Liberty street/BP

[REDWING]

What's going on with liberty street by the BP station? It looks like a 3rd world country. The trash is getting farther down the street everytime I drive by and the sink hole is getting bigger. All they did was put something over it so you driver around it a few months ago.

[02Roadking]

Pretty sickening isn't it. I may try a trash pick up after work 4:30ish today. If not today, early Saturday morning.
As for the sinkhole, the city may be waiting for it to swallow up the block.
I want to thank whomever cut the grass on the southside of 8th @ Liberty. I normally try to keep up those corners, but failed this time around. Again,thank you

[REDWING]

My husband is planning on taking a couple of trash bins over soon. He can't tonight. I would rather a group go over, I told him not to do it by himself. We joked about the sink hole swallowing up the BP.

[movedsouth]

That block is just not getting the corner. I think it has actually gotten a bit worse this last year with two more houses being empty right now. The labor pool place is helping out a bit, BMLR has helped a bit, and one of the owners has put up no trespassing signs (but it also looks like one of his houses is lived in, and I don't think that house has power).

This will need an intense effort, something like the dog walkers back over here a few years ago, to watch this daily. Occasional JSO drive bys are not making a difference.

[Grits]

The trash is absolutely ridiculous. I spent some time on Sunday cleaning up my block of 9th no doubt that a lot of that trash has made it's way over from Liberty. I also found a crack pipe made out of a RX pill bottle so that was nice.
I would have cleaned up Liberty but I was alone (and alone most of the week) and just didn't want to draw attention to myself. I'd be glad to join if anyone wants to bag some trash this weekend. Let me know.

[fsu813]

Calling 630-CITY works pretty well. Just need the address (or close by address), a description of the trash pile and/or items, and say that it was ILLEGALLY DUMPED on the city right-of-way aka "easement".

They don't pick up little things, but if it's a small pile (noticable form the road), single large items (sink, desk, lamp, box) or car tires they'll pick them up, usually within a week.

Until either (a) the Springfield Apartments are better managed or (b) the BP gas station takes an interest in improving their corner, they'r will continue to be problems. There are plenty opf vacant houses in the neighborhood, that's not the issue. It's those 2 hubs of negative activity there that fester the atmosphere of permissiveness.

[02Roadking]

Anyone that would like to help, please feel free. I'm going to get started about 7:30am.