Speaking of littering...

[boywonder.livejournal.com]

...has anyone noticed the number of "Reminders" about street cleaning blowing down the streets? I counted 6 on my walk home from work tonight. Aside from the littering aspect, there has to be a greener way to notify residents about street cleaning than printing up full sized sheets of paper to put on all the cars parked on Somerville streets.

I didn't actually read it, just could see that it was reminding residents street cleaning begins April 1st. Does anyone know if this was executed by the city itself?

Comments

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

There is a greener way: the email reminders, as already set-up by the city. However, until everyone has access to email, I appreciate the back-up paper reminder (which is only issued at the beginning of the season, not every sweeping day).

[ron_newman]

Also robo-calls, which the city usually does a few days before April 1.

[boywonder.livejournal.com]

If people aren't responsible enough to read parking signs when they park their cars, especially if they live in the city of Somerville and are aware that street sweeping occurs, then they deserve to get a ticket. Yeah, sometimes we forget and rush around in the morning to move the car or come outside to find a ticket, but that just comes with living in a large city.

It's a waste of money and resources to print out all of those fliers. It's even worse because people just throw the reminders onto the ground and clutter up the streets and sidewalks. Robo-calls and emails are plenty for extra reminders about the issue, no need to create more waste.

[gruene.livejournal.com]

It increases the number of people who move their cars when street sweeping starts, meaning the streets get cleaner sooner, so therefore is not a waste. For everyone person like you who is offended, there are probably ten who appreciate the reminder.

[boywonder.livejournal.com]

I'd rather the city ticket those people who don't move on the first go around, generate some income, and then those people who were ticketed will now be hyper-aware of the dates of street sweeping. everyone wins.

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

Nothing on the sign says when the street sweeping is in effect. If it was, I would think that paper reminders are not necessary. But I'm glad I got mine yesterday.

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

My signs in my neighborhood (Ward 7) say No Parking on x day April through December...with the December a Sticker over the previous month which was either October or November, so they do say dates, as far as I know.

[boywonder.livejournal.com]

Yes, the signs do clearly indicate when street cleaning is in effect. Specifically, which days and from what time.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that the city is looking to prevent the "I didn't know it was sweep time and you're just trying to make money off my mistake" calls that they probably get at the beginning of April every year.

I'm also guessing that the non-color Xeorxing is a pretty negligible expense.

As for the waste, hopefully continually more people will have access to the various types of non-paper reminders so that, over the next few years, the city can phase this out.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Must be the season. Goodwill flyered several streets last weekend; of course, most people just took the flyers off their windshields and threw them in the street (or the wind blew them off). I picked up about a dozen within half a block of my house.

[ron_newman]

What was Goodwill trying to advertise?

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

"Children's clothes are back."

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Why were children's clothes gone, and why are they back? I vaguely remember a sign in the store about legal liability or something.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

What I recall is that there was some (Federal?) law about children's items needing to meet certain standards - probably due to all the cases of Chinese-made children's items being full of lead and other bad stuff - which had many small crafters, and apparently Goodwill, afraid to sell/resell children's things.

But since I don't buy or make things for children, I stopped paying attention to how it was playing out.

[ceo]

Well, the littering is OK, since they're about to clean the streets anyway, right?

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Win

[masswich.livejournal.com]

Heehee

If there was no litter...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

there would be no reason to clean the streets!