We live at 552 South 48th Street. Our regular trash pickup day and recycling pickup day would have been Wednesday, 23 February 2005. Because Monday, 21 February was Presidents' Day, our pickups should have occurred on Thursday. Trash and recycling pickups were, however, cancelled for Thursday because of preparations for the impending snow storm. When they were rescheduled for Friday and Saturday, we had some hopes that our trash and recycling would be picked up, but it wasn't. It appears as though our entire neighborhood was in effect dropped from the collection schedule last week, as not only our trash and recycling, but also trash and recycling all over this neighborhood at most addresses, appear still to be out for collection.
Does the Streets Department have any plan for corrective action to deal with this situation?
Generally speaking, any time the trash or recycle collection is cancelled because the trucks and their crews are being used for snow-removal work, it is flat-out cancelled, not delayed as with a holiday.
The City "plan" calls for overtime the following week (i.e. scheduled pickup time) to pick up "two weeks" worth of trash. But this can be distorted both by the volume of trash involved and by the length of time the Sanitation Crews are shifted to snow removal duty. Things can get "really behind" if the trash winds up being "covered with snow," or otherwise "more difficult" to pickup because of snow drifts, bags frozen to the ground, etc.
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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