Swept Up in a Panic: Long Beach Residents Strain to Beat Sweepers
April 20, 2011 by RyanHamel · 4 Comments
The Contra Costa Times explores the issue of street sweeping, and the resulting tickets in the Long Beach area. According to Jim Kuhl, the city’s manager of environmental services, Long Beach’s 18 street sweepers pick up between 15,000 and 16,000 tons of trash per year. And, because people often forget to move their cars on the designated street-sweeping days, tickets are plentiful – and profitable for the city. In fiscal year 2007, for example, Long Beach issued 233,480 street sweeping citations. Since street-sweeping is only conducted four days per week, that comes out to over 1,100 such tickets each day. Those fines amounted to nearly $9 million dollars in revenue for the Long Beach government. “I totally understand why they do it. However, I think there’s more of a focus on giving out tickets to profit from it rather than to enforce the law,” said one ticketed resident.
Comments
4 Responses to “Swept Up in a Panic: Long Beach Residents Strain to Beat Sweepers”Trackbacks
Check out what others are saying about this post...free dating online…
Thanks for the sensible critique. Me and my neighbor were just preparing to do some research on this. We got a grab a book from our local library but I think I learned more from this post. I’m very glad to see such great information being shared freel…
Websites You Should Visit…
[...]very few websites that happen to be detailed below, from our point of view are undoubtedly well worth checking out[...]…
… [Trackback]…
[...] Informations on that Topic: parkingandtrafficticketinfo.com/cities/los-angeles/swept-up-in-a-panic-long-beach-residents-strain-to-beat-sweepers/ [...]…
Great website…
[...]we like to honor many other internet sites on the web, even if they aren’t linked to us, by linking to them. Under are some webpages worth checking out[...]……