Description
No matter how many times the DPW is called (and that has been MANY times) trash collectors continually leave the trash carts right in the middle of driveways. With the way people speed up and down Middle St., residents take big chances having to stop their cars to move those trash carts--other cars come too close to hitting them.
Trash collectors ought to take the extra couple of seconds to make sure the carts are NOT left in the middle of peoples driveways.
5 Comments
m (Guest)
Are you sure they didn't blow into the way or something? Because I notice that alot. That is due to people not putting them away in a timely fashion. But that is understandable because people are at work.
Not sure I understand your complaint about them being in driveways. Isn't that better than being in the road? Maybe your meaning trying to pull into a driveway and the can is in the way and people almost hit them while they are moving the can?
Smitty (Guest)
Those city supplied trash carts don't blow around. As the truck comes around, the carts are emptied and left where they come off the lifting appliance on the truck and left there. When cars stop so the driver can move the catrs to get into their driveway, their cars are almost hit by other cars.
dastuka (Guest)
The heavier the better but I have seen the trash collectors just throw the barrels on the sidewalk , sometimes in the st. between cars. Usually the barrels land on their sides. The landlords and my neighbors in this area must have lost 12 barrels in the last few years. I do what I can but its not my problem since I just rent.
Smitty (Guest)
As of the beginning of April 2012, it's still happening. It seems that the later the collection is the more the collectors don't take those extra few seconds. The way the drivers are around here, no matter if the car signal is on (or the four ways) when someone has to stop in the street because the barrels are in the driveway, they take their lives in their own hands! One of these days, a stopped car IS going to be rear-ended.
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