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NerdDexter t1_jd5pkpb wrote

Reply to comment by SweetJibbaJams in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215

Yeah the only people who like this are people without cars or people who have off street parking.

The street cleaners are barely gonna make any noticeable difference when it comes to how filthy our city is, but now we have to remember to move our cars every single week and find parking when one entire side of the street is off limits. Hard enough to find parking when both sides of the street are available.

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PopularPopulist t1_jd5mgqv wrote

Reply to Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215

I wish someone would listen: It’s NOT THE TRASH, it’s the un-bagged recycling that is covering our streets. Please, actually look around; it’s not dirty diapers, it’s not piles of uneaten food covering our streets. When you see “trash” on the ground PLEASE ask yourself: “does this look like stuff my neighbors would try to recycle?” 9 out of 10 times, it is.

This is because the city has a rule against bagging recycling. And since we can’t use bags, stuff falls out of our recycling bins- Usually from when it’s really windy, or when the recycling people dump the bins and stuff falls out (or gets stuck in the bins and then falls out when it gets thrown back to the curb). I’m not saying nobody is to blame here, but I’m telling you that street sweeping won’t fix the cause of the problem: un-bagged recycling.

Inevitably, someone chimes in with “the recycling plants can’t handle stuff in plastic bags” as if it’s too expensive to hire someone with a knife to open the bags before the stuff is sorted. Nah, we can’t do that. Much too hard.

Every time I say this stuff I get downvotes because it doesn’t fit this sub’s weird narrative about who is at fault, but please, just once, compare what your sidewalk looks like the day BEFORE recycling day, and the day AFTER. Look around at what’s covering the street. 9 out of 10 times it’s un-bagged recycling.

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TheTwoOneFive t1_jd5f6lq wrote

Reply to comment by Away_Swimming_5757 in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215

It took a full street sweeping season before they would allow PPA to ticket cars. We are about to start the 2nd season after the expansion to 14 areas and they have announced it will be another season and a half away before the next expansion in July 2024. At that point, they will add 6 more areas.

Based on average size of the areas, in July 2024, five years after they started the "pilot programs", the city will cover about 8% of the city surface area with street sweeping zones, and that does not include the smaller streets. For example, in the Point Breeze Map area, the city is missing tons of smaller side streets that are wide enough for a sweeper, but requires cars to be moved to do so (e.g. Fernon, Chadwick, Mole, Hicks, etc). Additionally, there are streets that a sweeper can get down even if someone is still parked there, like Montrose or Oakford, but are not getting swept currently.

There is ZERO reason it should take this long to roll out street sweeping to such a small area, without even a public timeline on a full rollout.

Source 1 (Timeline), Source 2 (Point Breeze Map - PDF)

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oramirite t1_jd5f2y8 wrote

Reply to comment by Thot_P0cket in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215

No, a pilot program is literally so that any problems in the rollout(any large rollout ever has them) have a minimal financial effect, and then you very quickly bootstrap those lessons into the wider plan. What you're suggesting wouldn't even speed things up that much and very well could doom the program again if a small issue runs amok because they opened the floodgates too early.

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HistoricalSubject t1_jd5e4bq wrote

Reply to comment by ThereAreDozensOfUs in Lower Merion again delays implementing later start times for high school — until 2024 by Dryheavemorning

if i was a student, i wouldn't want this. if i have to be in school for a MANDATORY amount of hours each day, i'd rather it be an hour earlier than an hour later. i'd rather be trapped and tired that first, earlier hour than trapped and antsy that last, later hour. i will be curious what the students think about this over the next few school years in schools that do the adjustment.

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felldestroyed t1_jd5e127 wrote

Reply to comment by GruffEnglishGentlman in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215

Lol, yup, just as easy as that. No one will be harmed! It's not rocket science, it's common sense yall! Until your entire district is lighting up your switchboards wondering why noone informed them and why the hell we even need street cleaning - it was fine to your constituents before now. And the retiree really hates that you towed her car and she knows how she will get back at you: a primary.
You act like this isn't something that hasn't been studied for around 150 years. That the first Roosevelt didn't struggle implementing - that every single politician and city manager implements. There are doctorates in this and they still can't solve it. And fortunately for these neighborhoods: they won't just be railroaded any longer, like they were for at least 3 generations with highways, railways, and shitty gentrification.

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