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It is gratifying to have visitors swarming to downtown Lancaster on Friday evenings and Saturdays to visit stores and take in the sights.
However on Saturdays they are greeted with the blight of overflowing city trash containers along the downtown sidewalks.
It does not take genius, especially when the Mayor lives on the second block of North Prince Street, to recognize that the containers need to be emptied first things Saturday morning, preferably before 8:AM. Of course this costs money and probably some over time.
But what is the use of spending two hundred million dollars to attract visitors, mostly funded or guaranteed by tax payers, if they are going to have to walk around the litter surrounding the trash receptacles and they have no place to dispose of their unwanted items?
Are Park City Mall or Red Rose Commons so neglectful? Of course not.
Note to Mayor and City Council: Downtown is a shopping center. Act like it.
Trash containers in downtown Lancaster are emptied daily, including on weekends, in the evenings so as to not interfere with traffic. Lancaster City has a pickup truck with a dump bed whose driver empties trash containers and replaces trash bags with new ones.
EDITOR: Sorry. Ain’t so Friday nights / Sunday mornings. The Watchdog knows because he hands out newsletters at Central Market briefly around 8 AM and usually again at 11 AM.