Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Have you seen the "lesser spotted" road sweeping machine?
A similar machine to the one in this photo has been cleaning the kerb on my road, twice in the last few days. Previous to this, I hadn't seen one of these around the Ladder for months.
I don't want to come across cynical, but is there any chance that this "sighting" is linked to the up-coming election?
Does anyone know what the normal schedule is for these machines, on Ladder roads?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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You've come across as cynical I'm afraid. All those poor people who litter to keep relatives in a job are going to need a new excuse when they automate these puppies.
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Permalink Reply by ant on
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These have been doing Frobisher Rd for quite a while, don't remember how long but they come by maybe once or twice a week around 6ish in the morning so wake me up sometimes. Relatively recently, maybe in the last 3 - 6 months, they've started driving along on the footpath too to give that a clean. Thats so effective that last Sunday when they did that it sucked up the cover to the mains water stopcock outside our house on the footpath. A little old lady helpfully knocked on our door before 8am on Sunday to tell us there was a hole in the footpath outside our house that was dangerous and we should get it sorted. very impressed with Thames water, gave them a call and they were around in less than an hour to draw a blue circle around the hole, then just another hour or so a team came and put in a new one.
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Permalink Reply by Nick G-T on
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I see them every week and they've been around since at least the end of last summer. When I put it to the council that they are a waste of resources, considering our roads are full of parked cars and when they do sweep the pavement, they tear up the tarmac and cannot squeeze past the street trees to pick up the litter, they responded with "...the mechanical sweepers described are specifically designed to allow deployment on pavements to support and supplement the work that is carried out by the manual operatives." This was during a period when the street sweepers weren't turning up (Wednesday's and Saturday's on Falkland). So to me, they are almost useless.
This morning I watched as one passed by me cleaning the kerb along the school; it simply lifted the dirt from the kerb and deposited it in a neat trail behind it on the road.
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