Angered Dallasites packed into Dallas City Hall on Wednesday, ready to give the horseshoe a piece of their mind about upcoming changes to alley trash services. About 50 protesters, led by Libby Collet, who started a petition at the center of the uproar, stood in solidarity as their fellow trash warriors told the City Council about the burdens changing from alley to curbside trash pickup would create.
“Without public input, without council oversight and with limited analytic data justifying these changes, the city is proposing the elimination of alley service, citing safety equipment, utilization and financial concern without providing any transparency around their conclusions,” said James Collet. “…This plan fails to address the city’s existing responsibilities to residents.”
Damage to private property and cars on Dallas’ narrower streets, usually without sidewalks, costs associated with frontyard redesign burdening homeowners, limited trash capacities, neighborhood aesthetics and stretching the demands on city-provided home helpers who assist the elderly take their trash to the curb were all cited as hazards posed to residents…