Interactive Map: Syringes And Poop Have Spiked On SF Streets, Says Annual City Report
by Caleb Pershan in News on Nov 1, 2016 11:45 am
4808710092_0e242fd12c_z.jpg
staxnet via Flickr
It's that time of year again! 2003's Prop C mandated that the beautiful City of San Francisco issue an annual report on the state of our dear sweet streets and sidewalks, and here that is, once again: The Street and Sidewalk Maintenance Standards Annual Report.
To produce the report, issued last week for Fiscal Year 2015-2016, inspectors from contractor JBR Partners walked 183 selected routes in town — about half of them commercial, half of them residential — at the midpoint in the week between street cleanings. Compared to FY 2014-15, these inspectors found less litter and grime on streets, with about twice as many routes free from "excessive" litter.
That's the good news, here's the bad: The big three hazards on streets — feces, needles, and condoms, or FNC as they're known in the biz — were spotted more often than last year along residential routes, though inspectors found conditions to be roughly the same on commercial routes.
http://sfist.com/2016/11/01/map_waste_syringes_feces_have_spike.php
