By Deon Roberts, Online Editor
What the French Quarter will smell like next month is up in the air.
This week, Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s administration told SDT Waste & Debris Services to stop the “Disney-like” cleaning of the French Quarter at the end of this month. The administration says the cash-strapped city can’t afford the pressure-washing and other enhanced cleaning services.
But the services might continue after all, albeit at a reduced level, according to news reports. The City Council is expected to discuss the future of city sanitation today. Nagin and three council members met Wednesday to discuss a plan that might allow the enhanced cleaning to continue in a scaled-down way, according to a story in The Times-Picayune.
Some business owners and tourism officials apparently do not like the idea of cutting back cleaning services in the Quarter.
According to a posting on the blog The Secret Diary of Sidney Torres IV, a tongue-in-cheek-blog, the city would never do away with the enhanced cleaning.
“People have become accustomed to the cleanliness and don’t want to go back to the days when Bourbon Street had a repulsive smell of stale beer, tourist puke, crap, and urine,” the posting says.•
2 responses so far ↓
Omus // Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 4:35 pm |
Um, Sherlock? The blog you link to is a fake.
Rathna // Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 3:34 am |
Offcourse future of city sanitation is very important for peoples health. As peoples are well accustomed to cleanliness I dont feel they will rever back.So there is nothing wrong in spending little for city’s sanitation.