Clean Streets and a City That Answers
Trash picked up on schedule, illegal dumping prosecuted, potholes filled, and a Council office that answers the phone.
- Trash and recycling collected on the day it is scheduled, every week.
- Street cleaning citywide, with the parking worked out honestly before it starts.
- Cameras and real penalties for the contractors dumping in this district.
- A Council office that publishes how many cases it opened and closed.
People judge their city government on whether the trash got picked up. That is not unfair. It is the most visible promise the city makes every single week.
Collection that is actually reliable
Missed pickups compound: one skipped week becomes a pile, a pile becomes a dumping site, a dumping site becomes rats. The fix is staffing, equipment and accountability, and it needs to be budgeted like the core service it is.
Street cleaning, honestly
Philadelphia's mechanical street cleaning keeps getting piloted and paused because the parking question is hard. It is hard. It is also solvable, block by block, with real notice — and a district full of narrow rowhouse streets deserves that work rather than another pilot.
Go after the dumpers
Most illegal dumping in this district is not a neighbor with an old couch. It is a contractor with a truck who is doing it repeatedly because nothing happens. Cameras at the known sites, plates run, penalties that are worse than the tipping fee.
An office that answers
This Council office will publish, every quarter, how many constituent cases it opened, how many it closed and how long it took. If that number is bad, you should be able to see that it is bad.
Help make this happen
Plans need a Council seat behind them. Chip in or take a shift.