On my street, the leaf piles had the effect of slowing traffic to 15 mph… which, ironically, is what the City wants to achieve by installing traffic calming devices.
I suppose we wait and see how vigorously the neighbors use the lime green bins and the brown bags. Lowes and Home Depot already had difficulty keeping them in stock during leaf season. I began buying them 50 at a time on Amazon. Maybe I should also buy stock in the companies that make those bags.
On the one hand, bagging or lifting leaves into the bin is a pain.
On the other, I’ve always been too lazy and plan too poorly to time my leaf cleanup for the city pickups, anyway. I miss the first one, think, “I’ll get the later one,” then forget about it until it’s already past.
Then end up mulching and binning regardless.
Ultimately, I guess it’s fine.
My neighborhood has a landscaping crew that deals with all of that. But we did get a green bin a few years ago which is nice when we want to cut back some stuff ourselves or at the end of raised bed garden season. I was very happy for that.
The multiple snow events this year, along with rain and freezing temps prevented collection. I noticed the leaf piles ended up blocking bike lanes. I’m glad the city will end curbside collection as leaf piles can end up making bike lanes difficult/impossible to use for nearly half of the year.
Plan doesn’t take effect until the fall of 2026. One more year of leaf piles in streets.
City will need to start issuing warnings / fines for folks that pile them up in the street. Or you are exactly right.
Same for folks parking in the bike lanes.
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On this topic but different, I saw that someone put in a crosswalk across Boylan recently. It looks amateurish enough that I’m not sure if it was the city or just someone tired of trying to cross here lol.
It definitely wasn’t the city. The city would need two years of studies to see the impact of additional pedestrians crossing there. By then the price of paint would have increased and the project would have been scrapped.
Love the overall sentiment here. If Raleigh can’t build things fast enough why not take matters into your own hands (in a constructive way)? Hopefully if more of these start to pop-up around the city, the staff will start to take notice and re-think the timeline it takes to implement quick build projects that can help give pedestrians piece of mind.
This was some tactical urbanism.
