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Do You Want Your 96 Gal Container In The Front Yard or the Alley?

By OldSouthEndBrdy - Posted on November 17th, 2007
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I Can See A Lot of Problems With This
Submitted by OldSouthEndBrdy on Sat, 2007-11-17 13:09.

Some of the ones I see: 1. Put it in the front yard, and I suppose the container is hefted on with some kind of boom. Does that put an end to on-street parking, at least during collection day? I can just see the 96 gallon container smashing into someone's "classic", and causing a civil suite; 2. In the alley: my neighbor visitors park in her back yard off the alley. I am sure she's not going to like this. Another neighbor always wants the area in front of her house free so she can be easily picked up (she is handicapped). Either way, I imagine people will be inconvenienced. And who pays for the containers that are dented by speeders in the alley; 3. If the city allows people to opt out of the automated recycling will they have to pay extra for the three-man crew? This seems only fair.

They probably can't go in the alley
Submitted by Handbanana on Sat, 2007-11-17 13:58.

The arms on the automated trucks swing out when they empty the cans. Most alleys don't have enough room.

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somehow...
Submitted by LisaRenee on Sat, 2007-11-17 14:35.

Many other cities all over America have managed to switch to this type of trash collection, which means it's obviously possible...

http://www.ci.valparaiso.in.us/pw/TrashPickup/TrashPickupMailer.pdf

Brochure that gives information as to a similar system...

There's even video, no sound but think you can get the idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56zfEhQsz2s

Video with sound on similar system is here on the sidebar for both those with high speed and dial up
connections here:

http://www.yorkcounty.gov/eds/garbage.htm

Lisa, I Agree That It Should Work
Submitted by OldSouthEndBrdy on Sat, 2007-11-17 14:46.

...I park my car in the garage, but my next door neighbor has never moved her car (even for street cleaning). Though she may the first time they bang up her car getting at the garbage. Check my post on www.toledotalk.com about this. I have a video from Moline, Illinois showing the "do's" and "don'ts".

Its in AA
Submitted by chrismyers on Sat, 2007-11-17 14:53.

It has been in Ann Arbor as long as I have been going there and I kept wondering why Toledo has not implemented a system. It is clean and quick and the truck only has one driver. I am glad they are thinking about implementing this type of a system.

I could see parking a problem because the truck must get near the can in order for it to pick up the can, especially areas where there is parking on both sides of the street.

Chris, One Difference Between Toledo and AA
Submitted by OldSouthEndBrdy on Sat, 2007-11-17 15:28.

... is the public ethos. The students at AA are probably still idealistic, and want to "change the world". Toledo's old, blue-collar population just wants to see things done without much work. AA will do things as they should be done, Toledo will try to make things harder for the "new guys". So the drivers will have to deal with cars parked strategically in their way, and people wondering why the city doesn't take their old furniture now?

:)
Submitted by OhioKat on Sun, 2007-11-18 00:04.

If they want to use the alley behind my house they'll have to start sending someone out to mow it since it's a grass alley. Heck if they can send crews out just to clean the alleys in the inner city then they can send em out to mow ours anyways as far as I'm concerned.

It would work fine on my
Submitted by tm on Wed, 2007-11-21 09:24.

It would work fine on my street. But by in-laws street wouldn't work, its too small. They have there cars banged up by the regular garbage trucks as it is. Its a one way street and absolutly NO driveways so there is no way for the people on that street to even move their cars for pick-up.

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