#Blight 2/2

Apr 14, 20171 min read

FREE Junk Pickup

Do you have large items such as mattresses, sofas, refrigerators, or tires, cluttering up your home or garage? San José residents with...

Dec 21, 20162 min read

The I-280 Clean-Up Volunteers And The Crazy Thing They Found

A note from Mr. Roadshow: I love getting monthly emails from Loui Tucker, the San Jose woman who has led an Adopt-A-Highway cleanup crew...

Sep 15, 20162 min read

Stamp Out Street Spam

Drive through any neighborhood in San Jose and there it is, a blight every bit as unsightly as graffiti: Nailed to street trees, duct...

Aug 14, 20162 min read

Art Box Project San Jose Turns Drab Utility Boxes Into Art

Utility boxes are for the most part rectangular, gray, metal structures housing needed electrical wiring. They are also both drab and...

Oct 19, 20151 min read

A Push for a Park on Chiechi

Blight has been a problem plaguing the Buena Vista Neighborhood for some time, one of major sources of this blight comes from the illegal...

May 11, 20131 min read

Graffiti Cleanup Planned For South Bay Freeway Overpasses

SAN JOSE — For South Bay drivers disgusted by graffiti-covered overpasses and tagged train trestles, something is finally being done. ...

Nov 26, 20105 min read

Volunteers find the most amazing things cleaning trash on highway shoulders

Why would anyone stand on the shoulder of a freeway with cars and trucks whizzing by at 65 mph, or faster, to pick up plastic bags,...