Boston’s Department of Public Works may provide additional cleanup in Boston’s neighborhoods this summer.
Jamaica Plain could see the return of “hokeys” this summer. Jullieanne Doherty, mayor’s office liaison for Jamaica Plain, said at a Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association meeting Wednesday that street sweepers – humans, (not machines), known colloquially as “hokeys” – will be deployed by the city’s department of public works throughout Boston’s neighborhoods this summer. The hokeys will not be assigned to specific neighborhoods, but instead will operate on a schedule which will rotate them from neighborhood to neighborhood including West Roxbury, Roslindale, Dorchester and others, Doherty said. The number of street sweepers, along with the possible addition of BigBelly solar trash containers along Centre Street, is dependent …
JP Business and Professional Association member Carlos Icaza said the business community should look to clean up Centre Street.
The business professionals want to lead by example when it comes to street cleanup of Jamaica Plain’s most popular street. Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association member Carlos Icaza said he has looked into cleaning up litter along Centre Street at a Wednesday meeting of JP BAPA. He added the worst litterers are the corporate-owned entities along Centre Street: Tedeschis, CVS and the banks. BAPA President Brad Brown said along with communicating JP’s needs to the city of Boston, BAPA would provide owners with a dust pan and a broom as a way of sending a message. “If you start policing your own couple of square feet, then it’s ‘monkey see, monkey do,’” Brown said. “We all start doing it, everybody will start doing it.” Does …
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Michael
9:51 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
see my note below. The businesses on Centre/ South, Washington, et alia, need to pick up a broom and take responsibility for where they do business. more ›