city of Alameda verified official, understand the we want you to get credit for your work. We demand that you toot your own horn. We feel good every time we are able to say thanks for a job completed, because we participated in the inspection, and worked on putting the work request in.

Public Works has received your request (#18-07-0234) and assigned it to our Maintenance Division to respond within the next two weeks. We maintain 44 bus shelters throughout Alameda, and receive numerous requests related to their maintenance. Your electronic submission goes a long way to helping you and Public Works track the request. Thank you in advance for your help (and patience) in maintaining Alameda’s bus shelters.

Your request (#18-07-0234) is now a work order, assigned to staff. Thank you for helping to keep Alameda a great City. This is an automated response. If your request is an emergency, please call 911.

The city has unfortunately succumbed to the new left wing platform of letting criminals do whatever they want and letting homeless take over everything with total impunity. Now, anyone who speaks out against these things is labeled a bigot and are immediately shut down. They no longer enforce the law and now we're seeing these homeless camps, theft and drug activity increasing all over the island. Thanks APD

APD has been ignoring this issue for an entire year. They dont care about enforcing any laws. Believe me. They even let someone get away with trying to murder me today (Im literally not even kidding). They literally couldn't care less

PW Admin Gail assigned this issue to Florence Lopez

homeless element on park street has expanded and multiplied. its now around 5 times worse since this issue was originally reported. saw a whole group of them hanging around the antique shop/vietnamese place yesterday barefoot with empty liquor bottles all over the ground, menacing at passers by trying to intimidate them while under the influence of opiates. thanks apd, most useless police department in law enforcement history!

Thank you for submitting this request (#18-07-0234). It has been addressed and is now closed.