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MIT has a snow mountain, but Allston has a trash heap
By adamg on Fri, 02/13/2015 - 11:22pm
Colleen Cressman shows us the situation on Kelton Street in Allston, where the trash collection point for several apartment buildings with the same owner has now gone a couple weeks without a trash pickup. She notes that pile is all trash, not just some bags on top of snow.
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Yuck!
Yuck!
Oh wise, all-knowing trashheap
Is it named Marjory?
What is joke?
EXplain this?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marjory
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=marjory+trash+heap
Oh, come on. It was a simple
Oh, come on. It was a simple question. You don't need to go all passive-aggressive with lmgtfy.
It's not just private contractors
Apparently this dumpster and pile is the responsibility of private contractors. But the city of Boston is leaving trash uncollected too. I called the mayors hotline twice to report a pile of trash on my street in Dorchester (now covered in a snow bank) that's been there since the first storm. I was informed on my second call that the city trash collectors are not picking up anything "covered in a snowbank". So I guess we wait until spring and provide a ready meal for rats for the next few months.
rats
No, not the ones in the state house. ;)
Yeah I'm concerned about rats too. We finally killed off most of them due to the snow, and it would be NICE that before this all melts that we start to take action against them before they start to reproduce. Removing food sources would help also.
Not dead
You just dont see them. They are there.
key word
key word there being "most", not all.
Many have died by now due to just being buried in by snow (like the ones living under the brush on the backside of the my back fence)
but yeah I'm sure there are still some left.. but not as many as before the storms..
annoying
I understand why you're annoyed, especially as you are a neighbor and not responsible for this mess. But the city is right: the onus of digging out the garbage is on the property owner/landlord, not the city.
If the owner had not put out the garbage, knowing a storm was coming and garbage pick-up was about to be delayed, he'd still have to dig it out from wherever it's stored when it's not on the curb and move it. If he left it on the curb, he still has to remove the snow before pickup. This isn't a new regulation. And garbage pickup is slowed down enough already for the very reasons traffic is slowed down. If they had to crawl over, or reach into, snowbanks to get the garbage, it would be even worse. Hard as that is to imagine.
If you want to leave an unsubtle message for your neighbor, you could print this & stick it on their front door: http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/wastereduction/placementinsnow.asp
But it would probably just end up in the snow.
You may be better off calling ISD & having them ticket your neighbor. Even better, use Citizens Connect. A financial incentive (deterrent?) to move it might work.
Citizens Connect= Mayor's Hotline
Citizens Connect is the same thing as the Mayor's Hotline. One is via internet, the other via phone. Otherwise the same thing. Anon said he or she had called the mayors hotline twice.
Yes, anon, I know it is...
...but I've had better results via Citizens Connect than by calling the hotline. Also why I said call ISD directly. The hotline seems to be the slowest way of getting a dispatch.
Only the best for Allston!
Only the best for Allston!
Slight correction, though -- it's one dumpster for several of the management company's buildings, which explains the enormity of the pile.
Fixed
Thanks!
All trash? I doubt it
This is Allston. there has to be a couch or two under there.
Not just boston
Its happening in Chelsea here.. several dumpsters near my house are just overflowing.. so bad its overflowing onto the sidewalk and has clogged the alley its in.
I understand the snow has caused alot of trash pick to be delayed, but these dumpsters are going on 3 weeks now without being emptied. And it's just going to get worse since residents just keep throwing stuff on top and it's just going to freeze together into one huge lump.
Can you call the fire department?
If a roadway or fire lane is clogged like that, will the fire department be able to compel the responsible parties to clear it?
A friend of mine in Cambridge was complaining that a street was nearly impassible, and the FD agreed with her and got the city to ban parking on that street until it was plowed enough to work.
its clear
The sidewalk is clear now.. looks like someone just threw the trash on top of the pile so it wasn't over flowing out to the sidewalk:-/
The alley isn't a passage, it's very narrow. It's really just wide enough for the dumpster (normally), as the egress is on other sides of the building (it's also a corner block).
I did file an online ticket, but stated I didnt want the guy to get a ticket, I just wanted him to clean up the trash.
A big problem is most alleys
A big problem is most alleys are now so blocked with snow the trash trucks can't navigate them to empty the dumpsters.
trash
We had the same problem over in the Fenway area. I opened 3 tickets and called the mayor's hotline 4 times. After 2.5 weeks the city finally picked the trash up yesterday.
Keep Allston shi**y
it also keeps the rents down
Lying liars
I Citizens Connected that our trash was picked up, but not our recycling.
They closed it saying all materials that were accessible had been picked up and they'd come again next trash day (which is Monday, which I'm not counting on).
The recycling was RIGHT NEXT to the trash. If one was accessible enough to be taken, so was the other! They're just flat-out lying.
Same here
I have had the same problem for the past two weeks. They have been taking the rest of the street except mine and the neighbor across the street.
Evidently I was supposed to just leave my recycling out for another two days without any advanced warning. Because they closed my Citzen Connect complaint saying there was nothing on the curb...with a picture of my curb from yesterday.
Of course there wasn't. I'm not just leaving my trash out for a week to see if it disappears later.
Same o'd, same o'd
Who does one this bloc belongs to?
I now seriously doubt the
I now seriously doubt the city's ability to handle natural or man made catastrophes. Just because of a series of snow storms, politicians are blaming each other and refusing to take accountability, there is traffic chaos everyday, roads being rerouted, trash not getting collected, public transportation is completely paralyzed, the poor and disabled are in danger of losing heat and other essential utilities. This is a truly concerning situation.