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Thanks for the commuter trash |
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Written by Richard Robey, Tracy
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
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The park and ride lot is a suburban wasteland sometimes.
EDITOR,
Commuters using the Park and Ride lot on Naglee Avenue should fully expect to have their cars vandalized or otherwise damaged at some point. I’ve had a tailgate stolen, catalytic converter sawed off, windows broken more than once and car stereo taken — and I’ve been left with the aftereffects of failed gas-siphoning attempts.
I am also not smart enough to know where to buy pizza or find a health club. However, the helpful individuals who continue to stuff advertisements between my wipers and windshield every day have solved that problem.
I love returning on the bus each day, wondering if my car will be there and if any parts have been removed — or which company I will never do business with again because of the litter on my car.
Riding a bus every day to work is no picnic. I only do it because it’s cheaper and easier than driving. It will be nice one day to be able to think of my car as transportation and not as a crime scene.
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On the auto art left on our windshields I have to agree.
This is what I have started to do and hope all of you do the same.
Many of these things have an address on them and also have a postage meter type of stamp imprinted on the thing as they were originally to be bulk mailed.
So, circle the address and drop it into the nearest post box. That way it gets sent to their address and they can throw the trash away instead of having it litter our ground.
Attention City Counsel. Here is something you can do for the city that is easy and will have a quick and dramatic improvement on the way our city looks, with trash blowing all around.
Simply pass an ordinance requireing all hand bills that are passed out to be handed out by people that have a license to do so.
Make it a finable offense for them to place these things under windshilelds in city owned or school owned parking lots. Allow commercial businesses to also require these people have permission to do the same thing in their parking lots.
Be proactive and don't ignore the situation or the trash will still be blowing all over town. A legitimate business won't have a problem with a nominal fee so they can have this stuff suck under people's windshields and if they do TOUGH. We don't want that type of business person doing business in Tracy anyway because it just makes all of us look bad in the eyes of everyone else who doesn't live here.
Dave Hardesty