I don’t think hobo is the term you are looking for. Maybe some are hobos/tramps but most are bums. Common mistake but there is a difference.
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How about gypsies, tramps and thieves? 
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Way too close to M&T Bank. Shut it down!!!
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I recall saying, and I will restate, these look like they will catch a lot of trash and become a bigger nuisance than even the dumpsters. The buried dealios, like they tried next to M&T are the most effective way I’ve seen to keep trash clean and tidy.
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Oh so the City will reduce picking up leaves from “once whenever they get around to it” to “lol what leaves??”
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Thank god, it was so annoying. Bike lanes were blocked for like half the year.
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Oh, you think ending this program will now stop people from blowing all their f**king leaves into the streets for everyone else to deal with? Have you met people???
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There’s been bitching about loose leaf collection from its start and there’s really no easy fix (outside the simple but can’t do it due to budget answer of increasing service frequency in $eason…). This probably isn’t going to reduce the amount of leaves in the roads / clogging storm drains if you leave it ‘up to the citizens’ to clean the right of way…
We compost or leave 'em in the yard, so no big deal to me - it was always comical that the service seemed to start in my zone in Nov before any leaves fell and then they’d ‘mop up’ in Feb… We’ll see how the fall breaks.
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They will after they get a $50 fine
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The city needs to actually enforce this. I trudged through six months of leaves in the bike lanes on St. Mary’s this year.
I actually confronted a guy about it who was actively blowing his leaves into the bike lane and he seemed a little ashamed, but nothing changed.
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There is still going to be leaf pickup. It will need to be in bins.
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It’ll be a combination - most can’t get it in a single bin (even with weekly pickup in ‘high season’) so overflow bagged leaves and/or loose leaves blown into the street…
“Nearly 50 transportation staff no longer will flex to leaf collection, allowing them to focus on other jobs such as sidewalk repair, street pavement patching, mulching, and landscaping”.
The latter is more crucial than the former.
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Yeah I’ve been doing this for the 13 years I’ve owned my home. Growing up people just put them in town-provided paper bags and put them out for the town to collect every week, and it was all composted. The strategy here where people put them in the road so they can be picked up in February has boggled my mind for my 16 years here.
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Which brings me to my second point, as I have advocated for here frequently. No more trees. Make Raleigh flat and boring with parking lots and no tall buildings or trees.
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Glad they are changing it up. The current system of “wait until Feb” is not working. They are switching yard pick up to weekly, plus you can use bags.
Doesn’t impact me. We have a ton of trees, and I use them all as free mulch for the beds. Decomm no poses i to great soil.
I wouldn’t characterize this is an inevitable reduction in service because of suburbia. Almost no one was happy with the leaf vacuum program, although there were multiple reasons behind the dissatisfaction. The City has actually increased service by changing yard waste pickup from every two weeks to every week, year round.
Just as Raleigh was one of the last medium-sized cities to require garbage bins at the curb instead of city employees walking up your driveways to collect your garbage bags, Raleigh is also one of the last medium-sized cities to run a leaf vacuum program. Yes, leaves do come from trees and trees do grow on lots where there is room for them… meaning mainly the single-family and duplex properties around the City. But thankfully for the environment, the City came up with a solution that doesn’t encourage residential property owners to cut their trees down. It is the City of Oaks, after all.
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Yeah and the yard waste collection bins are relatively new, like 2 years old. Ending leaf vacuuming was always part of the plan. It all started with the lime green bins, a big investment by the city, and moving to weekly collection makes sense now. This is a good example of the city thinking strategically and problem solving.
I just have serious doubts people are actually going to collect their leaves and put them in the yard waste bins and bring them out every week…
…rather than just continue blowing them all into the damn street for everyone else to deal with, exactly as they have been doing regardless of how often (basically never) the city actually came to vacuum them up.
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