In my country, seasonal cleaning is announced beforehand and the streets become no-parking zone for a specified period of time (usually just a few hours). This closure moves by blocks and the times are set two or three weeks in advance, so it doesn´t present much problems for most people. Vehicles that are “at the wrong place on the wrong time” can be even towed away. This is primarily to allow mechanized cleaning (those broom and hoover trucks). On the other hand, I’ve seen the cleaning crews raking under cars – they tolerate cars with “handicapped driver” signs, for example… but it is, of course, a great difference if they have to go under one car occasionally or a row of them.
In my City, it depends. In my neighborhood it would be very problematic to set a whole block as “no parking” area. Simply by far to many cars for too little parking space. Every night, nearly one half of the cars par illegal because lack of space. The streets and houses where build when cars where not invented.
I was really ill from cancer and using a leaf blower was the only way to get the leaves. Even when I’m not sick, it’s the only thing that cleans under and around the fixtures in the yard. It’s also the only thing that moves spruce needles of which I have excessive quantities from the giant wall of mature spruce lining the front of my property. Judging people without knowing why they’d rather wield a noisy, heavy, vibratey thing rather than dance with a light pole and springy end, well that’s just wrong.
City cleaning has got them battery driven now…
And it makes sense somehow: It is hard to get all the leafs from under the parking cars with a broom.
In my country, seasonal cleaning is announced beforehand and the streets become no-parking zone for a specified period of time (usually just a few hours). This closure moves by blocks and the times are set two or three weeks in advance, so it doesn´t present much problems for most people. Vehicles that are “at the wrong place on the wrong time” can be even towed away. This is primarily to allow mechanized cleaning (those broom and hoover trucks). On the other hand, I’ve seen the cleaning crews raking under cars – they tolerate cars with “handicapped driver” signs, for example… but it is, of course, a great difference if they have to go under one car occasionally or a row of them.
In my City, it depends. In my neighborhood it would be very problematic to set a whole block as “no parking” area. Simply by far to many cars for too little parking space. Every night, nearly one half of the cars par illegal because lack of space. The streets and houses where build when cars where not invented.
BAN THEM
(I hate the noise)
The cars or the leaf blowers?
Both?
[Kosh]Yes[/Kosh]
I was really ill from cancer and using a leaf blower was the only way to get the leaves. Even when I’m not sick, it’s the only thing that cleans under and around the fixtures in the yard. It’s also the only thing that moves spruce needles of which I have excessive quantities from the giant wall of mature spruce lining the front of my property. Judging people without knowing why they’d rather wield a noisy, heavy, vibratey thing rather than dance with a light pole and springy end, well that’s just wrong.