I heard (but didn't see) that there were reports of fresh graffiti towards Payne. I'll be taking a look and calling the hotline. How are other areas doing?
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I've been reported the "14" graffiti in the park playstructure twice starting 2 weeks ago on the hotline but I'm not sure the system is working so I also sent an email last week. I have to call at odd hours so I'm not sure if there are specific hours that you can leave a message. Someone from another neighborhood tells me that they normally take only 3 days to get most graffiti that they phone in so I'm not sure I'm calling the right spot or if they are overwhelmed and have to let things accumulate so they can do the abatement more efficiently. The number I call is (408)277-2758 which I find via google was at least at one point the "24-hour hotline" number. Is this right?
Almost all the green street lightpoles in the whole neighborhood have been hit numerous times. Does each need to be reported individually?
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I just called the (408)277-2758 now during business hours and this time I got the right hotline. They must have had a setup error.
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I would think you could just say, 'lightpoles in the neighborhood'. Thanks for confirming the number, i've added it on my cell.
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Actually, I just talked to them and they actually want each individually (meaning they need "light pole near street address #### on Latimer, etc..."). This is even after assuring them that it would be no-easter-egg hunt to find affected poles. Maybe this evening I'll write down 20 or so and leave a message with them and ask them if there's someone I can just submit an e-mail to.
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I have called once about that very same tagging, probably 2 weeks ago and it didn't go away. I was last at the park early this week and it was still there. We can obtain graffiti kits from the anti-graffiti program and do our own clean-up. I'll check into that....
It might be nice to someone in our neighborhood who has the proper equipment to take care of these things right away - that's the best deterrent.
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The big one on the plexiglass is now sort-of wiped out (at least it is now unintelligible). I've called in the graffiti on the light poles, etc... throughout the neighborhood twice last week. But there has been no response. I think the city is overwhelmed with the recent increase. My guess is that the budgets got cut a few years back when the had the problem under control. However, some of my co-workers have said that even recently in their neighborhood they get nearly all tags on city property abated in 3 days and park tags in a day. So I don't know if there some priority issue within the city that is adversely affecting our neighborhood or not. I've noticed that tags on non-VTA city property in retail areas get abated in 3 days or less. I do not know if the city has been doing those or if it has been the retailers themselves.
I've been tracking the neighborhood graffiti in a spreadsheet. I do see "repeat" tags, where rival taggings occur not only over previous tags but also on adjacent structures. So basically the taggings breed like rabbits. I've also notices that structures that have been abated in ways that make it hard to tell if there ever was graffiti there seem to attract less graffiti.
I'd be willing to do some of the abatement painting on some of the affected city structures provided that the abatement kit has appropriate paint for coating the green and silver light poles. I see a lot of amateur abatement work done on some of these and the paint just peels off or gets hit again. I think it'd take 2 volunteers to keep an effective abatement vigil.
I've been tracking the neighborhood graffiti in a spreadsheet. I do see "repeat" tags, where rival taggings occur not only over previous tags but also on adjacent structures. So basically the taggings breed like rabbits. I've also notices that structures that have been abated in ways that make it hard to tell if there ever was graffiti there seem to attract less graffiti.
I'd be willing to do some of the abatement painting on some of the affected city structures provided that the abatement kit has appropriate paint for coating the green and silver light poles. I see a lot of amateur abatement work done on some of these and the paint just peels off or gets hit again. I think it'd take 2 volunteers to keep an effective abatement vigil.
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Don't you folk have a life.
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