Fucking good

It’s a three pronged problem. First, your trash cans disappear really quickly. The lids even quicker. Two, people pick through your trash and recycling and just toss it on the ground to get to what they want, not to mention animals do this also. And lastly, the trash men don’t give a fuck if they drop something or rip a bag and just throw your can back at your house over the cars if you still have a can

The bristles puncture bike tires. I work at a shop and we would routinely get flat fixes the days that the sweepers come through Germantown. Also, the drivers wouldn't let me pass them on my bike and then intentionally tried to run me off the road. So yes, get bikes, but street sweeping is stupid (at least how they do it in Philly)

Street sweeping hardly picks up any trash. The bristles often puncture bicycle tires and the drivers are dicks.

My observation is that most people put it out properly, but (if the garbage crew can even navigate down the street due to illegal parkers) half the bags are opened and picked over by junkies before they make the route.

Why isn’t grays ferry on this list? So sick of trash blowing all over the street and in front of my house from elsewhere!

Did you feel that way as a teenager?

People apparently don't know how to even throw their trash away--it certainly exacerbates the sporadic service we've been dealing with the past few years

Getting up before sunrise virtually every day of high school is brutal.

Don’t worry. They’ll get everyone.

I live in the pilot neighborhood and they didn’t really start ticketing hard the first year. Last year, they were bloodthirsty.

Gauthier deserves a lot of props for her bike lane expansion work.

Thank you for this. I agree it would be a lot, but it would be worth it.

This. I moved from Philly to Wilmington and the city provides large, heavy duty, lidded recycling and garage bins for every residence. The bins don't blow over. They don't break and the lids don't fall off.

Yea, ol' Wilma is a smaller city and it would be costly for the city of Philadelphia to provide every residential building these bins, but it is working for us. There is no trash all over the street UNLESS a neighbor is not using a city provided garbage bin and is choosing to use their own open garbage can (I am looking a you, person down the street!). The loose recycling IS a problem.

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Man, everyone just get bikes.

This is what happened last time. PPA would write you a ticket for not moving your car and street sweepers would never show up. Then streets dept would say it was cause cars didn't move. So one asshole wouldn't move his car and the cleaning crew would just skip your block. So you are inconvenienced for no reason.

My question is this... So when I travel for work....where the hell do I put my car? Pay for a lot spot for weeks?

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This wasn’t the city, these are props for a heat style heist

Cancel trash pickup too. People will learn real fast to move their cars. Their neighbors will make sure of it.

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It’s really not. I look around my neighborhood every day. I never see rotting food. I never see ANYTHING on the ground that doesn’t look like someone thought they could recycle it. Why does everyone think this issue is impossible? Other cities don’t have this problem? Other cities can’t deal with it?

I have a car and no off-street parking. I think the difference is I didn’t grow up in Philly so the idea that this is the only way it can be isn’t seared I to my brain.

Agreed. Only people who are celebrating this are people without cars, people who live in areas that have abundant parking, or people who have off street parking.