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Originally Posted by Redddog
Hasn't the pilot program been going on for over a year now?
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He campaigned on a full street sweeping program to be rolled out by 2020. He didn’t deliver. And the pilot was mostly slapped together to appease people who were angry about his inaction. And in the rush to roll out a pilot to declare victory, they bought a million dollar sweeper that was the wrong size to go down many of the roads in the pilot areas.
Im glad we are getting a program. But we should have had this years ago. They could have done phases to slowly implement as example below:
Year 1: Create budgets for community groups to purchase leaf blowers
Year 2: Pilot truck sweeping in select areas
Year 3: Rollout sidewalk sweepers throughout 50% of city once a month.
Year 4: Rollout street sweeping trucks across city based on results from pilot.
We aren’t talking rocket science here. This program is basic need, not a heavy lift to implement. And honestly, after seeing sidewalks littered with needles and trash around children’s playgrounds, families in this city deserve politicians who are going to fight to implement positive changes in a timely manner, and not just kick the can down the road because it was politically inconvenient for him after the sugar tax blowback. If that makes me the bad person for wanting kids to have clean streets to play, I’m okay with that as situations like Philly having Hep A outbreaks because of lack of street sanitation or Flint not having clean water are absolutely inexcusable. We shouldn’t except subpar status quo.