Garbage Strike Reality Check

Mayor David Miller says on CNN that Toronto is still a great place to visit at this time, and the city is handling the trash problem fine.

Here is a reality check for those that believe him:

• There is a vacant store front vestibule in my neighborhood that is jammed and piled high with stinking and rotting garbage. Not only are there no workers to pick it up, there is no one to issue fines.
  
• Public waste containers wrapped in plastic to prevent litter from being tossed in during the strike, are wedged open and overflowing with trash. This is downtown by the way.
• There are trash bags with rotting diapers strewn on the sidewalk
• There is no pick up of trash at local parks and beaches.  
• I avoid parks, for example Taylor Creek, because it home to one of 19 trash depots. Stinks  like crap and it's being sprayed by god knows what.
• "The litter my friend, is blowing in the wind" and down the sidewalks and alley ways.

So sure, wonderful place visit, if you are comparing it to Detroit.