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[quote=Anonymous]There's a robust thread on the other popular DC-area blog/forum about people being ticketed for not moving their cars for street sweeping when street sweeping isn't actually happening. Given that only a small percentage of blocks in DC are eligible for street sweeping, and that trash people toss their trash everyone all over the place, why are we still using these large, dirty machines to occasionally blow dirt around on certain roads?

Why not have humans do this job by hand? BIDs and HOAs already do this, so those neighborhoods tend to always have clean streets. But why can't the rest of the city go old school and hire an army of people to walk around and pick up trash with pokey sticks? It would solve a number of problems, including beautifying our streets and providing low-skill jobs for people who can't really do anything else.

I used to live in an ex-Soviet country. Say what you will about authoritarian regimes, it's really nice to see workers up at dawn hand-sweeping the city streets. And not to have all the petty nuisance crimes that "free" countries have that directly diminish quality of life.[/quote]

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