Yo, this garbage pickup jawn is wild, or nah?
Listen, if you been smellin' somethin' funky on your block, it ain't just the PPA after your pockets. City Hall's 311 service request data, the jawn where you call in all your problems, shows "Miscellaneous" is the top complaint. And I'm not even gonna hold you, "Miscellaneous" is code for "Where the heck is the wooder ice truck, and why is this trash still here?"
### What's Up With All the "Miscellaneous"?
Usually, we'd see specific stuff like illegal dumping or potholes, right? But this "Miscellaneous" at the top of the 311 requests means folks are calling about all kinda random mess that don't fit into a neat little box. We're talking everything from a broken street light on Girard Avenue to a rogue squirrel in someone's basement in West Philly. It's like the city's trying to figure out what y'all are really buggin' about.
This ain't just some numbers game; it's about what residents are actually experiencing. When you can't even categorize your complaint, that tells me the city needs to get a better handle on the everyday annoyances that make living here, well, *Philly*. Keep an eye on how these "Miscellaneous" complaints shake out next quarter. Will they get more specific, or will Philly just keep being Philly?
That's the jawn, Philly — we don't do fake out here.
Keisha Robinson-Moyer, MiTL Sports Desk, West Philly Morning Wire
Youse can catch me and the crew choppin' it up about this kinda stuff live every single morning, you know the drill, mornings.live.