Posted on 12/07/2014 3:59:55 PM PST by Steelfish
Editorial L.A. Needs A Smarter Street-Cleaning Program Now
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
Los Angeles may be gritty but it doesn't have to be trashy. The city needs a new street-cleaning program
Los Angeles has a trash problem. Streets, alleys and vacant lots are so littered with debris and garbage that a recent internal city report warned that some neighborhoods look unsafe and ungoverned. Only one-third of city streets are regularly swept. There's a backlog of 400 abandoned waste sites — trash-filled lots and the like — that need to be cleared. And until very recently, there's been no almost no enforcement of illegal dumping laws. There are few city services more basic than cleaning the streets, and L.A. needs to develop a comprehensive system for making sure it gets done.
Curbside waste and illegal dumping are long-standing issues in L.A., but they got worse after the recession and the city budget crunch. The city used to spend $12 million a year to remove abandoned waste, but much of that program was cut. The Bureau of Street Services has stopped cleaning alleys regularly and has reduced by nearly a third the number of miles of street swept because of delays in replacing retired drivers.
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Time to privatize street sweepers.
LA is inhabited by third world people now. We are just trying to make them feel at home in a third world city.
Illegal aliens = illegal dumping.
Perhaps if LA becomes a sanctuary city the hard working aliens will do the work americans won’t.
Oh, wait.
“some neighborhoods look unsafe and ungoverned.”
Some neighborhoods are unsafe and ungoverned.
It won’t be clean until it is bereft of liberals. Liberals have a way of trashing and generally stinking up a place.
How’s that diversity workin’ out for ya, KAT?
Yep, I thought that was a strange word choice on their part. Some neighborhoods look unsafe and ungoverned?? Well, if the shoe fits.............
Oop,ps, that’s LAT, not KAT.
It is all the iPad’s fault.
Bring in the third-worlders, then be surprised they’ve turned it into the third world?
I went up to the top to see if it had been written by Kat Von D. LOL
Bet there are a lot of welfare folks willing to volunteer.
To receive welfare should require some sort of community work. Street cleaning sounds perfect.
Those illegals must be just like northern liberals.
As soon as they move they start recreating the neighborhood they just left.
I drive through Pacoima daily to the airport, Every day there are new piles of crap up and down the streets, furniture,trash,appliances,cars,.. you name it. On the weekends it is like a giant flea market, you can stroll street to street and get everything you need including a Hot Meal. There at least a dozen Restaurants setup in Front Yards all through the neighborhood, complete with tables and chairs. Every Morning There is a Lady that sells Breakfast Burritos to lots and lots of people right out of her front yard on Glenoaks Blvd! Hell there is a Bicycle Store in a Front Yard on Osborne St across the street from Foothill Division LAPD Headquarters. It really is a sight to see.
One week after Christmas through March you’ll see Christmas trees dumped everywhere around my neighborhood in L.A.
Closer to the stations it wasn't like this, but there was a place like a mile away that was just a dump... You see, at the station stops the vendors get on and go through the train selling food (some of which was homemade and very good) and drinks... and then the vendors leave and the train departs. The passengers finish eating and the wrappers all get tossed out the window... and evreyone does it.
If L.A. is a shithole of litter, it decinately is becauseof the "culture" the dreamers have brought with them. I say we replace the $175k street sweepers with operators making $75k/year plus a big fat municipal pension with minimum wage employees on work release from prison. Issue them white uniforms and 2 wheels refuse totes and a broom and dustpan... Hire 1500 of them.
Get used to Angelenos, it’s going to get MUCH, MUCH WORSE.
3rd world cities aren’t 3rd world cities because of where they’re located; they’re 3rd world cities because of who lives there.
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