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I was more amused than horrified when I travelled through Mexico by train in 1992 or 1993... all the way from Juarez to Mexico City to Vera Cruz to Tapachula to Ciudad Hidalgo on the Guatemala border. about 1 mile before and after EVERY station stop, the right-of way became a GARBAGE DUMP of plastic wrappers, bags, bottles, dirty diapers, you name it.

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.