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Shawna
Citizen
Username: Lucies_mom
Post Number: 84
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 6:26 pm: |     |
Ok, I just moved here. Is anyone else totally annoyed with the recycling service? Why does everyone have these open containers outside with plastic bags, newspapers and boxes that, on a windy day like today, blow around the neighborhood?
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Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1048
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 6:57 pm: | |
My personal favorite is the aluminum beer cans that always wind up in front of my house... sometimes on the lawn.
It really makes me miss Brooklyn (just kidding, all you hard-core goombas!).
Anyway, Shawna, I agree. |
Smarty Jones
Citizen
Username: Birdstone
Post Number: 240
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 7:24 pm: | |
Shawna- You will particularly LOVE the fall!!! At some point in October, your neighbors are all going to rake their leaves in the streets....you will wonder why. They will sit there, blowing around, back-up to everyones yard (including yours) for days, if not weeks......than the Township Gathering will come to pass....you will know because very very very loud trucks with ultra bright yellow flashing lights that pierce into your Bedroom Windows will come by, merrily beeping...AT FOUR O'FREIKING'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
and then the whole process repeats itself at some unnamed date in November. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12108
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:47 am: | |
I believe a state law mandates that the leaf collection process will change. No more piles of leaves in the streets.
But yes, Shawna, it's annoying that our recycling stuff can blow around, but we live with it. On the other hand, the backyard garbage pickup is very nice.
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Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 6955
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 12:49 pm: | |
The best way to guard aginst blowing refuse on recycling days is to tie up the newspapers and other paper goods and place everything in deep containers (not overstuffed) so the materials inside will have a more difficult time blowing out of the containers while waiting for pick-up.
I have a much bigger problem with the emptied recycling containers which I find littering the sidewalk or lying in the gutter on recycling afternoons. I have often wondered why the recycling staff can't simply replace the containers how and where they found them. |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 914
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:40 pm: | |
That annoyed me so much that all I put out now is the tied-up newspapers. We make a trip a month to the dump to get rid of the plastic (which we'd have to do anyway) and the bottles and bags of junk mail.
Our recycling cans were usually blocking the driveway when I came home or else two or three houses away from ours. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12141
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 4:16 pm: | |
My part in this scheme is to move the empty containers off the sidewalks and onto the lawns. I do this as I walk the dog.
"This is the only thing my signature says." |
Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 573
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 5:40 pm: | |
A larger bounty of annoyance awaits you: NJ drivers. The worst.
1) they glare at people trying to use crosswalks
2) they don't understand why turn signals should be used.
3) they park in the middle of the street.
4) they often forget to turn their lights on.
5) they make huge, loopy left turns from the right lane.
Reject NJ drivers whenever possible. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12278
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 5:47 pm: | |
Let's not forget the folks whose houses have no numbers on them. And those which do often have poorly placed or very small numbers.
"mem's signature is trendier than mine." |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 1298
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 5:49 pm: | |
What a cutie Tom, love the hair. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4307
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 7:05 pm: | |
Oh God finding an unfamiliar house around here at night as a, well, nightmare. First you have to find the street, but the street signs, when not obscured behind a tree, aren't reflective so you can't read them.
I usually end up, once I'm on the street, getting out of the car and walking up to the front steps to try and find some vague hint of what house number I'm at. Then count by twos to take a guess at where I want to be. |
evm
Citizen
Username: Evm
Post Number: 318
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 7:09 pm: | |
Maybe if you all move back to Brooklyn you wont have these horrible problems. |
Carrie Avery
Citizen
Username: Carrie33
Post Number: 1300
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 9:00 pm: | |
Yeah, Evm, that is a joke right?? |
Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 574
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 9:46 pm: | |
I never set out for an unfamiliar address at night without a powerful, triple D cell, infantry-grade flashlight. Your average Maplewood street sign cannot be deciphered unless you stop directly beneath it, thoroughly illuminate it, then proceed to the next one, street by street, pitiful sign by sign, until you find what you're looking for.
Most NJ residents would wonder why you need to read a street sign in the first place. Culturally, it's simply not their orientation. It might be a form of xenophobia, and may also explain the numerous houses without address numbers. "We can't really discourage outsiders from visiting, so let's at least make sure they get lost and never come back."
You'll also notice that most major NJ thoroughfares have 3 or 4 different names, which change every few miles without warning or explanation.
Street signs in most Third World countries are superior to what we have in New Jersey. This is a fact.
Many of our street "planners" could benefit from some out of state remedial training on the basics of designing and locating street signs.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12279
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:33 am: | |
Actually, the street signs in Maplewood are reflective. They are reflective in the worst possible way. They reflect all light back into the eyes, from the background and the letters, so it's just a single illegible blur. I think the designers of these signs didn't test them whatsoever. I get really angry at them.
"mem's signature is trendier than mine." |
Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 10505
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:49 am: | |
At night if I have to go somewhere here in town I haven't been before I print out a Google map and count the streets I have to pass before getting to the one I want. And don't get me going on the fact most houses around here have illegible numbers, or no numbers at all.
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Shawna
Citizen
Username: Lucies_mom
Post Number: 85
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 10:02 pm: | |
The house number/ sign thing isn't just Maplewood. It seems to me this whole area is like that.
As for the drivers, I already am annoyed at the ones who can't wait for me and my dog to cross the street in the crosswalk. These are the guys making left turns, whipping through the intersection right in front of me and my dog scaring her enough that she jumps back.
There is a certain section of town where these a-holes are all comming from. Let's just say it's on a border of Maplewood... They probably aren't Maplewoodians. |
evm
Citizen
Username: Evm
Post Number: 322
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 10:10 pm: | |
Hmm where do you think they are from Shawna? |
Shawna
Citizen
Username: Lucies_mom
Post Number: 86
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 - 11:24 am: | |
You can guess. |
Jersey Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 101
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 9:04 am: | |
Here in New Jersey we understand our position through a familiarity with landmarks, not from dependence on the streets, as in NYC. This gets more and more true as you get more outside of Metropolises. Haven't you noticed directions are more landmark based?
New York Directions: It's on the corner of X and Y.
New Jersey Directions: Get off at Exit X. Follow the exit till you get to the Gas Station then take a right. Stay on that road till you get to the third nailplace. That should be South Orange Ave. but the sign is gone. Take South Orange Ave. through the Reservation (If you see garbage bags with body parts in them you've gone too far.) We're the sixth house on the left with the "Rutger's Painting" and "Be About Peace" signs.
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Shawna
Citizen
Username: Lucies_mom
Post Number: 92
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 4:45 pm: | |
Any one else have any history on the trash/ recycling subject before I go to town council with a suggestion? |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2307
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 5:02 pm: | |
Jersey Boy, and then there are the "if you weren't born here, you can't get there" directions, such as "turn where the old Dairy Barn used to be" and "if you get to the place where the old Smith place was, you've gone too far." |
Jersey Boy
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 106
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 5, 2006 - 1:15 pm: | |
Rastro, I'm definitely guilty of that, but only with other "Jersey People." |
Arsenal
Citizen
Username: Arsenal
Post Number: 58
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 5, 2006 - 3:39 pm: | |
Actually, I think Maplewood can still ask to have leaves put in front of houses. The State mandate allows this as long as they are picked up within a very short window. At least that is what I have heard. |
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