November 8th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
A Ward 3 resident reports his streets are being cleaned. The pictures are from Wednesday November 6th, 2024 at about 1:00 pm
Why is this interesting?
Leaf pickup starts on Monday November 11th.
At least the street will be clean so residents can rake their leaves onto the road over the weekend.

Five days from when this picture was taken the city will be around to take up leaves raked to the sidewalk.

Must be a slow news day if you have to start picking on the street sweeper. I’m in the big leaf zone and I have no problems with the sweeper, shout out to John Sweeping I think they do an excellent job! We need leaf pickup if for no other reason than they are a huge safety hazard to motorcycles, bicycles and even pedestrians. So the street sweeper occasionally gets a load of leaves, I havn’t seen this happen in my 20 years here personally but even if it does, big friggin deal.
Leaf service in South Central Burlington is one of the services I appreciate with the magnitude of Leaves I have on my property. If the City of Burlington wants street cleaning done, surely, they should have the where with all to schedule this after the Leaf pickup. But, obviously they seem to be oblivious to what is happening in their City Wards. Such a waste of Burlington Property Taxpayers dollars. For all of the money we pay to these City departments, they, and not the taxpayer, should be held accountable for their incompetence and lack of planning and not the taxpayer who pays them!! Absolutely unacceptable!!
How ridiculous is this!! Why can’t the City of Burlington co-ordinate their departments?? Such a waste of Property Tax dollars. The street cleaner should come after the Leaf Pickups!!
Similar to sidewalk plows clearing sidewalks when there is no snow in sight!!! I have seen them doing this on my street.
I have also seen City plows spreading salt on the road without any snow in sight!! And roads were dry!!
Seriously why is this news?
COB has budgeted and has a program to remove leaves that could be bagged by homeowners and taken by them to the dump. Meanwhile anyone who read the delegation on how COB did not have a rigorous program in place to mitigate the effects of the flood will notice the gross disparity between the two when it comes to what council deems to be important.