Mayor's Office Comes Through

  Thanks to Tim from the Mayor's Office for urging DPW to quickly pick up the bulk items and lose trash bags last week.  It was so nice to come home to an alley without a house-full of furniture decorating the alleyway! 

I Think I'd Prefer the Snow

As soon as I drove through the alley this afternoon, I emailed my next door neighbors to avert their gaze when coming home--the alley was looking down right offensive. Offensive may have been an euphemism. Today was first regular day of trash collection following Snowmaggedon. These pictures are taken AFTER the trash was collected. As they show, there are three piles of illegally dumped bulk items that have emerged from under the snow. To compliment them, you'll also find several trash bags and boxes left behind by the sanitation workers because they were not placed in the Supercans. There is also trash from open trash bags strewn throughout.

We've been struggling to get DPW to enforce the sanitation rules for months but to little avail. Residents are free to "dispose" of trash how every they choose because there are no ramifications. I thought the city needed money?? Forget increasing parking meter fees--there is a goldmine in potential sanitation fines.



I told my fiance that when I loaded these pictures along with photos from his recent trip to Africa, for a second when the pictures of our alley photos loaded-- I didn't realize they were photos of DC--I thought they were in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria! No joke.

At least four neighbors called 311 before the snow to report the illegal dumping. We'll see if DPW gets around to picking it up this week. We'll keep our fingers crossed.