Todd Acres Drive is one of the City of Mobile's poorly maintained roadways. Signs and guardrails are obsecured by overgrown weeds. Some roadside lots have becoming illegal dump sites that haven't been cleaned up in years. The Rabbit Creek bridge has become a popular place to dump trash over the side. The poorly policed roadway has even become a popular illegal dragstrip.
Todd Acres Drive is a good example of what happens when a City annexes an area so it can reap in tax revenue from nearby business districts while it saves money by neglecting the newly annexed roads.
Todd Acres Drive is a known illegal trash dump site. If I know it then City officials should know it. Illegal trash dump sites should receive more police attention and the roadsides should be monitored for trash and cleaned by the City work force as needed to keep it clean.
For a city to just ignore the community trash thrown over a bridge onto the edge of a creek along a known dump site is merely a reflection of the City's lack of committment to deal with its MS4 waterway pollution problem.
People are not stupid. When it comes to polluted roadsides and bridge areas they see the City of Mobile and ALDOT do not give a shit so why should they? This road was trashed last year and it is still trashed this year, especially at the Rabbit Creek bridge crossing.
I guess the more money a City and State can save by not maintaining roadsides is more money coniving leaders can find a way to make disappear.