New Automated Trash Pickup Suffers Delays – And It's Your Fault!
The learning curve on properly positioning trash carts is climbing slowly for some Wauwatosa residents – and that slows trucks that now have only one operator.
Before the Public Works Department deployed its five brand-new, state-of-the-art garbage trucks a few weeks ago, it advised residents to make sure they had their trash carts out on the curb by 7 a.m. The system, with automated arms grabbing our carts, lifting and spilling their contents into the trucks' hoppers, would be so much faster, officials said, you might just be bypassed if you lingered too long over your morning coffee. Hasn't happened. In fact, some routes have gone unfinished on their scheduled pickup day and had to be taken up again the following morning. At least one Friday route had to be carried over into Saturday morning. But the blame for that lies not with the trucks, nor with their drivers – it is on us. Our bad. "The …
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Mary Guentner
11:27 pm on Thursday, July 26, 2012
I own a duplex with a 20 foot wide lot. I live between two other duplexes, I think their lots are also 20 feet wide. No idea how each house is supposed to fit 4 cats in that area and still be able to get out of the drive way. Great planning on Tosa's part! more ›