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To Public Works - please explain:
Why are there 2 seperate rules for different neighborhoods regarding street sweeping? In the 'less suburban' areas of New Haven, there is a 'TAG AND TOW' policy which means when street signs are posted for street sweeping - your car can and most likely will be tagged and towed if on the street where cleaning is scheduled to take place. But in the 'non-inner-city' areas, the policy on the City of New Haven Public Works website clearly reads '...Tag and Tow doesn’t operate in the following neighborhoods'. See the policy below taken directly from the City Public Works webpage (http://cityofnewhaven.com/PublicWorks/sweep/index.asp):
Tag and Tow Routes include:
Route # 2 - Beaver Hills
Route # 3 – Newhallville & Prospect & Grove
Route # 4 – East Rock & Cedar Hill
Route # 5 - Fair Haven(from Blatchley Ave)
Route # 8 - Wooster Square & Fair Haven (to Blatchley Ave)
Route #10 - West River & Dwight Edgewood
Route # 12 – Hill (North)
Route #13 – Hill (South) & City Point
No Tag and No Tow Routes include:
Route # 1 – Amity/West Rock
Route # 6 – Fair Haven Heights & Foxon
Route # 7 – Fair Haven Heights & Annex
Route # 9 – Downtown (during evening hours)
Route #11 – Westville
Route # 14 – Annex & East Shore
Route # 15 – Morris Cove & East Shore
Please explain.
2 Comments
jane doe (Guest)
Wow interesting, and good question. I for one do not mind if they tow over here. I want my streets cleaned and one car can hide alot of trash.
I am guessing that the areas that are not tag and tow are cleaner areas...meaning everyone does pick up the trash in front of there houses and on the curb strip regularly. In my area many, almost all...for some reason do not pick the trash that is on the sidewalk and in the roadway in front of there homes (they think it is the citys job?)
but still a cool find....I would like to thank who ever posted it for including Cedar HIll made me smile.
Closed Rob Smuts (Registered User)
The policy of the City is to clean streets to a level necessary to protect the environment, public safety and neighborhood cleanliness standards with the least disruption possible. In some areas with fewer cars on the streets, we are able to sweep without towing cars. In other areas, we have to tow in order to get the streets cleaned. Contrary to what most people believe, the City loses money on street sweeping tows and only tows when it is absolutely necessary to clean the streets. We have significantly increased our notifications both by paper-posting all routes in advance and by using our "reverse 911" call system, and have reduced annual tows from 20,421 in 2006 to 4,237 last year because of these changes. We really would prefer not to tow cars - it is costly for us and obviously a big nuisance for those who are towed - but we need to clean the streets.
Interestingly, the most tows of any route occur in East Rock by a large margin. The next most tows are in Dwight, particularly on the heavily student streets. For whatever reason, Yale students seem particularly bad at remembering to move their cars.
- Rob Smuts, Chief Administrative Officer