What’s really wrong with Dallas sanitation? | Opinion
or if you’re lucky just leave it in the alley, and a truck comes by once a week and makes it disappear.
In early December, the sanitation department switched from a four-day schedule to five days. According to conversations I’ve had with frontline workers, management did so without any input from the workers who are actually running the routes. The problem is the victory of theory over experience. The plan devised by Sanitation Director Jay Council is based on new routes drawn by a software program. It was supposed to lead to greater efficiency and fewer work days for sanitation employees. So far, zero for two. I called Council for comment, and he declined.
The new system is failing. The new routes are not efficient. Some routes are so short a driver could do them in an hour. Some are split so strangely, they take trucks to multiple neighborhoods, widely separated. What’s more, the routes don’t account for the peculiarities of neighborhoods that longtime sanitation workers know. They assume an availability of equipment that just isn’t there.
The new sanitation plan never had a chance, according to employees. Too many things needed to be done first. The fleet of vehicles is inadequate for the demands of the new plan. The service and maintenance group at the city has deteriorated. Trucks, already overworked, break down constantly. Most astonishing, only a small sample of routes were tested prior to implementation — and not in fleet vehicles or by the route drivers.
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