I have lived in Houston for nearly 56 years, and I have never seen a mayor be so incapable of managing this city. There are very few days when the media does not have to contact the city to get them to do what they are supposed to do. The most recent is below.
Our neighborhood is doing better, but it is just the recycling bins that have been out on the street for a week.
When the garbage reaches a point where people can no longer place it in the bins, they will resort to whatever means necessary to dispose of it. They will start dumping it in empty lots, which we have many since the county decided to buy out many of those properties. Or they will dump it into the bayou so that it can flow downstream. I have seen them do it on Brays Bayou. Ask them, and they will tell you that the city has left no choice but to address the problem by any means necessary.
Those people who voted for four years made a big mistake; the more often they have to run, the better they tend to perform.
Residents in a northeast Houston neighborhood said they had to call, file 311 reports, and flag down garbage trucks to have their trash picked up. Their trash service was a week late, and their recycling was overdue.
Amberly Jones said the longer the trash sat out, the fewer people could enjoy their yards or walks in the neighborhood.
“Maggots, the smell, it’s like rotten eggs; the dogs were in the neighbor’s garbage cans,” Jones said.
Jones and her neighbors were annoyed after Houston Solid Waste missed last Thursday’s trash pick-up and were mad again after it missed their neighborhood for a second week.
“This is the first time that it lasted this long from not picking up the regular trash that we had to walk down the street and find someone else’s trash can to empty to put trash in the trash bag,” neighbor Regina Gill said.
For more than a week now, Jones and Gill said they have called the city but that their complaints were never escalated. They put in 311 requests, but said they would be marked as complete even though no garbage truck ever came.
