How about regular street sweeping to start off with? There was supposedly a schedule for alternate side parking a while back. No one followed it (not even public works!), no street sweepers came to clean or they would come and clean both sides of the street despite the whole idea of alternate side parking. I know for a fact that the East Side gets cleaned quite frequently with vacuums and street cleaners coming up and down Bishop Ave but Wayne St gets cleaned maybe once or twice a year and even then it's not a great job because people are parked on the street when they come to clean. It's almost a joke the way the North End gets treated compared to the rest of the city. The biggest problem that we have where I am on Wayne St is that people chuck their glass alcohol bottles and they break all over the place. There are no vacuums to come up and down to clean that stuff up.

Several years ago we had a meeting at Blackham about issues in the North End. We were promised a monthly meeting, but we've had exactly one since then.
At the meeting, one of the things we were told was that the police department would have the radar detector on Wayne Street in order to record traffic speed because of issues with speeding. It's never been put there.
Houses all over the place are in terrible shape. One on Peet Street near Glendale has been reported multiple times, the side of the house is actually falling off, trees are falling down, weeds growing out of the drainpipes.
House on the corner of Glendale and Primrose is lovely, however the trees on the side of the property completely block view of oncoming traffic from Primrose onto Glendale.
House on the corner of Madison and Queen is in forclosure. The back door is frequently open, the front door is frequently open, there is a large hornets nest in the side window. Windows to the house are open.
Little League season is starting which means the fields will be open and will be attracting people other than kids and parents to the area. There have been people killed there, yet patrols don't seem any more frequent. We were promised more police presence and we haven't seen it.
Dead end at Peet and Queen. House is a disaster. Parties almost every weekend with bottles and garbage all over the place and drunk drivers flying up and down the road. Fence has fallen down, furniture in the front and back yard. It won't be long before rats move in with comfy sleeping areas and the garbage that they just stack up against the wall. That corner is also a school bus stop, so god knows what kids are being exposed to every day.
Glendale between Peet and Main street is pretty much just pot holes with a little asphalt holding it together.

Yes and as far as Wayne St goes, I don't have a driveway and I live in the S curve. I hear tires squealing all the time when people fly around either part of the curve. I'm tired of my car getting hit. I recently got a new car and I park on one of the side streets instead of outside my front door and it's inconvenient especially when the weather is bad or I have groceries. Despite the fact that several vehicles have been totaled at this part of Wayne St by hitting cars, trees or a ending up underneath a porch nothing has been done to curb the speed on this street!

The intersection of Madison Ave & Westfield finds people not even stopping at those stop signs. Same with Savoy and Wayne! That intersection is good for people doing that as well.

I've been hearing a lot of police cars flying through the neighborhood lately too. It comes in waves but I'm always concerned about all of the kids in the area whether it's Wayne St, Blackham or Madison Schools who are walking home from school or playing out front who may get hit by a careless driver.

Lindley St is also narrow, especially in areas where people are parked on both sides and with the school being over there I'm also seeing people drive very fast and/or going through the stop signs there as well.

With the amount of distracted and careless drivers out there it's always a concern.

As far as houses looking bad, banks and landlords need to be accountable for property management. A lot of banks don't care and where landlords are renting to irresponsible SHU kids as long as they have their $ on time they don't seem to care either. Start slapping blight liens on these houses as the complaints are received. I know there are a limited amount of people who have to make their rounds in the city but stuff like this needs to be addressed much faster than they are now. It's effecting our property values and as a Realtor it also effects whether my colleagues and I are able to sell a house next door because buyers don't just evaluate the house but they evaluate the house's surroundings.

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Thank you for reporting the issue to the City of Bridgeport. The City, City Council Members and Sacred Heart University (SHU) officials has been working to address the issues associated with SHU students in Bridgeport’s North End. There will be stricter enforcement of city ordinances that includes parking enforcement and motor vehicle violations this fall.