Dearborn Street Leaf Pickup Ends Dec. 2
We’ve received numerous comments here from residents wondering why leaves they’ve raked into the street aren’t picked up each week. Well, the simple answer is that leaves in street are picked up every other week. And that ends Dec. 2.
We’re still not sure why this service continues to be offered given the city’s current budget crisis, but that’s a discussion for another day.
Dearborn's curbside yard waste collection ends Dec. 16.
To guarantee pickup, Dearborn officials are reminding residents that they can put them in 32 gallon containers marked “Yard Waste” or in paper landscape bags and set them on the curb. This curbside service ends Dec. 16.
In addition, collection of loose leaves raked into the streets in Dearborn neighborhoods is scheduled to continue until Friday, Dec. 2, depending on the weather. For those of you who still have leaves in the street after Dec. 2, be courteous to your neighbor and bag them so they don’t end up in your neighbor’s yard the first time the snow plows come through.
Loose leaves raked into the street will be picked up on Public Service Days/trash days during non-recycling weeks.
Note that crews may not be able to pick up leaves from an entire Public Service Day district in one day and will return during the next non-recycling week to start where they left off.
For a weekly leaf collection schedule, call the Leaf Hotline at 943-2444.
November 18th, 2011 at 7:34 am
No Deep the ‘simple answer’ is not that they are picked up everyother week. In my area yesterday (Thurs. 11-18) was our FIRST pickup. Leaves that are in the street will be picked up on public service days – now that makes sense because all the cars will be off the street. Not true either my PSD is today (Fri. 11-19) so can anyone tell me why they picked up yesterday when there were cars parked in the street and it just left one big mess of leaves? Now I am sure that the city will say that the leaves all fell at the same time but wait, they used that excuse last year. I have neighbors that are so ticked off because they had planned on raking last night for ‘today’s pickup’.
November 18th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Donna, they don’t do the public services on public service day so I don’t understand why we even have them except to waste money. They were banging on my door not on my public service day because they had to do some work and wanted me to move my car. I asked them why they didn’t do it on public service day when my car was already off the street and they of course didn’t have an answer for that. I thought psd was the day when they would come around and service your area but it just seems like a way to write parking tickets and hassle homeowners because they for sure didn’t send the street sweepers or leaf guys around on psd either. Then there are the yo yo’s who rake the leaves in the street the day after they have been picked up so they have to sit there for who knows how long. They tell you not to rake them into the street till the day before, then they come the day before to pick them up. And we are paying extra taxes for all these so called “services” while the libraries and pools are all closing. It just doesn’t make sense.
November 19th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I live on South Martha in West Dearborn. Our PSD is Wed., the day our garbage is picked up, so we all dutifully do not park our cars on the streets. Boy, what a novel idea it would be to pick up leaves on that day…no, of course not.
I am pulling up my street today (Saturday), and low and behold my street is blocked by the leaf pick up crew. Cars parked up and down the street (of course, since it is not PSD). The crew struggles to scrape any leaves up, (mostly, tearing up more asphalt on the already bad street). Several of us comment as to why today? The answer back from the crew is “tell your Mayor”.
What kind of idiots do we have in office? Here, we just voted in a millage, costing homeowners more money, and the Mayor evidently thinks it is OK to pay leaf crews overtime to pick leaves up. Not to mention the waste of resources because barely any leaves could be picked up. The Mayor must think we are all Lemmings, I for one am not. I am counting down the days until we can vote this idiot out of office, along with all of his behind kissers!!!
November 21st, 2011 at 10:24 am
I saw them going down Rotunda on Saturday and all the leaves were blowing off the truck and filling up Rotunda with leaves. I laughed to myself after we juggled our parking around and told our relatives from out of town not to arrive until after 4 the day before because they couldn’t park at the home we’ve owned for 40 years because of public service day. Then they didn’t pick up the leaves then I see them driving around on a time and a half day with all the leaves from someone else’s street blowing all over the street from off the truck. Didn’t they say that they are only saving $120,000 per year by not opening Snow Library and that the 6 small pools cost $132,000 to operate? Yet we can pay 600,000 for this useless service and pay parking enforcement people that don’t bring in enough revenue to cover their salaries? I’ve been through Dearborn Heights in the summer and I don’t see big piles of leaves. They manage to go somewhere without the city spending all that money.
November 21st, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Dear Waste of Money…Still:
Apparently, we have the finest idiots our tax dollars can buy as I could not agree with you more. Just eliminate the damn “leaf pick-up, scrape-up, blow the leaves around town program.” Folks, we should just be raking the leaves up ourselves, bagging them and setting the yard waste out for pick up. It is just that simple.
November 21st, 2011 at 3:43 pm
I just spoke to the very nice lady at the City’s Information Desk, and discussed the problem of knowing when the leaf pickup would actually occur in any given neighborhood.
Same explanation: Although pickup is supposed to happen on your non-recycling day, the volume of leaves can delay things.
My suggestion was that the City post a link on its website (use that scrolling banner) that would show a map – in real time – where the crews were working on any given day, and where they would be tomorrow, etc.
That way the foremen, using a cellphone, could update the City on compliance with schedule, delays, etc.
And maybe, eventually, there even will be “an app for that.”
November 21st, 2011 at 6:01 pm
City workers picking up leaves on triple time. What a scam. I didn’t vote yes on the proposals to have money flushed down the toilet like this. As for the poor quality of leaf pick up, I can’t believe we are paying for this. My neighborhood looked better with piles of leaves in the roads than it did after pick up. The city has been doing leaf pick up for a lot of years and they still cant figure out an effective way to collect them without making it look like a war zone when they are finished. Who is in charge? Are they really so dumb to continue such an inefficient way of collecting leaves? Seriously, it’s embarrassing. If you can’t do it right don’t do it at all, and the city is not doing it right.
November 22nd, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Well, they better get cracking because I’ve driven around Dearborn and there are a heck of a lot of leaves that still need to get picked up. And they fell rather early this year.
Couldn’t they just do away with it and then let residents who want to call and request pick up for a fee like they do with brush etc? I’ll bet there wouldn’t be all these big piles of leaves in the street all over the place if there was a fee to get them removed.
I’d rather see the money go to the pools and reopening the Snow Library. I don’t think they have tried as hard as they could to keep those things operating.
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:13 am
Street was flooded tonight with all the rain. You suppose all those leaves raked into the street are plugging up the sewer?