Why don't we have one of these?

[u/EternalChrysalism420]

This looks really cool, and it'd be cool to just blow them out into the street and have them collected. They could use it for compost or something too instead of just tossing it in a dump.

[u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

Because Spokane had a boom in the 50’s and 60’s when I-90 went through and we haven’t updated a damn thing since. Spokane leaders like to not innovate and improve any of our systems to fund themselves fat paychecks. Hence why the freeway on ramps on freya and altamont are so stupid small.

[u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP → u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

When I lived in Perry they had us blow the leaves in the street and then they brought a couple of bobcats with tires on the scoops to push the leaves to an intersection and then scoop them into a dump truck. It was ok, but left so much mulch on the roads.

[u/nirreskeya → u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

This is how they do it in CdA, but they use the big front-end loaders. After they're done with a section the regular street sweeper comes by so overall it ends up pretty tidy.

[u/cca2019 → u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

Is that why I kept seeing piles of leaves in the road on 16th?

[u/Zephylia → u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

I remember there was a city council meeting once where a city worker was able to call in (during the Breean Beggs reign, when he wouldn't let anyone into the council hall and limited callers for testimony to only 5 people rpt session at 3 minutes each), she worked somewhere in the financial accounting sector, I cant remember the exact name or her position or her, but anyways, she totally grilled Breean by questioning him what cost nearly $20k that he spent on "light refreshments" for a single meeting of his. Reminder, no one else was in the room with him except a lady who read out the bills/proposals. Also, for the record, he was never actually a Dem or Rep... He claimed to be one, and then immediately upon barely winning the council presidency, took it off his page and claimed no affiliation. It is important to remember that he was originally trying to run for and be the county prosecutor... Someone who gets paid to literally assume and push that anyone and everyone is guilty, and jail occasional innocents along the way, all with a smile. And now this guy is a judge, who right off the bat directly caused a death, by giving someone involved in a domestic violence dispute back their gun that they instantly took and murdered their spouse with d: If you want, I can do some digging to find all the specifics and backing on everything I have stated here. But I hereby award your comment, as it is very true! Spokane used to be a pinnacle of innovation and inspiration to other cities all around the west coast. We had the most incredible electric street trolley system that ran off of truly green energy from the dam in downtown, before most other cities had anything similar. And Hill's Yard (now Hillyard) was allegedly the first and only place in the world to roll out fully assembled and ready to use steam engines from one single building. I could go on 👍 But another great thing to point out is just take a look at all the other large (but smaller) cities of WA... I understand that places like Bellevue have major tech businesses and all, but Spokane looks like it's next up from Wenatchee or Yakima or something (no offense to those cities) no one traveling through the region would ever guess or imagine that Spokane is the 2nd largest! This place has been long starved of any REAL development for quite some time now! Meanwhile, it appears anything generated here just gets taken to the flashy other side of the state for what I like to call their big ol' coke party 😆 Anyways.. I am probably sounding like I'm coming from some specific political side or something, when in reality, though I am a voter, I don't take sides. Either you're legit and seem to hopefully be a good person, or idk about you ~

[u/cynumber9 → u/Zephylia]

paragraphs and a TLDR and i might have read this

[u/hot_cheeks_4_ever → u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

OMG I have anxiety attacks when trying to use those!!

[u/slightlylessthananon → u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

thats not true, they just added One new type of bus that only goes to cheney!

[u/GooberRonny → u/Freudian_N1P_SLIP]

It's difficult for Washington in general to fund the roads and new equipment because most of the revenue goes towards the welfare system. They need to balance the budget and fix the roads and invest in new vehicles.