Politics & Government

Scheduling Changes For Trash Pick-Up In Dallas Causing Issues For Oak Cliff Neighborhood

At the request of multiple Dallas City Council members, city staff addressed all of this in a special meeting Thursday.

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January 13, 2023

In the 30 years Susan Blackburn has lived in Oak Cliff, she's never had issues with trash pickup.

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"This is new.. which is why I guess we were so surprised by it," she said. For more than two weeks, garbage has been piling up in her neighborhood.

"It needs to be fixed before it becomes a health problem," she said. "We're fortunate it is cold. If it were warm and we had two-week-old trash out there, we could have rats. We could have all sorts of problems."

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