I've posted this elsewhere too so please forgive me for repeating this if anyone has already seen it... I suppose it depends on whether you live in a city , suburb or rural area.. we live in a semi rural area... just 5 small roads where I live, and the road sweeper comes about once a month...in fact they've just been doing it this morning hence the question to you all... In Southern Spain , the road sweepers are out every day as are the domestic Bin carts, because of course any rubbish left in the heat is going to be a health hazard ... we don't have that kind of hot weather so our bins get emptied on a 2 week rota basis. 2 Green recycling wheelie bins one week, and normal domestic waste the following week In London the road sweepers are out most days ... but there's not much kerbside litter here in the rural shires, and also if there's a piece of litter been dropped by a passer by , most householders here will pick it up and dispose of it anyway... So how often do you get your roads swept outside your home.... This is a typical road sweeper here
Once a year and that is certainly not enough. The only reason we get it done is because our town hosts an annual car show and cruise and they want everything to look pretty for all the out of towners. Once they are gone .. no more pretty !
Oh WoW!!! that's a long time between cleans... Our roads don't get dirty here very much at all, but we still get them cleaned every 4 weeks...
We live outside the city limits; I don't recall there ever having been a street sweeper in our neighborhood. We have concrete streets with storm sewers and gutters, and I have never noticed any real problem with dirty streets. I guess the rain waters keep them clean enough. Our garbage/trash pickup is twice weekly; Monday and Thursday.
At one time cities did seem to street wash regularly. It maybe it was downdized to save money- not really sure.
We have the opposite here I think the city streets get cleaned even more regularly than us out here, (during the night) ..whereas ours here are done during the morning soon after everyone's gone to work, and there's no cars parked out on the roads
We live on dirt roads, so they never get cleaned and seldom get graded. The main roads get swept once a year. Maybe in the cities the streets and roads are swept more often, but out here in the boonies, almost never. We could get garbage service here but it expensive, so we haul our own trash and garbage to the landfill and burn our combustibles.
I've never seen one of those sweeper trucks except in movies. I don't remember if the streets were dirty, but downtown Philadelphia was a dirty place. The store owners should wash the windows and sidewalks once in a while.
@Holly Saunders: .. who cleans your roadside verges? The streets are clean, edges also. When I walked through one of the side streets here last fall after a lot of rain, there were wet leaves in the streets. I'm sure the homeowners cleaned up. I pick up very small limbs in the street nearly every day, across the street at the mail box. Lots of huge old trees here, not in my yard. I get to enjoy them without any of the work. It's never necessary here or where I lived in GA, except for sometime when the leaves get in the street.
The council ( the local authority highways dept ) cleans our roads and verges ... it's paid for out of our taxes...
In the 21 years that I've lived on Eyota Road, I've never seen a street sweeper on it, or anywhere else in our Town. If there ever was anything to sweep up, our High Desert Winds would take care of it. There are no sidewalks in our Town, therefore the only people we see on the roads are the occasional dog walkers, so there are no scraps or debris to be seen anywhere. Apple Valley is a semi-rural township, and has no Streets...only Roads. Hal