The cleaning of Gaviota took two days, this was mostly because of two locations. The majority of the street was cleaner than the first time I cleaned it. By the U-Haul Station and the Church Parking lot south of 14th it was much worse. The second picture filled up 1/2 of a 32 gallon trash bag.
Next week, we will be cleaning 15th heading East to Junipero. We';ll stop when I get tired as that will be the first time we've cleaned that side of the MacArthur Park Neighborhood.
Anybody who wants to join in, meet at 15th and Cherry just south of the doughnut shop.
Okay, this clean up took a little longer than I had hoped, but Walnut Ave is clean again from PCH to Anaheim Street. The picture above shows how much trash was taken off the street this morning. The center shows how much trash can be left behind by a single vendor. Every flyer you see above is from the LA Gaviota Market on Anaheim and Gaviota. And that doesn't even include their flyers that came from south of 14th street.
When you multiply that by how many streets are in our neighborhood, you can clearly see how one market can make a huge difference, positive or negative. So far I have asked every business with an email address to take the city's anti litter pledge.
I am again asking every business in the MacArthur Park Neighborhood to follow this link, and agree to keep Long Beach and their neighborhood clean.
There were some pleasant surprises in today's clean up. Several street signs reported as damaged or tagged were fixed. The most important was the school sign next to Whittier Elementary that had the residue of gang tagging and looked like it was from a Mad Max film. Both that sign and a crooked and tagged one way sign were fixed almost as soon as they were reported.
One of the reasons Walnut takes so long is the street is well taken care of north of 14th street. Then after 14th street, specifically next to some of the larger apartments, it starts to look like the above before and after section. That little stretch of land, takes more than an hour to clean that thoroughly.
Next week, we will be cleaning 17th street from Orange to Gardenia on 05/23/2015. The meeting spot will be 17th and Orange at 10am. The clean up schedule is listed here.
