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1. : Street cleaning has stopped! This is penny-wise (perhaps) and pound foolish. The build up of post winter dust and gravel is dangerous for cyclists and damaging to roads and air quality. The now rotted to mud leaves are a public safety, health and aesthetic hazard.
We can sweep all of this detritus to the drains and then create a further complication or we can continue to advise you and be ignored. Our street, High Park Avenue, takes a lot of traffic and the buses kick up the dust to our detriment. Humberside has piles that block the drainage. Pacific Avenue, outside No Frills, is a disgusting mess.
It is cheaper and easier to remove this mess while it is above ground rather than compromising our storm sewers and requiring a vacuum truck after the fact.
2. On behalf of Councillor Doucette, thank you for contacting our office. Councillor Doucette has also been concerned about the lack of street sweeping in our area. When she contacted Transportation about this, she was told that while there were three trucks in our area, there is currently only one person qualified to drive these trucks due to retirement. Due to a hiring freeze imposed as part of budget discussions, Transportation is unable to hire additional staff at this time.
The above being said, I will make another request to Transportation to have High Park Avenue and Pacific Avenue swept as soon as possible.
How many Millions of $$$ of equipment is sitting idle like this?? This is stupidity personified.
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