They can clean all day everyday, but the problem will always be the residents of Philly. It's sad to see a beautiful historical city in those conditions.
It's a combination of people littering, trash collection breaking and spilling trash and no effort by the city to collect it. When that happens people are like f it! And compound the problem. I moved away when I went to college more than 30 years ago and those streets look ridiculous. It's embarrassing.
This is wonderful news!!!! I have lived long enough in inner-city Philadelphia,Pa to remember when trash was picked up on Tuesday and garbage was picked up on Thursday. The sanitation engineer made certain that the trash can was completely empty. If trash fell onto the ground while they were putting it into the truck they swept up the trash in the street and on the curb and put it in the truck trash. The trash cans were returned to the curb in a standing- up position. Each day there were trash pickers that walked the neighborhoods to remove litter. The street washer trucks would come after the trash trucks would come wash, and brush the street as a result of the residue from the leaking trash trucks. The sewers were cleaned several times a year. The junk trunks would come to remove old furniture, metals, other things on Fridays. Cars could not be parked on the streets that were scheduled for the sweeper truck, so that the curb gutter could be cleaned. Litter did not exist even in the poorest neighborhoods.
I live in Parkside and saw the signs last year. We never had any street sweeper vehicles come through. Cars were never ticketed or towed. We sometimes have guys in high visibility vests picking up litter, but they do a half-assed job. I pick up more trash on the weekends than they do and I do it for free.
Yea, putting trash cans out on the corners proved to be a waste of money, 500 to 600 tons of trash a week!!!!btw who’s throwing the diapers in the parking lots. Not a day goes by I don’t see a full diaper in a parking lot, used to be just in the hood, now it’s up in what used to be the northeast, but now it’s just north Philly.
Why did it stop? Isn't that just a normal part of city management? There should be an app to report abandoned piece of furniture, shopping carts, person living in a public space, storm drain blocked. Then, the city can take care of it. People want to live in a clean safe place.
There is a non truck mounted device called " Street Sweeper " that would be very good at clearing the streets in crime ridden areas. One of the tag lines in an ad was " It's time for spring cleaning . . . ."
They won't be doing my neighborhood, because the residents do it themselves. The city will only do it in neighborhoods where the residents happily wallow in their own mess waiting for someone else to clean up after them. Once again we're wasting money on the "coddled" class
Folks always waiting for the city to do this or do that folks need to do things for themselves…teach the kids how to keep things clean because it’s way to late for the lazy adults to be taught…why is it always the neighborhoods that get these services…you know the neighborhoods that already put a strain on the city’s finances with crime and welfare…smh.
