If you lived in San Francisco, as I do, you might think the trash collectors were really pissed off and wanted everybody to know it. Certain streets in the city are organized to move traffic along more quickly by having timed lights on one way thoroughfares. Bush Street, for instance, is three lanes one way that will get you from the Laurel Heights area to downtown in about eight minutes if everything works fine. Broadway, similarly, will get you from Pacific Heights to Chinatown in about five minutes. But the trash trucks appear to do everything they can to get in the way and muck up the city's plan for smoothly running traffic.
This morning, as is often true, the trash trucks doubled up on Bush Street at 8:05am, height of the rush hour, so that they blocked the two outer lanes and forced all three lanes to funnel into one. And on Broadway, a trash truck parked in one of the two lanes headed downtown while the trash collector stood behind it and had a roaring good telephone conversation with someone, no trash in sight to be picked up.
This is what makes living in cities so much fun!
Stewart,
I guess that the City's leaders would be very wimpy about confronting the trash truck union to stop this behavior of the drivers. Of course, if the drivers were straight Caucasian males the City would be zealous in prosecuting the issue.
Posted by: David Tommela | February 06, 2007 at 08:51 AM
Stewart,
I guess that the City's leaders would be very wimpy about confronting the trash truck union to stop this behavior of the drivers. Of course, if the drivers were straight Caucasian males the City would be zealous in prosecuting the issue.
Dave
Posted by: David Tommela | February 06, 2007 at 08:52 AM