Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

Allemaengel t1_jcg7aeq wrote

I was a part of an Adopt-a-Highway in Bucks County and I now work for a Township public works department in the same area. Cleaning up roadside trash and outright full-scale dumping represents a significant part of my job.

The trash is relentless, the drivers reckless and, in addition to the slobs, a lot more comes off top-loading trash trucks and blows from curbside residential trash and recycling cans than people would guess.

In any case, working in Bucks County, growing up in the Lehigh Valley, and living in the Poconos, I can see we are particularly trashy as a state. I've been to a number of other states with a fraction of the roadside trash that we have.

I can honestly tell you PennDOT doesn't have the staffing or budget to do much more than they already do.

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