This thread is the first time I've actually heard from people who are a fan of street sweeping. I've lived all over the northeast and this is the first time I've lived in a place with regular street sweeping. I have never noticed an issue anywhere I have lived and I have certainly never noticed a "horrible smell" or "flies everywhere" or "bad flooding issues." Maybe Somerville asphalt is particularly smelly and fly infested. And from what I have seen, the street sweepers don't actually clean up the trash, they just brush it around and leave it in a different location. And the leaves are ground down into slightly smaller bits.
I had always just figured someone who ran a street sweeping business has a friend in city hall. Starting at 8am always sounded like it was done on purpose to write more tickets since the vast majority of people don't leave for work until after 8am. I'm sure the tickets fund the entire adventure.
I would be all for increased fines and towing if street sweeping was only done once a month per side (like Cambridge!) and was done during normal working hours.
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Date: 2012-10-25 10:54 pm (UTC)I had always just figured someone who ran a street sweeping business has a friend in city hall. Starting at 8am always sounded like it was done on purpose to write more tickets since the vast majority of people don't leave for work until after 8am. I'm sure the tickets fund the entire adventure.
I would be all for increased fines and towing if street sweeping was only done once a month per side (like Cambridge!) and was done during normal working hours.