shit like this is why i laugh when people say jersey city is comparable to nyc. the municipal management of this city is an utter joke.

I posted on Reddit when SeeClickFix did not respond for months. Then emailed Councilman Solomon. It was fixed the same day.

But yea, enforcement is shit in this city.

It seems like the people who are supposed to be enforcing these things just do nothing unless they are told explicitly to get off their ass and do something.

Ya which is why it's comparable to nyc

>The same year and to great fanfare, the mayor expanded the Quality of Life Taskforce and placed it within the Municipal Prosecutor's Office headed by Jake Hudnut. Hudnut was also put in charge of the RCC and the OCC.

And this fucknut wanted our vote - he can't even get abandoned bikes cut off signposts. Useless bum

idk. i lived in nyc for 10 years before buying my apt here, and i’ve never seen such blatant mismanagement. say what you will about the mayor of nyc and corruption and/or general buffoonery, but when i lived there in multiple neighborhoods, i never had trash strewn streets after garbage pickup, never had quality of life issues straight up ignored and/or not documented, never had to practically beg city government to give basic maintenance and care to my neighborhood (i currently live in ward b, which i’m not positive fulop is aware exists outside of lincoln park. which is a county, not city, park). in my experience, jc is a joke as far as municipal management goes.

Where did you live? I lived in Manhattan and The Bronx. The city management difference is shocking between the two. Jersey City more closely resembles what I experienced living in The Bronx.

Three out of five issues I submitted via SeeClickFix were resolved. An abandoned bike might be a tougher one because it’s private property; not sure if the city can just move someone else’s stuff. I find the people on SeeClickFix to be responsive and overall helpful.

i lived in queens, but i have family in manhattan.

They'll enforce no biking in the Newark Ave plaza and that's it

The WOTS app is equally as useless

The three issues I reported were resolved. I did resubmit one after nothing happened and then action was taken.

Not super impressed, but also better than a simple phone line to report issues.

Just returned from Seattle and it's insane how good their infrastructure is compared to ours... no potholes, multiple buses every minute, beautiful and ubiquitous PBLs, light rails, monorails, etc... Seemed like barely anyone was driving a car there.

I am not Anti-Fulop, but I don't like his emails and the way everything he says is very self affirming. The city could be much better than it is. Instead of someone new, I'd be fine with a sincere effort on his part and the entire municipality to fix things.

i already see the other guy that posted here saying they had some positive experience with seeclickfix got downvoted, but i'll also state i've had mixed but generally positive experiences. i've submitted probably a dozen or more tickets over the past few years.

- resolved with 24-48 hours include broken streetlights, obstructed pathways due to overgrowth, broken traffic signals, clogged sewers

- never resolved include confusing traffic signals or signs, unsafe intersections

it's pretty obvious to me what seeclickfix is good for vs not. the first set are very tactical fixes with people specifically tasked every single day with doing the thing you need fixed, they just don't know it was broken until you tell them.

the second set is more structural, requires policy review, traffic study, police enforcement (god forbid?!). i don't want to oversell the difference because any reasonable person can stand at these intersections and deem them unsafe and think of reasonable solutions, and it IS someone's job to do that. but it's also not hard to see these are inherently differently from potholes.

i plan to keep submitting both forms of ticket either way, i'm glad they redesigned columbus drive for example... i note my personal experience is isolated to downtown.

Yes, if there's one thing New York City is famous for, it's not having trash on the streets.

And of course the one positive comment is getting downvoted. Don't you know /r/jerseycity is for complaining and cynicism only?

The process is they put a sticker on it with a reasonable deadline (a month or two or something like that for the person to come back and claim). Have personally seen a bike get stickered but then they didn't come back to remove until over a year later.

Have also seen claims for work completed that they definitely did not do. WOTS has gotten this way to where the parking enforcement officers don't even show up to the location and still close out tickets pretending as if they were there. Their excuses used to be lame. Now they are just lies.

I have less of a problem with saying the city is under-resourced if that is what's happening in some cases though it's still the politicians' jobs to figure it out. But I don't know why we should ever accept lying by public employees.

in some neighborhoods, yeah. maybe not in midtown or soho.

Right, but New York isn't just Soho. And couldn't you say the same thing about Hamilton Park and downtown compared to the rest of JC?

you cant really fairly compare roads from a place that gets no snow to one that does though . The salt and the chemicals put on the roads wreck the roads in snowy cities.

However its VERY bad in JC compared to even the rest of NJ. Like there should be a full time work crews where their ONLY job is to drive around and fill pot holes... It takes all of 10 minutes of work to fill on. They could do 100 a day and still be busy year round .

There is no excuse for basketball sized potholes existing for months after reporting them.

One of my neighbors used to get frustrated and go fill them himself . Shocked they didnt launch an investigation to find and give him a ticket.

sure, but your original comment suggested that my experience living in nyc and not seeing trash everywhere was not the norm. and i believe it probably depends on where you live, and you’re saying that applies to jc as well. but i am making the point that i believe nyc’s municipal services to be, on the whole, better run than jc’s. and that this mismanagement in jc is holding it back from being as great as it can be (and as great as fulop would have developers believe).

are you suggesting it doesnt snow in seattle?

Not like it does here they get a few incher per year - we get a few feet per year - its a pretty big difference

the only thing that gets addressed is trash, and im convinced that is a coordinated racket for collecting overtime....i dont remember the last time trash/recycling collection did not do a second run the day after collection.

Fair point. We should still be improving mass transit options here though -- more buses and routes, expand the PATH and light rail, make proper PBLs (the ones in Seattle have beautiful greenery in their barriers as opposed to our terribly ugly Jersey barriers).

The average low in Seattle in February is 37 degrees, in New Jersey it's an average high of 40 and low of 21, the constant melting then freezing of ice is what does most of the damage here. From what I can find Seattle gets 3.9 days of snow per year on average, NJ gets 12.2 days of snow on average, but again it's really the bounce between above and below freezing that is what does the damage.

So it's very significant that we literally have 3 entire months where the daily average high is above 32 and the low is below 32, where as Seattle has exactly 0 months where the average low goes below 32.

its the corruption in the process and by companies . Even when NJ does a fair bid system , they do something like only certified companies can bid but then find ways to deny everyone but who they are friends with in the certification process.

Things that were done 30 years ago for 200 million now end up as 2 billion dollar project - it just doesn't match the inflation or cost increases .

From the cost of doing a mile of road work to mass transit and tunnels the price is completely off the charts form back room deals . That why nothing gets done.. It doesn't get done unless everyone and their mom that signs off on it gets a big piece . ive seen projects need "post project documentation and pictures" all of a sudden and then have to hire some senators sons company who only just came into existence to do nothing but go take completion pictures for a six figures.

Compare Newark and Patterson roads to ones in Jersey City. Thats a fair comparison and Jersey City is taken care of much better. Snow removal and pot hole fixes are way better here in JC.

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8 cops deep just shooting the shit