Dearborn Public Service Days Could Become Weekly
Dearborn’s Public Service Days could soon become a lot less confusing for residents if City Council next week approves a request by the mayor to make the street cleaning, tree trimming and general neighborhood maintenance a weekly occurrence.
We think the move is a good way to eliminate the confusion caused by the current system, which has many residents guessing which weeks to remove their parked vehicles from the street. Yes, the Dearborn city calendar lists that Public Service Days occur twice a month but it isn’t always accurate.
Under the proposed plan by Mayor John B. O’Reilly Jr., public service days would become weekly and begin an hour later, starting at 8 a.m. rather than the current 7 a.m., which may more naturally remove cars from the streets as many residents depart for work around this time. Public Service Days would still occur on the same day as a neighborhood’s regular scheduled trash pickup.
Public Service Days would cease between the months of December and March.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:11 am
First of all the City Calander is a joke, as they are constantly chang things, or altering same, after they print the calander naturally. The public service days change is overdue, what took the big fellow so long to notice. It will be easier on the residents to remember.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Does anyone know what happens if a friend or relative not from Dearborn happens to drop by on a public service day to visit and cannot park on the street? Most of us do not have circular driveways or other resources to accommodate addiitonal offstreet parking.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
What makes it confusing is no signage, I live off a major street and the only signs in my neighborhood are as you enter the area from the major street. If every street had a sign every say 2-4 hundred feet and used covers on alternating weeks most people would get it. Thats the way it was done 35 or 40 years ago. When it was every week they also did only one side each week and moved the covers from one side to the other depending on which side was being done.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
School Mom – according to what I was told when I asked this question – it is up to the property owner to inform their guests about public service days. Guess you just have them park on the grass if you don’t have space available.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Well, lawn parking it is then. Can’t be more illegal than my neighbors firing up their outdoor portable fireplaces inside their garage.
July 11th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
I like having unmarked “no-parking” zones on all of our city’s side streets. In fact I think we should take this even further. What do people think about having unmarked handicapped parking spaces around town? Or how about unmarked four-way stops? And of course we should have unmarked speed zones.
It would sure make the city look better without all of those nasty metal signs everywhere. People would have to…just know…when to stop and where to park and how fast to go. And if they don’t just know these things? We ticket the hell out of them!
July 12th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Steve,
I don’t quite understand what you are talking about. I thought the posts were quite pointed about the current system not working. No one said anything about removing the signage, just how to make it work better so people do what they’re supposed to do, so the City can do its job. I actually like the public service days and knowing that my street is going to be cleaned twice a month, and I am very lucky that I have adequate off-street parking; but I can understand how this might be a huge problem for certain areas of the City. Instead of telling people, oh well, you are SOL, I would hope that the City might help by coming up with alternatives or suggestions that really will work.
July 12th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Do full-sized NBA-style basketball nets on wheels, compolete with backboards
fall under the “NO PARKING” umbrella?
I guess not as I watch the garbage trucks maneuver around them every week.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:16 am
the signage at the Ford Community and Rec center is rarely accurate too, for when the pools are open or not, for easter break.
July 13th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Dearbornette, re-read my post through a voice of sarcasm.
(Didn’t realize that a post advocating for the removal of handicapped parking signs, speed limit signs and stop signs had to be labeled with the *sarcasm* tag.)
July 13th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
“Steve says:
July 13th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Dearbornette, re-read my post through a voice of sarcasm.
(Didn’t realize that a post advocating for the removal of handicapped parking signs, speed limit signs and stop signs had to be labeled with the *sarcasm* tag.)”
Some people would suffocate if they didn’t have a sign to remind them to breathe. How do you figure out what the speed limit is in a residential area where there’s no sign posted Steve? Think you could figure out not to have your car on the street the next day when you see garbage cans out there the night before? Maybe let your visitors know too? Or do you REALLY need a sign every 5 houses to be able to muddle your way through life on Public Service Days? My fiancee lives in a city where there is NO parking at all on public streets after dark. And there aren’t signs every 20 feet either. After a relatively short time, people sort of figured it out with hardly any government intervention at all.
Breathe, Steve, breeeeaaatttthhhheeee…and don’t look up when it’s raining….you might drown.
Sarcastic enough for you, or do you need a sign?
July 13th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
great post steve!
!ts not shocking you have to over explain yourself to others who post here.
July 13th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
There’s a fine line between sarcasm and being an asshole. Ya might want to double check which side of the line you’re on.
Residential speeds are 25 unless otherwise marked. I still don’t know how legal it can be to ticket someone for parking in an unmarked no-parking zone.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
“I still don’t know how legal it can be to ticket someone for parking in an unmarked no-parking zone.”
When was the last time you saw a “no parking by the fire hydrant” sign, Steve? Just pretend all the garbage cans out there on garbage day are fire hydrants. And Steve, remember: BREAAAATTTHHHE!
July 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Aside from you just being an unpleasant person, is there a specific reason you’ve decided to single me out here with your “humor?”
And to answer your question, fire hydrants are universally considered to be “no parking zones.” Garbage cans aren’t, and therefore can’t be used as an unspoken “no parking” sign. Try again.
Listen, I’ve lived in and been to many cities that have service days, but I have never seen a city try to institute temporary no-parking zones without proper signage.
SMEB, are you by chance the city employee that’s in charge of implementing City Service Days? Is that why you’re so defensive of its current incarnation?
July 14th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Nope, just a taxpayer who likes to get his streets cleaned. It’s not that hard to deal with.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:05 am
I went to city hall to pay my water bill and notice that some streeets in east dearborn in fact have several signs per block, six to be exact three on each side. Now what does that mean? Does the city believe that west enders can figure it out easier than our east end neighbors? Also, area border streeets like Madison have multiple signs but that reflects my earier point the as you enter the area you will see signs.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
What language should it be in? What an issue it has become, but than again who would have ever thought that the city would have to be sooooo involved in the simplest home owner responsability of cutting the grass? Welcome to the lower class life style of the new Dearborn middle class! Gotta go, the Unicorn is double parked and the rainbows are diverse!!!