[Summit] No trash pickup any day this week

[Robert Mathiesen]

I just saw this announcement (posted by councilman John Goncalves):

I am writing to share an important update. *The City of Providence is
cancelling trash and recycling collection for this week. Service will
resume on its regular schedule beginning Monday 3/2.*

Providence is in the middle of the largest blizzard recovery effort in the
city’s history. While crews have been working around the clock for the past
48 hours, most residential streets have not yet been fully cleared and many
secondary roads remain in active snow removal.

In many neighborhoods, sanitation trucks simply cannot safely access
streets. Snow depth, compaction, narrowed roadways and equipment
constraints make collection operationally unworkable at this time. There is
no consistent access for trucks, no safe space to stage carts and no way to
deploy sanitation crews without interfering with the heavy equipment that
is actively opening streets.

Continuing to delay day by day would create weeks of rolling schedule
disruptions. Given the scale of this recovery, cancelling this week and
restarting cleanly on Monday is the most responsible and efficient course
of action.

*This approach allows us to:*

• Keep all crews and equipment focused on opening residential streets

• Avoid placing carts into roadways that are not yet safely passable

• Prevent conflicts between sanitation operations and snow removal

• Restart collection uniformly across every neighborhood

We are actively scaling up heavy equipment including additional backhoes,
front loaders, and hauling trucks to widen and open residential streets as
quickly as possible. That work remains the top operational priority.

For context, several other communities across the state have also cancelled
trash collection this week due to similar recovery conditions.

Overflow trash bags will be available beginning Thursday at City Hall, Room
101, and at the Chapman Street DPW facility. Additional public updates will
follow.

Please share this information with neighbors. The call center remains
staffed from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to assist with concerns. City buildings will
also be closed tomorrow due to ongoing conditions.

Thank you for your continued patience as recovery efforts move forward.
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