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Heres another twist on garbage collection, and what happens in NYC. Same thing applies, except it's a municipal agency doing the pick up. You have to be careful, as they will be making a pick up from a large building of the bags and heavy compactor bags, street is closed behind them as they work, you may get going down a one way, get half way in the middle of that street and have to wait through every stop, no way to get around, especially with parked cars, I think they should coordinate parking with that like they do for street cleaning. Sometimes the crew takes their time, others really hustle, it averages out, they do a great job and there is no way around this, most people realize there is not much you can do, but there is always one that's hammering on the horn. If you are working in an area for any length of time, you quickly figure out how to avoid getting trapped in the middle of a one-way because these guys are punctual, you know when they will be there, once you see the porters putting out the bags on the sidewalk, the next morning you know it's getting picked up. What a contrast compared to being from what was a farming town and a country setting. One thing I don't like is when these big box building material suppliers make a delivery beyond the crest of a hill in the road and do not place cones where you can see them with enough time to react, instead of coming up over the hill and having no time to react to the surprise. A friend ran a garbage collection business, he just sold it off, and like most around here, they hit their routes as early (and sometimes break the rules on that) as ordinance's allow, they hustle and get the job done, not easy and really dangerous for the guys hangin on the back. We used to get fuel at the same place every morning, at dark 0 clock, he's real lucky, his dad got crunched between 2 trucks when backed end to end, not sure what they were doing, transferring from one to another, happened last fall and he's still on the mend.
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