What is wrong with JTA and the COJ?

[Captain Zissou]

^That could just be somebody's lunch that they got to go and they ate it at the bus stop. My dinner last night came in an identical bag and it would look the same way in a trash can.  That's a massive can and a couple large dinners wouldn't cause it to overflow like that.  Clearly the can hasn't been emptied in days if not weeks.  One person misusing the can isn't to blame, it's COJ who has dropped the ball.

You're right it's not jsut one person's trash. As Ock pointed out in his original post - this can is right next to the San Jose Manor (retirement) Apartments.

So you are saying that senior citizens are leaving their self-contained environment with dozens of receptacles and countless staff to go fill up this trash can?  They use shuttles to do much of their traveling, which would drop them off at the door of the apartments, not the bus stop.  They, who have impared mobility, are venturing out over 100 yards to dispose of their trash, while bypassing a number of cans on the way.   Makes sense....

[unifiedthought]

From our experience in dealing with JTA in the neighborhood I wouldn't be so fast to congratulate them on a job well done. Trash pickup is a contracted job with, according to JTA, a $26 per pickup per location up to X number of pickups per month. I don't remember that number X.  A number of times, members of our neighborhood association have emptied a container to prevent it looking like the one in the photo. We even have small wastebaskets attached to bus stop poles where there is no cover or seating to remind riders and others to not throw their trash on the ground. We empty those regularly. JTA signed off on our waste collection efforts.

First I would like to say I was not entirely aware of trash pickup by JTA was contracted out. I just wonder why the job has to be contracted.

When I think of trash pickup for bus stops I see a truck that is driven across all the routes. It has the little light on top and everything is fine.

I don't see the truck and the guy as working for a different company than JTA.

In short all I am saying is that the job should be JTA's alone, and none of it should be contracted to any person with random interests that are obviously amounting to various problems of sub-par-service across Jacksonville for JTA.

It would be nice to see accountability for a bus stop coming directly from JTA and not the trash contractor.