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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
The other day, I was behind a city street sweeper driving on Richmond Street (ie. Delaware Avenue in Port Richmond/Old Richmond). Of course it's brushes weren't down (why would they be), but I watched this street sweeper turn onto Girard from Richmond (with a great amount of joy, as this stretch of Girard that runs under 95 is always a mess...the city says it's the state's job and the state says it's the city's job...anyway, it's full of litter all the time and I have to open tickets with PennDot to get it cleaned, because why would PennDot do anything pro-actively). Anyways, my joy quickly turned to anger as I watched this street sweeper drive by literal mounds of trash on the shoulder of Girard cause why would a city worker in a santiation truck with street sweeping brooms not think to drop them when he saw this much trash on a city street even if it wasn't his "job" or his "zone" or whatever. The incompetence is infuriating.
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All of the on-ramps in and around the city are completely covered in litter. On some of them every square inch. The ramp between 76 and 676 east bound is a disaster zone. Like a building exploded and the just swept all of the pieces and debris to one side or the other.... the Girard Ave ramp - the gateway to the Zoo for families and tourists - is so completely covered in trash that it's a disgrace.
But this is ALL PENNDOT. The city doesn't have jurisdiction over our most traveled and highest visible streets. It's insane.
The city is spending money on some of these corridors to improve them - which I think is important - but if they can't coordinate with PENNDOT it's all for nothing.
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