After years of traversing the City of Los Angeles, it's pretty funny that the strangest route I've ever come across happens to be West LA route AA6 (the route my street is included on).
As Los Angeles has grown over the years, so has the Los Angeles International Airport. In 1999, the airport began a voluntary buyout program of an adjacent neighborhood, the "Manchester Square" section of Westchester, due to noise complaints from residents and to commence the possibilities of future airport expansion. Over the years, more and more houses have disappeared and today there are fewer than 10 single family homes out of hundreds originally, and some oddball apartments. Often described as a park or prairie (or "Little Detroit") by locals, many streets have become a free campground for squatters which has caused quite the dispute between them, the original residents and the city. The rest of the properties will be eminent domain'd in the near future and the neighborhood will be turned into a giant rental car/transportation hub for the airport.
As with every household in the city, the Bureau of Sanitation pulls through every week to grab the trash. The recycling and green waste trucks just quickly run through and grab their few houses, but trash has a fun time. Many of the apartments that line the outside of the neighborhood are collected by the city, despite the fact that they're more than 4 units, and they don't have recycling and green waste service either which is very, very odd. To get even weirder, nearly all of the apartments are vacant and boarded up with LAX's restricted access signs posted. So why in the world do they still have trash cans, and how do they magically fill up with trash every week? Good question.
Anyways, disregarding the oddball apartments, many of the homeless encampments have grabbed cans from wherever and my trash driver will collect them out of the kindness of his heart, to help them out and to keep the streets clean(er). The actual houses are interesting because the city's rollout program that got the rest of Westchester in 2009 and 2010 never came through here, so many of them still have their original carts from the mid '90s.
This is a 2005 Peterbilt 320/Amrep Automated. Thanks to the driver; he's only been doing my route since late 2015 but he's been in my general area for as long as I can remember.
25 фев 2017
