Monday, November 09, 2009

Oakland Adams Point residents concerned about Round Table Pizza

Business is vitally important to the energy and safety of Oakland's Adams Point / Lake Merritt neighborhood (defined by Grand Avenue, Harrison Avenue, and the I-580 Freeway) but it's a two way street: the retailers must take steps to maintain a safe district too.


Pizza's great; is the car double parked?  

Round Table Pizza on Grand and Staten Avenues does well with the pizza delivery side of its business. But that success, and the need to keep the facility's carpet clean, has caused a parking and street traffic problem on Staten. Solving the issue was the objective behind two messages left on the Adams Point Action Council Yahoo Group forum:

Hi Name Withheld,

I wanted to bring to your attention that Round Table Pizza on Grand @ Staten is in a pattern of ordering steam cleaning of its carpets every few months that is very loud and goes from about 10:00-11:30pm. They have a truck come that parks on the street and runs a loud generator out of the truck. I brought the issue to the manager a few months back and he told me he would "look into" having the cleaning happen at a different time (although I got the impression he was just blowing me off). I went just now as I noticed again a loud humming in my apartment and the manager on site said he didn't know how to change this (he also didn't seem very accomodating) . He told me the place opens at 11:00am after he told me they couldn't steam the carpets in the morning. I don't think I am getting anywhere going directly to them, so your assistance in this matter would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Name and Address withheld

This was the "Friends Of Lake Merritt Response":

Posted by: "Friends of Lake Merritt" friendsoflakemerritt@yahoo.com friendsoflakemerritt
Sun Nov 8, 2009 7:48 am (PST)

The carpet cleaning must be a nuisance to those who live nearby - but there is an ongoing problem with the Round Table on Grand that impacts on a much larger population, and is potentially fatal: The Round Table delivery cars double park in the middle of Staten, which means that part of Staten becomes a one-lane road for a big hunk of the evening. This is especially dangerous because people turn right off of Grand with very little warning that there might be an oncoming car trying to get around the delivery vehicles by going into the "wrong" lane. I wonder why the army of parking citation vultures that our City Council unleashed on the populace this past summer missed that lucrative little corner, and how many accidents this has already caused.

The best answer is for the Round Table Pizza delivery drivers to park in front of the establishment on Grand Avenue, where there's a larger lane for parking and three lanes, than on Staten Avenue, which isn't designed to handle the constant double parking practice. Let's see if the Round Table Pizza franchise manager now responds to the resident's complaints.

I hope so.

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