Avoid Tickets: Keep Cars off Street on Trash Days
Public Service Days starts again the week of April 2, 2012 and last through Nov. 30, 2012.
The city of Dearborn wants to avoid having to issue tickets during Public Service Days and has again issued a notice to remind residents that all vehicles must be off the streets on trash days.
Public Service Days starts again the week of April 2, 2012 and last through Nov. 30, 2012.
During this time period, Dearborn provides critical services, such as street sweeping, tree-trimming, and sewer maintenance in your neighborhood on your trash day.
To ensure these services are provided in a safe, effective manner, residents are warned to not park on residential streets from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on your trash day, which is also your Public Service Day.
Tickets will be issued to vehicles parked on the street during a trash day/Public Service Day.
If you are parking in a neighborhood that is not your own in Dearborn, check street signs to determine if it is that neighborhood’s Public Service Day.
As we have mentioned before here, residents can no longer park vehicles across the sidewalk on Public Service Days. You will be ticketed if you park across the sidewalk. In addition, you must not park on lawns or any other unpaved areas or you will be ticketed, too.
You must also keep your trash and recycle carts and yard waste containers off the street on your Public Service Days/trash days.
Additional information is available at www.cityofdearborn.org. For parking issues related to Public Service Days, call 943-2276.
March 27th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Street sweeping. Surely you jest. My street was swept twice last year. Tree trimming. Another job done by low bid contractors. Why doesn’t the city do this? I surely pay enough in taxes not to have this contracted out. As for sewer maintenance please. How many years do I see an orange cone or a sign over a collapsing sewer? What a joke.
March 28th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I love the picture for this story. How tall is that guy that he is towering over the street signs?
March 28th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
To Otter: The reason these services you mentioned aren’t being done in a timely way by city workers is that the DPW has been gutted by over half of its workers in the twelve years I’ve worked there. Unfortunately, this isn’t nearly the same city I grew up in during the 60s and 70s.
March 29th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
Exactly Eastside. The city no longer employes enough people to do the jobs that residents expect. Which is why I find public service days to be a joke. I pay high taxes for little services. The jobs listed for public service days do not get done, at no fault of your own. I realize DPW is short on manpower, and I appreciate all that they do. But I feel for the taxes I pay I am getting jipped on services. I have only to blame the inept leadership of our city.
March 30th, 2012 at 8:44 am
I would like to say thanks to the city for actually trimming trees on our public service day!!! Oh wait I see we have a problem they have put up sign that says ‘road closed’, wonder how the garbage trucks will be able to pick up the trash???
March 31st, 2012 at 1:49 am
It’s not that difficult. Trash trucks will skip the block that is being “serviced”.
Follow these tree trimmers around for a couple days and it’s not that hard to understand.
It may be a tad annoying for Republic but it’s not detrimental to trash pick up……
March 31st, 2012 at 1:53 am
I can agree to your comments on sweeping.
If you watch the sweepers (if you actually see them in action), 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the time, the brooms aren’t even moving on their sweepers. It’s a complete and utter joke.
As far as tree trimming. I have seen some crews in action. The job they did wasn’t bad. They got done what the needed to get done.
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Exactly, it’s not like the streets are closed all day.
April 4th, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Now you can’t park across the sidewalk on “service days”? Ridiculous. Let’s make it as inconvenient as possible for residents to park on their own property for pretty much no reason at all. I never see any of these services being done in my neighborhood. It’s just an excuse for cops to write people tickets in my opinion.
April 5th, 2012 at 9:51 am
In my opinion all public service days are is another way to write us more parking tickets. The streets aren’t any cleaner, the trash manages to get picked up the rest of the year with no problems and the sewers and trees are maintained the same. It’s just the government reaching into our pockets AGAIN and spending the money on frivolous projects that the majority of citizens don’t want while closing pools and libraries keeping out business like Kohl’s and Goodwill. You can see the ultimate goal is one big pool on each end and one giant library in the middle. That is not what I moved here for. I like the neighborhood feel.